Hello everyone! Some time ago I rooted my phone + used custom Leedroid ROM. Unfortunately I forgot how did I do that and right now I am expiriencing some problems with my phone. I would love to update my phone. I am considering to change the ROM too. Right now my phone uses android 7.0 so i would like to update that. I have the TWRP recovery installed but probably outdated version.
Could anyone help me please to get through this without my phone getting messed up? I am little bit lost in these kernel, ROM and recovery words.
I can provide any information required about the phone.
Don't open questions in the rom development section, has nothing to do here.
1) update TWRP (plenty of tutorials on how to do this)
2) download ROM of choice
3) flash the ROM in TWRP
Edit: answers in your other thread.
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UPDATE: Ok I done a lot more reading. This looks like the way to go ?
With my current phone ( See Bellow ) this method will be ok to get me Rooted and Recovery installed ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39258099&postcount=1
Yes ..?
Thank you for replies !!
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Hi -
I am sorry if this question bothers some ... but I have looked around (searched) for a day or 2 and learning the do's and don'ts
of Rooting / Installing Recovery / Flashing ROM's for THIS phone (my 5th Android phone). I am pretty familiar with rooting and
running custom recoveries flashing roms and kernels and even a little coding (very little) on many phones and tabs over the past
couple years. But this is a new phone for me. I have used the search forum button, but I keep getting different solutions , or they
are very old and I am not sure they still apply to this phone running 4.0.4
My phone is 2nd hand, but never been rooted. It is 100% stock. It is running fine with my SIM and everything works ... but I need
to ROOT and instal RECOVERY so I can run custom ROM asap. Please help or point me to the correct location to....
Install a RECOVERY (either CWM or TWRP (prefer twrp))
ROOT the phone
Start flashing custom ROMS and Kernels :laugh: (this one I know how)
I see some program called "Odin" but I have never used a PC app to root my stuff in the past ... so yeah I am confused
PLEASE Help me at least with #1 ( Installing recovery ) and #2 ( Get Root )
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Here is exactly what I got.
PHONE: Samsung Galaxy S II ( T-MOBILE VERSION )
MODEL: SGH-T989
ANDROID: 4.0.4
BASEBAND: T989UVLI4
KERNEL: 3.0.8-perf-1190554 [email protected] #1
BUILD: IMM76D.UVLI4
SD-Card: 32 Gig's
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Currently I am running a heavily modded MIUI on a T-Mobile LG G2x P999 and I run Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC.
*Note* I DO NOT CARE if I lose anything that is currently on this new Galaxy phone.
Thank you for at the very lest reading this far !! I ramble on a lot I know. I am looking forward to some helpful replies :fingers-crossed:
Thibor
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That guide will walk you through everything you need to do. Set aside an hour (and a stiff drink) to get through everything. Odin is VIRTUALLY foolproof, don't worry. Like it says the .zip has all you need, I've used it 3 times. I would recommend updating twrp to the latest version when you are done. (2.5.5.0 I think) goo manager is probably the easiest way. Good luck!
T989D
latest CM10.1 nightly
latest Uber nightly
UPDATE: So, I couldn't really wait, went ahead and flashed TWRP. It installed just fine, as long as you get into recovery immediately, TWRP sticks. I flashed SuperSU and rebooted and got into a boot loop, so had to flash the stock firmware again and everything is fine again. No idea why the bootloop, so if some expert knows, please share
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So, T-Mobile/Samsung FINALLY delivered 5.1.1 on the P607T and it looks quite awesome so far. My device was rooted and had twrp, so I had to flash with odin and now have neither twrp nor root. While I know that its only a matter of time before the community updates the tools to make it easy for us to root, I wonder if somebody could tell me if its okay to flash the existing twrp_2.8.7.0_4.4 build on this new ROM?
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that with Lollipop, Android moved to a new FS, but suspect this only applies to the system and boot partitions? That flashing recovery should be fine, and worst case, twrp will not stick? But, just in case, it would be great to know if this is true from someone with more experience ... If yes, then I can try to flash twrp and see if SuperSU still works through ODIN.
Thanks!
Karthik
I tried root/TWRP using the P605 NEE thread method and I get the bootloop. It takes the modified ROM but not the SuperSU. Anyone else get root on P607T 5.1.1 yet?
From what I gather so far, 5.1.1 is rootable, but a bit more complicated than other versions. There are instructions one can follow to 'manually' root (meaning no simple odin flash), but these have not been tested on the Note 10.1 firmware yet and so no guarantees. I am told its just a matter of somebody who knows picking it up and creating a flashable solution, but the device is old and the world has moved on to Android 6.0, so this is not very high priority and we may have to wait a bit more.
The manual instructions, I understand them enough to want to try, BUT am not a developer and am worried about bricking my device! If anybody is brave enough to try,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/supersu/wip-android-6-0-marshmellow-t3219344
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63194536&postcount=2076
should get you started.
Hi guys, been following this awesome community for a while now. I got a OnePlus One and I managed to unlock/root it thx to a thread on this forums (even if I'm not that "pro" with phones), but now I have my father's Xperia M (which has never been unlocked/rooted/flashed or anything) that is updated to Android 4.3 and I need help on how to proper install a custom ROM on it (I'm interested in the ArchiDroid one in particular). I don't like Sony's stock ROM, it's acting badly on some things (video recording for example) and in general it just sucks imho, so I want to upgrade to a custom Lollipop one (ArchiDroid). Can someone kindly explain me all the initial steps I have to take to, at least, install a custom recovery on the phone (possibly the TWRP since I used it for the OPO aswell)? Do i need to unlock the bootloader or something? Thx a lot!
Yes, u need to unlock your bootloader.U can do it through fastboot mode.Detailed information is available on Official Sony's Developer world page. Then flash custom recovery like cwm or twrp.Finally download the zip file and start flashing it.
Yep I managed to do all the stuff just yesterday, but thx anyway! Although it was not easy AT ALL, took me all day and was just a nightmare lol. The phone went immediately in bootloop after unlocking the bootloader, so I had to flash an appropriate firmware with flashtool, and I even had a problem at the very end of the process while trying to install the ROM itself (I choosed the official stock CM 12.1 nightly btw), because CWM was giving a stupid error. Thank god a guy here on the forums reported that CWM has problems with some SDs and posted a method to solve them all (by doing a total format of the SD with a program called SDFormatter).
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Yep I managed to do all the stuff just yesterday, but thx anyway! Although it was not easy AT ALL, took me all day and was just a nightmare lol. The phone went immediately in bootloop after unlocking the bootloader, so I had to flash an appropriate firmware with flashtool, and I even had a problem at the very end of the process while trying to install the ROM itself (I choosed the official stock CM 12.1 nightly btw), because CWM was giving a stupid error. Thank god a guy here on the forums reported that CWM has problems with some SDs and posted a method to solve them all (by doing a total format of the SD with a program called SDFormatter).
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yes, cwm recovery for now is not good for daily use. because they still have old commit. i suggest you to change to TWRP recovery, try look at here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61626285&postcount=1 we've got official support for this recovery:laugh:
Hi guys and girls i am from the uk (england) and got my g4 about 4 months ago.
Fed up of lg's stock rom and how its very laggy and irritating to use now.
I have been looking everywhere about rooting the phone and installing custom roms to make it much better and more enjoyable to use.
But i am stuck i dont know whats the best way of rooting this phone i have tried booting it into stock recovery mode but it just dont work.
so can you guys please point me to a right good method of rooting and installing custom roms please?
Currently using android 5.1 on lg stock rom
Many thanks!
Take it that is a no haha
Well every phone has a different model number so I can be hard I soft bricked my phone were system ui stopped finally got bliss pop running I would go for cyanamod 12 or something
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Take it that is a no haha
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Have you unlocked your bootloader ?
No not too sure how to do that. Any good threads you guys reccomend.
Many thanks
So I know this is scary for you and because it is something new, therefore be sure that you want to live with the responsability if something goes wrong.
Now, the next forum thread tells you how to flash an already rooted image BUT, and this is very important, this works only if you have the version 10c installed (Check in About Phone>Software Version)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/orig-development/root-tmo-vzw-intl-variants-soon-root-lg-t3164765
If you have the latest version of the software (20a) the best thing is to unlock your bootloader, void your warranty in the process, and flash a custom recovery. After that, you just need to flash the SuperSu zip file and you will have root.
To flash custom ROMs, just access recovery and flash the zip file of your ROM.
I'm using the unofficial CM13.0 and works very good for me, but I do miss the official camera app.
Thankyou very much for your advice okarr. Will look into this
So...
I got the tablet coming up on a year ago, and I rooted and installed TWRP immediately.
I'm currently running a stock ROM, and would like to continue to run stock based roms, but I've had issues with the custom kernel I'm running. The skyhigh thread is meager when it comes to details, but it also includes a few cryptic warnings about base and source and boot loader. Because I have no idea which one I'm running, or what to flash in TWRP, I'm in a terrible spot.
Searches, P.M.s and thread posts haven't gotten me anywhere.
Even if I could use Odin, the stock firmware thread, and the TW-Based ROM threads don't include the requirements, how you can test to see if you meet them, and if you don't, how you'd go about letting the requirements for base, etc.
Because of the introduction of threads like the stock firmware thread early on, root and odin methods used obscure FW, and now when selecting a few to download you have to choose between FW from France....from no country at all, or from the made up country of Us Cellular. So again, even if I wanted to broach the idea of Odin back to some semblance of stock, I couldn't.
But I ****desperately need a reflash/wipe/update***
Id like to run ironrom and kernel....
So how would I get there....from here? And preferably with TWRP?
Rooted 5.0.2 with TWRP and a really really old version of sky high.