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ok so I exchanged two evo's yesterday they both came stock with the ota 1.47 I Was able to Root and Nand ONE!! no issues went right thru in 10 minutes using ota method.
Try the second one and I can't get this thing to nand unlock for the life of me. I have ROOT access no matter what I try from Formatting the SD card to trying every and any pc3 file I can find and I either get MAIN VERSION is older or Bootloader checks the file then goes back to the main bootloader screen and does nothing.
I am able to flash roms of course except those that require nand unlocked. So I currently have software version 1.32.651.1 release keys
WHAT am I doing wrong?
If you posted in the "Question" and Answer (Q&A) section you'd probably get more help. This section is for the development of software, roms, and fixes.
spiicytuna said:
If you posted in the "Question" and Answer (Q&A) section you'd probably get more help. This section is for the development of software, roms, and fixes.
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Your probably right. But since all the rooting methods are here made sense to post here. Mods can move it if they wish thanks
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Your probably right. But since all the rooting methods are here made sense to post here. Mods can move it if they wish thanks
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Unless your posting something you developed or talking about working on a group development/fix, it doesn't really make sense to post in development. Best of luck with a fix though.
Well apparentlyits getting a bit of attention here you two came in and looked. But thanks for the constructive on the point advice lmao.
As a side note I solvedthe issue using the three step easy root. I will link to it later when I get home
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706411
There it is
I guess I got a little bit too hyped about ICS and tried to update my SPH-D710 with a nice little tutorial. It worked pretty well until I realized that the modem/wifi/home button (and who knows how much more) don't work. No big deal right? I found the stock firmware and powered up Odin... Except my phone is no longer recognized by ANY computer. I've tried XP, Vista, 7 (32 and 64). I've installed the drivers or Kies and played with every combination I could find... but absolutely NO love.
I can boot into the up-home-power screen that looks like it would allow me to load firmware off an SD card, but I can't seem to get that to work. Is this phone completely screwed?
no you aren't completely screwed. if you can do all that there is hope. there is a couple threads by viperboy about ics. many people who jave been able to turn it on and all that have recovered. either find the threads or ask him. you are very lucky dude.
I've been looking thru viperboy's posts and can't seem to find anything that really applies to me. Is it weird that the clockwork screen won't let me pull anything off the MicroSD? I feel like I've run completely out of options here.
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I've been looking thru viperboy's posts and can't seem to find anything that really applies to me. Is it weird that the clockwork screen won't let me pull anything off the MicroSD? I feel like I've run completely out of options here.
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Wait, so you do have a custom recovery installed (CWM).
I think so... It's "android system recovery 3e"... It doesn't detect my SD card though for whatever reason... just gives me "failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)". Is there a certain file system the SD card needs to be formatted with? It's currently Fat32.
in the ics thread from viper in general. lots of people flashed it then wanted to go back. I'm unsure of what they did aa I have never didi it. but I know they got back up and running. maybe the uk drivers idk. but the still is hope dude.
How does this happen? People need to start paying more attention when flashing. You have a $500 phone. How did u flash this rom? By recovery or Odin? If u used Odin it worse cause that means u flashed the international bootloaders and u will need the drivers so your computer can recognize it. Let us know what steps u took.
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I think so... It's "android system recovery 3e"... It doesn't detect my SD card though for whatever reason... just gives me "failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)". Is there a certain file system the SD card needs to be formatted with? It's currently Fat32.
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No you do not have a custom recovery... What you are describing is the android stock recovery. You are not going to be able to flash anything with that. My suggestion would be to get Mobile Odin. Since your radio is not working, you will not be able to download it from the market, thus you will have to get the .apk to an external memory card. Then install it that way. After that, then download a stock tar file to the card. Flash with the mobile odin and Viola you should be up and running.
Exactly what I needed to hear. Appreciate the help!
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Exactly what I needed to hear. Appreciate the help!
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No worries, good-luck
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Actually shredder once you get mobile odin up and running. I would flash a custom recovery/kernel next. Here's a link to Rogue's recovery/kernel. Download the odin tar file. Then flash the file via mobile odin. This will give you a custom recovery. Once you have this, you can then use the rogue recovery to flash a new stock ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341564
First prob is you will need root for mobile Odin. Second is you can not achieve root with file you flashed. I have helped out others in this same situation. Both phones that boot and ones that wont boot. All have ended unsuccessfully. The only way sofar is either Jtag service or play dumb at your local sprint store. I will post some example threads and jtag links for ya. BrB.
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First prob is you will need root for mobile Odin. Second is you can not achieve root with file you flashed. I have helped out others in this same situation. Both phones that boot and ones that wont boot. All have ended unsuccessfully. The only way sofar is either Jtag service or play dumb at your local sprint store. I will post some example threads and jtag links for ya. BrB.
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Your right... I just figure everyone's already rooted around here.
Hey Indrid, so there is no way to achieve root with what he flashed.
Go to mobiletechvideos.com and have josh j tag your phone for the record our phone is SPH-D710
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Links for ya.[URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416167"]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416167[/URL]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1434369
I think on the second page of ICS port gone wrong. There is a link for Jtag from mobiletechvideos. Or sumthin like that.
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Your right... I just figure everyone's already rooted around here.
Hey Indrid, so there is no way to achieve root with what he flashed.
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Negative as far.
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What a *****! Thanks a lot for the help guys. I'm on a corp account so hopefully our rep will help me out without too much of a hassle.
Definitely was one of the dumbest things I've ever done, it never occurred to me that there were such drastically different "Galaxy S2" phones!
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What a *****! Thanks a lot for the help guys. I'm on a corp account so hopefully our rep will help me out without too much of a hassle.
Definitely was one of the dumbest things I've ever done, it never occurred to me that there were such drastically different "Galaxy S2" phones!
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If it's a company phone, find a large magnet, rub it all over the phone, then call your rep. I have had to call in atleast a dozen warranty replacements at my job because the end user carried their phone into an MRI room (We own/partner with diagnostic imaging centers). Our corporate rep had no issues with warranty replacements. However I will let you know this now. If your rep is a third party company, Sprint changed their policy on how third parties have to handle warranty replacements. Once the replacement is submitted, it must be handled 100% by the actual Sprint Rep, the third party rep is nolonger permitted to process warranty replacements.
Definitely was one of the dumbest things I've ever done, it never occurred to me that there were such drastically different "Galaxy S2" phones![/QUOTE]
Yeah very diff. And the epic touch is kinda like the redheaded step child. Buuut it is still the best of all the SGS2 variants. Mali all the way babby.
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Definitely was one of the dumbest things I've ever done, it never occurred to me that there were such drastically different "Galaxy S2" phones!
Yeah very diff. And the epic touch is kinda like the redheaded step child. Buuut it is still the best of all the SGS2 variants. Mali all the way babby.
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Aha! So your speaking from experience Indrid?
Sorry for the bad news. Just for reference if it's not in the epic 4g touch development section do not flash it.
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Aha! So your speaking from experience Indrid?
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No not on my et4g .But I did do this on a vibrant but there is a way to force a brick. Then you can start back from scratch. It's called eugene's froyo that does not brick. But it does soft brick the phone and resets the bootloader. This is what is needed for the et4g. I am in talks with other dev's from the vibrant forums to try and get one a phone.
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No I tried to quote the OP. But I screwd it up. The top sentence is from the OP.LoL.
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Sorry for the bad news. Just for reference if it's not in the epic 4g touch development section do not flash it.
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No not on my et4g .But I did do this on a vibrant but there is a way to force a brick. Then you can start back from scratch. It's called eugene's froyo that does not brick. But it does soft brick the phone and resets the bootloader. This is what is needed for the et4g. I am in talks with other dev's from the vibrant forums to try and get one a phone.
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No I tried to quote the OP. But I screwd it up. The top sentence is from the OP.LoL.
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Ok now I see
I did some forum searching & Googling but I'm not able to find a reliable, working method of getting CWM recovery on the Note II. I want to keep the stock ROM, but not the stock recovery. I'm rooted with stock recovery right now.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
look harder. Perhaps find a thread talking about root in the at&t noteII general forum.
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look harder. Perhaps find a thread talking about root in the at&t noteII general forum.
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"look harder"? That doesn't help me much. I used that "search in this forum" feature, where I typed in "clockworkmod" and came up with no results. A threat talking about rooting doesn't necessarily mean it will discuss CWM (I also checked the thread here for information on CWM, since that's the root method I used, but no dice). Not really sure which thread you want me to play hide & seek with.
Sorry to say but the person who responded to you is right... look for a thread that contains root for the note II
Really? You want to root your phone, but you are incapable of following simple directions? I did everything but give you a direct link to the thread. I told you which forum, which subforum, and a keyword to look for in the thread title.
If you aren't able to handle it, please DO NOT root your device and please DO NOT install a non-stock recovery.
Edit...im sorry guys...I want to keep this place pleasant and friendly.
I googled it and found it here and on the site I quoted.
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Here...I dont want to to see this forum to go to $***. Consider this my last spoon feed for the week.
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Fine - YOU support him if/when he screws it up.
Lets see if I even get a thanks... from the OP.
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Nevermind...youre right Gary...I shouldn't do it.
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Really? You want to root your phone, but you are incapable of following simple directions? I did everything but give you a direct link to the thread. I told you which forum, which subforum, and a keyword to look for in the thread title.
If you aren't able to handle it, please DO NOT root your device and please DO NOT install a non-stock recovery.
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No one is forcing you to help me, if you are going to be rude just kindly ignore me and move on. Also I don't need you to worry about my device, I can handle it just fine.
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No one is forcing you to help me, if you are going to be rude just kindly ignore me and move on. Also I don't need you to worry about my device, I can handle it just fine.
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Which part about my post is rude? I think you might be misinterpreting...
I'm very serious that if you are unable to find the post with the information you want based on the instructions I gave, that you have a high risk of screwing up your phone by flashing stuff on it. That's not being rude. That's trying to be helpful. Asking you to PLEASE not flash your phone is so I (and others like myself) don't have to spend the time trying to help you fix your phone afterwards (and so you don't have to spend the time asking for that help.)
Not everything on these forums is spelled out and spoon-fed to users. It's assumed that they have a certain amount of innate ability and prior knowledge. Lack of that ability and knowledge results in broken phones. I'm trying to help someone like that in another thread - they flashed the wrong thing to their phone and now, basically, they are screwed.
Granted, I might not come off as "newbie friendly" or even "user friendly." I'm an engineer. I'm one of the folks that make the things that people like you flash. For some reason people like me don't usually come off as being "nice."
I'm going to try (again) to be nice. Here's a link to a post I think it'd be good for you to read. This post tries to explain in a different way what I'm trying to say here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2031989&postcount=45
I suspect that if/when you understand that post, you'll better understand my replies.
take care and good luck
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Thanks, it's sometimes hard to read tone on here, so i apologize for any misunderstandings.
I think i have a really bad time finding information, not because I'm a newbie at flashing, but probably more so due to the fact that development in this phone is so fresh, there isn't much information to centralize yet. But once i find the information i need i can usually handle the work involved.
I ended up finding the post you were talking about (well, i can only assume). Unfortunately i didn't find a walkthrough or step by step instructions. But at least i know a better place to find the information.
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Does it have to be cwm? Because for rooting, chainfire has cf root. And for recovery, twrp already supports our device. It's all in the original development sub forum. Won't be hard to find either. Those two things are the only threads existent there for now
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Does it have to be cwm? Because for rooting, chainfire has cf root. And for recovery, twrp already supports our device. It's all in the original development sub forum. Won't be hard to find either. Those two things are the only threads existent there for now
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Actually, that's a good idea. I had used the CWM Recovery originally on my i317, but found that when I tried to restore a backup I made with it, that nothing was actually restored. TWRP, on the other hand, seems to work okay backing up and restoring.
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Actually, that's a good idea. I had used the CWM Recovery originally on my i317, but found that when I tried to restore a backup I made with it, that nothing was actually restored. TWRP, on the other hand, seems to work okay backing up and restoring.
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Twrp has come a long way. To be fully honest, I kinda hated it at first, I don't even have a clue why, since I didn't try it prior to forming those feelings about it. But then I actually got to flash it, after some self convincing, on my s2 lte and it grew on me very quickly. And now, I prefer it over cwm
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If you need exFAT then use CWM which comes with CF_root which you can find the Original Dev forums. Use Odin,click on PDA then select the CF-Root.*.att file. It's that easy.
One thing about TWRP is that it doesn't support exFAT formatted SDCards, so if you have a 64GB like most folks on here & need exFAT for larger than 4GB file size, then CWM is the only way to go.
I think i may just wait a bit until more options become available. I don't need it right away. I'd rather sick with CWM since that is what I'm familiar with.
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I think i may just wait a bit until more options become available. I don't need it right away. I'd rather sick with CWM since that is what I'm familiar with.
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That's entirely up to you. Although I would suggest giving twrp a go, even just to try it out. My favorite features in it are the option to name your backup in recovery prior to creating it, and the fact that it actually does things faster than cwm
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Since this thread is going nowhere, but south...
Thread closed.
XDA Members,
I am pretty new to the world of Smartphones. My first Android was a T-Mobile G2 and I have recently upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S-III (also through T-Mobile). One of the initial things I did was update it to Android 4.1.1 via a T-Mobile OTA update. I then rooted the device using this method and it worked like a absolute charm. Today I discovered a Sim Unlock thread here on XDA and couldn't resist following the instructions as I like to have absolute control over the technology I purchase.
My next step would be a Custom ROM like Cyanogen I reckon. However I have some questions and will decide based off of your answers here if it actually a step I want to take. I have concerns about functionality, the benefits, and drawbacks. Hopefully your answers here will be enough to calm my nerves on this as I feel it'd be a very big step. So without further delay here are my preliminary questions:
1) How polished in Cynagen for the Samsung Galaxy S3? Are there a lot of bugs, errors, and the like? Is it running Android 4.1.1, Android 4.1.2, or Android 4.2.1?
2) If I switch over to the Cynoagen ROM in place of the stock firmware currently on my GS3 will I notice a performance increase or decrease in terms of speed, memory consumption, and related variables?
3) What functionality and/or features are missing from Cyanogen in comparison to the stock firmware? Specifically let's talk about camera functionality. The camera functionality in the stock firmware is pretty solid. Can I expect the same level of functionality from Cynaogen? If no then what is missing and/or different?
4) I do not have an SDCARD yet. If I move to Cyanogen can I swap back to the stock Samsung/T-Mobile variant of Android 4.1.1 easily and without too much difficulty?
5) What are the benefits and drawbacks to using Cyanogen over the stock ROM? Can you please enlighten me as to why using an aftermarket ROM is so popular?
This is just a series of preliminary questions. I inquired on the official Cyanogen community forums but getting responses is proving to be more difficult than I originally anticipated. I am hoping to have significantly better luck on these forums.
1)
We have stable cm10
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Exactly the opposite
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Camera is awesome
You lose a few of the touchwiz tricks like the phone stays on while you're looking at it, etc.
I have s voice on my cm10 nightly, s memo, etc. Just download from apps and accessories section
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Just follow the instructions in the stickies of the dev section
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Your phone can't do what mine can do
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We have stable cm10
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Exactly the opposite
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Camera is awesome
You lose a few of the touchwiz tricks like the phone stays on while you're looking at it, etc.
I have s voice on my cm10 nightly, s memo, etc. Just download from apps and accessories section
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Just follow the instructions in the stickies of the dev section
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Your phone can't do what mine can do
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Could you be a little more specific and in-depth with your answers?
I'm really on the fence about rooting right now, i want to because i want to play all the games with an xbox or ps3 controller, also i only have the 16 gb and didn't realise there isn't apps to sd so 'd like to do the trick to get my sd card to read as internal memory but i have a hard time with the fact that you lose warranty when i have replaced many phones in the past from t-mobile. The technical side scares me in the possibilty of bricking my phone. What was your thought process on that? The warranty thing really scares me like i said because i have literally replaced about a dozen phones through customer care.
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I'm really on the fence about rooting right now, i want to because i want to play all the games with an xbox or ps3 controller, also i only have the 16 gb and didn't realise there isn't apps to sd so 'd like to do the trick to get my sd card to read as internal memory but i have a hard time with the fact that you lose warranty when i have replaced many phones in the past from t-mobile. The technical side scares me in the possibilty of bricking my phone. What was your thought process on that? The warranty thing really scares me like i said because i have literally replaced about a dozen phones through customer care.
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Follow the guide I linked in my original post about rooting your T-Mobile Galaxy S3. It's VERY SIMPLE to do using that method. Watch the included YouTube video and then follow the guide carefully. Trust me it's totally worth it. You won't brick your phone if you follow that guide I linked. It's just so easy to do.
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I'm really on the fence about rooting right now, i want to because i want to play all the games with an xbox or ps3 controller, also i only have the 16 gb and didn't realise there isn't apps to sd so 'd like to do the trick to get my sd card to read as internal memory but i have a hard time with the fact that you lose warranty when i have replaced many phones in the past from t-mobile. The technical side scares me in the possibilty of bricking my phone. What was your thought process on that? The warranty thing really scares me like i said because i have literally replaced about a dozen phones through customer care.
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If you're too scared to root or flash any roms than just stay on stock. If you follow all the instructions correctly then you got nothing to worry about. I've rooted everyone's phone in my household(we all have different ones) out of boredom lol but I followed the instructions and had 0 issues. Yes you lose your warranty if you root or install a custom rom but it's very easy to revert back to stock in case you need to for warranty purposes.
And for the guy asking about CM10 just try it out and see if you like it or head to the CM10 thread and read up on it. You'll lose most of the touchwiz features but there are some other roms based off touchwiz
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If you're too scared to root or flash any roms than just stay on stock. If you follow all the instructions correctly then you got nothing to worry about. I've rooted everyone's phone in my household(we all have different ones) out of boredom lol but I followed the instructions and had 0 issues. Yes you lose your warranty if you root or install a custom rom but it's very easy to revert back to stock in case you need to for warranty purposes.
And for the guy asking about CM10 just try it out and see if you like it or head to the CM10 thread and read up on it. You'll lose most of the touchwiz features but there are some other roms based off touchwiz
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I've been reading it over but I would honest prefer some straight answers to my questions. I'm more of a direct person. Reading can only answer so much.
Caliburn said:
I've been reading it over but I would honest prefer some straight answers to my questions. I'm more of a direct person. Reading can only answer so much.
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Just try it out and see if you like it. Make a nandroid backup of your current rom in case you wanna switch back
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Just try it out and see if you like it. Make a nandroid backup of your current rom in case you wanna switch back
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What is a Nandroid Backup? Could you offer me a link? Sorry I am really new to this. Rooting and unlocking is the furthest I've ever gone before. Baby steps here. I'd like to know the potential of me possibly being satisfied before making this leap. Lol.
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What is a Nandroid Backup? Could you offer me a link? Sorry I am really new to this. Rooting and unlocking is the furthest I've ever gone before. Baby steps here. I'd like to know the potential of me possibly being satisfied before making this leap. Lol.
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It's a backup of your entire phone that you can restore anytime. If you flash cm and don't like it, you can restore to whatever you had before without losing any of your data. It'll be exactly the way it was before you flashed cm.
here's a link I found on google: http://www.vikitech.com/10347/perform-nandroid-backup-restore-android-device
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It's a backup of your entire phone that you can restore anytime. If you flash cm and don't like it, you can restore to whatever you had before without losing any of your data. It'll be exactly the way it was before you flashed cm.
here's a link I found on google: http://www.vikitech.com/10347/perform-nandroid-backup-restore-android-device
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Can I do this without an SDCARD? And... how do I get Clockwork again to do such a backup? I thought it may still be there after I rooted but its not?
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Can I do this without an SDCARD? And... how do I get Clockwork again to do such a backup? I thought it may still be there after I rooted but its not?
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Download ROM Manager from the playstore and it should flash clockwork for you just follow the instructions they provide and yes it should save it to the phones internal memory if you don't have an external sd card
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Download ROM Manager from the playstore and it should flash clockwork for you just follow the instructions they provide and yes it should save it to the phones internal memory if you don't have an external sd card
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Okay awesome. Once I do that I obviously transfer the backup to my PC for safe keeping. What Cyanogen should I install? Latest Stable or nightly? Like I said I am a total noob to this.
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Okay awesome. Once I do that I obviously transfer the backup to my PC for safe keeping. What Cyanogen should I install? Latest Stable or nightly? Like I said I am a total noob to this.
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You might encounter a few more bugs if you flash a nightly so I would probably go with stable just to test it out
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You might encounter a few more bugs if you flash a nightly so I would probably go with stable just to test it out
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Okay. Can you give me relevant links please? Install guide for Cyanogen, etc? You've been a huge help to me so far.
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Okay. Can you give me relevant links please? Install guide for Cyanogen, etc? You've been a huge help to me so far.
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first make sure you back up your imei. A few people have lost theirs when flashing roms and not just the T-mobile variants all the SIII's have had this problem. Check out this thread on how to do that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29461950
the cyanogen thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778217
download link for stable cm: http://get.cm/?device=d2tmo&type=stable
guide to flashing roms: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946701
just read the threads and they should answer most of the questions you have
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first make sure you back up your imei. A few people have lost theirs when flashing roms and not just the T-mobile variants all the SIII's have had this problem. Check out this thread on how to do that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29461950
the cyanogen thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778217
download link for stable cm: http://get.cm/?device=d2tmo&type=stable
guide to flashing roms: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946701
just read the threads and they should answer most of the questions you have
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Thank you! What is an IMEI exactly? What does it do? I am reading the thread now but...
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Thank you! What is an IMEI exactly? What does it do? I am reading the thread now but...
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It's like your phone's serial #. If your phone gets stolen or something your service provider can block it from being used on their network thanks to the imei. Unfortunately it can get reset to 0 due to some minor bug that the SIII's have. If it gets set to 0 you wont be able to connect to tmobile's network. Luckily if that happens you can fix it by following the instructions on that thread. It's happened to me once and I was able to restore it without any issues.
j_smith305 said:
It's like your phone's serial #. If your phone gets stolen or something your service provider can block it from being used on their network thanks to the imei. Unfortunately it can get reset to 0 due to some minor bug that the SIII's have. If it gets set to 0 you wont be able to connect to tmobile's network. Luckily if that happens you can fix it by following the instructions on that thread. It's happened to me once and I was able to restore it without any issues.
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It it common or rare that this happens?
Caliburn said:
It it common or rare that this happens?
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Pretty rare I guess. It happens randomly so it's always safe to have your imei backed up in case it ever does happen. I've flashed several roms including cyanogenmod without any issues and I've only lost it once randomly but I was able to restore it without any problems
Hello,
Navigating around I have found one rooting method for the N1.
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Cannot play with it since until Mid April I will not have an N1. Hope that more people in XDA get this tablet to start working with it.
That site looks quite scammy to me. Please dont post links that you have not verified that they work.
syddd said:
That site looks quite scammy to me. Please dont post links that you have not verified that they work.
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That POST just says to use Root Genius to provide root. If you search Root Genius on XDA you will see that it has been successfully used on other devices. Don't know if it has been really tested, maybe it even is scammy. However, it is a first step that I will try whenever I have my hands on one N1.
It is just the only place ive found with information on just rooting the N1. Hope there are some more as more people tests the tablet.
That site is an auto generated linkbait. They just enter that phones name and generate hundreds of loookalike pages. Root genius looks scammy too, likely it's a few root apps like Towelroot packaged with some malware. Try to download root genius from its official site with Chrome, it will block the site because its marked malicious. If there is really a root method it will not appear on some no name site, it will be on a high traffic forum like this.
Read the Chinese forums they are waiting for root too. ( https://translate.google.com/transl...gfan.com/forum-1616-1.html&edit-text=&act=url )
I tried this method some weeks ago (with Root Genius) and IT DOES NOT WORK.
Please, don't post this links without check before.
Also I've tested Kingo Root, it does not work either.