Curious if there is anything current for this. I have been reading the forums but nothing really posted except one it seems that isnt being updated. Its been awhile since ive had an android tablet and was excited to at least get some rooting and customizations going. I missed it from all my evo days lol.
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Hey guys,
after looking around the interwebz for a few days, this looks like one of the best spots to sit on and learn from. I have had my evo from launch and it is fully updated. Recently, i have heard much talk about full rooting and froyo coming soon officially.
I am new to "hacking" phones. not sure if thats the correct word but i "hack" or have fun (not the bad way) on computers and used to on xbox360.
could someone please point me in the right direction?
The only reason i ask this is because i have seen several rooting tutorials that are not identical so i was curious if one is better than the others.
This is not a q and a forum. There is one butter this is not it. I suggest reading a lot more and then formulating a real question. There isn't a best method that is why there is more then one.
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Do toastcfh root part 1 then unlock nand part 2. this is the best and official way to root in my opinion. And its really not that hard. But I think theres a few new ones floating around that are even easier! My honest opinion is to just read, and then read some more. And when your done reading, read even more! Youll be sooo surprised how much you will learn in this forum!
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Hey guys,
after looking around the interwebz for a few days, this looks like one of the best spots to sit on and learn from. I have had my evo from launch and it is fully updated. Recently, i have heard much talk about full rooting and froyo coming soon officially.
I am new to "hacking" phones. not sure if thats the correct word but i "hack" or have fun (not the bad way) on computers and used to on xbox360.
could someone please point me in the right direction?
The only reason i ask this is because i have seen several rooting tutorials that are not identical so i was curious if one is better than the others.
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if you've appplied the latest OTA update (1.47.651.1), then you have to wait for dev. to come up with ways to unlock it (root). if you did not update the OTA then using toast method 1 and 2 would work fine....
If you found this site, you are already pointed in the right direction.
Don't take personally, since obvisouly I don't know you, but if you can't follow the guides here you really should not mess with your phone.
I do understand (90% sure) most of the terms and processes for rooting. I do have the latest update (1.47.651.1). So i guess ill have to wait until another root for this version.
Is there a certain time gap between update and root for current update that i should wait to look for. i know people come up with the root so its not exact time gap. im more asking does it usually take closer to a week or like a month. just so i can keep it in the back of my head
Hello! I've never messed around with a phone before, but I have a couple of questions I was hoping to get some help with. I currently have an HTC Touch Pro and am seriously considering upgrading to the EVO. I understand that EVO isn't going to be getting Android 2.2 until later in the year. If I root the phone, can I upgrade to whatever the Android version is out? I really like some of the 2.2 features; I've read that it has the potential to speed things up on the phone considerably and that sounds great!
Also, are there any areas where very basic things like roms and rooting are explained? I've looked over some of the rooting tutorials and feel like I can follow them, but I'd like to have some sort of understanding as to what I'm actually doing.
Thanks for the help!
Me too! I'm coming from the pre.
That's a lot to answer in one post.... but here we go!
If you root you can flash a Rom that has 2.2, but its not working 100%, close but a few more things are being worked out. I think I can confidently say that the devs are working hard and should have 2.2 done before HTC gets it to you! There are many roms that drastically improve performance which are 2.1, and they work very well.
As for your second question, that is a bit more lengthy. At the top of this forum is a post with some links in it for guides and tutorials. If you haven't read those you should do so. Use the Google cache links while the wiki is down.
Basically what you are doing when you root your phone, is you are going through a bunch of procedures to allow you the user, to obtain super user permissions over the entire system. That leads to a bunch of new thing you can do with the system: flash roms, custom recoveries, backups,tethering, custom kernels... so much I can't explain it all! Lol
Here is some info on rooting and custom roms, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701245
There's a lot more in the EVO 4G Android development forum.
You can browse around in there and find ALOT more info there.
But, like was mentioned, 2.2 isn't officially available if you root your phone. YOu can flash a custom ROM of 2.2 but it's not fully functional. I believe the camera doesn't work, 4G is questionable, and I think the mms function is not working either.
Great! Thanks for all the info! I just bought the EVO yesterday and I love it. I'll have to think about rooting as I get familiar with the phone.
Thanks again!
Hey guys, sorry if this has already been brought up or not. If this has, I'm very sorry but it's early in the morning and I had a bad dream, lol.
I'm excited about the official GB update and I know the actual OTA update has everything working, like the brightness and camcorder working, but I got an email from Evo Hacks and they mentioned the rooting method being different. I really don't feel like dealing with all that. I'm dealing with a lot of medical issues and haven't really been feeling very well lately. I'm too excited and can't stand having too late anymore.
I know there are many ROMs out there running the update already but I've also seen things about brightness problems and camcorder controls not working. Can anybody tell me if there are any ROMs that have EVERYTHING working and would be sweet to start off with? I'd like to find one really stacked with goodies like sd speed tweak and definitely the camcorder working. I don't know if I could live without it, lol.
Once again, I apologize if I sound lazy, that's not the case at all. Thanks everyone, I do appreciate it.
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What you're looking for doesn't exist yet, in a full release. There are some Beta's, but you have to give the Dev's more than a day to cook up something that's fully functional, tested, re-tested, bugs worked out, etc....
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What you're looking for doesn't exist yet, in a full release. There are some Beta's, but you have to give the Dev's more than a day to cook up something that's fully functional, tested, re-tested, bugs worked out, etc....
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I remember skimming through the development forum, the night it was released, and I know there were several new ROMs launched that evening. I was in such a hurry that I wasn't paying attention as to whether or not any of them were fully functional. I don't really have time to check right now but I could have swore that there was at least one. Who knows with my memory these days, lol.
I just figured I'd throw the question out there. If there aren't, maybe once some are released fully functional, somebody will remember about my thread and give me a heads up.
Ok, so I was one of the lucky few with a gen2 device that was not getting the ICS update. I tried to scan for the update probably 50 times yesterday with no luck. After seeing that others where having the same problem I got frustrated, I flashed the update Zeronull posted in the developers forums. Worked great.
My question is now what exactly is to be gained from the whole process of rooting/unlocking/loading CM9, and some custom roms. I am not new to hacking hardware/software, but I am fairly new to android so I don't really understand what I am gaining from the gamble.
My tab is mainly a family device so there is some added risk with my 4 year old, and wife having root access to my tab. Not sure that is a great idea or not. So once I decide if I want/need CM9 how secure is it from the rest of the family bricking it after the fact?
The only thing in the developers side that really catches my eye is cossix swap mod. I am surprised no one has rolled that into a rom yet. Anyways, if that is all I am really looking to gain is the CM9 path worth it for me?
Basically after re-reading this I am just fairly clueless about CM9. Can anyone with some experience clue a brother in? What is it exactly that I am missing?
Thanks,
I hate to bump my on post, but I was hoping to get a few opinions on this before I let it die.
I remember months ago, like august of last year someone had ported a working version of webos over to the galaxy nexus and said something like there would be many more features in the coming weeks, but now I can't seem to find a single build or ROM at all. What ever happened to it? It was very interesting looking and I'd love to give it a go, but it seems to have fallen off the face of the web. Anybody know of a ROM or any progress at all on it? Thank in advance.
still looks like a long way to go sadly
http://webos-ports.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus_Alpha_Goals
(when i posted this the "list" link on that page is down, but a few weeks ago there were perhaps 100 different things that needed doing/fixing from little things to big things like "get sms to work" and so on)
I wish people would just think for one second before making threads.
A Google search for webos port to galaxy nexus leads immediately to the link posted right above me showing that even minor effort can find out these answers.
Nothing personal by it just pointing out how useful searching is.
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I wish people would just think for one second before making threads.
A Google search for webos port to galaxy nexus leads immediately to the link posted right above me showing that even minor effort can find out these answers.
Nothing personal by it just pointing out how useful searching is.
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I did search Google, and went through probably 10 different pages of things, non of which were updated past last year. Hence why I thought I would come here since this is where the devs are and ask directly. I am not above searching for answers, but when searching turns up only results that are months old and no updated posts, why not post and ask? Is that not the point of a q&a forum?
Edit: not to mention I believe that page us specific to the gsm nexus, whereas I am on Verizon nexus.