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No... Sorry I dont.Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
MEMBER @ LTXtech.com
Omg... This class is boring now.
The guys instructing are from another state... Laws are diff...things are diff and do not relate to how zhit works in PA
i keep dozing
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Just ordered the Galaxy Note ii. I now have a phablet or what ever its called. lol
I was just about tobstart a thread asking for help...want to get one... But know nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
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Nice, congrats. Time to root and ROM that baby before you get too far into setting it up! Best time to do it is fresh out of the box lol.
Helped a buddy out and got killer real Filipino food for helping him from his wife... he wondered why his car was running like ass
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LOL. I have no idea how to do any of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
ME NEITHER..i just use my stuff the way its meantQuote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
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Originally Posted by MeanTA
Lol I can easily teach you fellas. And "the way it's meant" is very relative to your opinion on what you should be able to do with your phone. ;) Google built Android with the intent of it being free and open and 100% customizable. Then the dirty phone carriers got their hands on it and locked it all down and put what they want you to have on the phone before selling it. Me personally, I like to rip all that shit out and go with a nice clean and free Android OS without all the excess bloatware and crap. But, that's up to everyone's individual choice! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
Shoot me a PM if you'd like to learn how to root your phone. Samsung Galaxy phones are the easiest ones to root, takes just a few minutes lol. I can take a stock Galaxy phone fresh out of the box and be up and running on a custom ROM in under an hour start to finish. ;)
While we're on the subject, I have a razr that has recently been acting up with horrible service and rebooting on its own. Ever since the ice cream sandwich update its been junk. Do you think if I root it that would cure those problems? I've rooted an ally and x2 before and liked it. But I've heard they put a tattle tale on ICS that shows if its been rooted.
Yeah, but for some phones there are ways of rooting it without tripping the flash counter. Hell, on my SGS2, I was even able to find an app that reset the flash counter to 0 after I was done installing everything I wanted lol. The XDA-Developers forum is your best friend for rooting and ROMing know-how. They have sections broken down into each phone by carrier and such, then general, development, themes, etc. subsections for each phone. I personally have only messed with Samsung Galaxy phones, but there are lots of guys on the XDA forums who will know exactly what's up with your RAZR.Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
My wife's SGS3 was acting up and doing some stupid shit in stock form. I rooted and ROMed it and it fixed most of the issues, but narrowed down a couple of things to faulty hardware. So we took it back to Best Buy and got another one to root and ROM :lol:
I think I should just turn this one for insurance. The screen is cracked where I got weld spatter on it and the speaker sounds like its got a cold. I'll get a new one the root it.
Sounds like a good plan. If you have the insurance on the phone, I say abuse it, especially if it's the Geek Squad protection through Best Buy, since there's no deductible.Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
But if its rooted...it wont do updates....and warranty will be void..right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
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So the developers who create the ROMs push out updates much more often than the carrier does. Depending on the ROM, as in the case of my personal favorite AOKP, they push out updates almost every couple weeks, and there are others that update nightly (if you really wanna be an update whore lol). The beauty of this, though, is that as Google releases the newest and latest and greatest versions of Android, the ROMs tend to get those same updates within days of the update dropping from Google, whereas the carriers like to wait up to a year to push that update out. For example, my SGS4 I just bought came out of the box with Android 4.2.2 thank God. Google just announced that very soon, Android 4.3 will drop to the public. If I were to stick with the stock phone as AT&T sold it, I may see that update sometime around Christmas of 2014 if I'm lucky. If I go with a custom ROM, I can bet you I'd have 4.3 on my phone within a week of it hitting the public. On top of that, custom ROMs like AOKP and such add tons of extra features that, once you have them, are hard to live without that aren't even included in the vanilla Google update.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
As for warranty, it depends on where your warranty is from. If you're through the carrier for warranty, then yes, it voids it. If you did like me and bought from Best Buy Mobile and got the Geek Squad protection, they don't even care. Rooted, ROMed, bricked, broken, whatever, they'll replace it, no questions asked. I know this because I've abused it lol.
That was a very nicley written ROOTING 101 lol....My warranty is thru sprint
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Lol thank you. If your warranty is through Sprint, it's really up to you to risk it or not. If you have a Galaxy phone, they're really easy to flash back to stock (as long as the phone isn't hard-bricked aka hardware dead), which removes all root/ROM/flash counter data. Say you crack your screen, you flash it back to stock (which takes a couple minutes to do), then take it in and boom, warrantied and nobody has a clue. ;) Just always make sure that you can unroot and flash back to stock whichever model phone you do have before making the jump. I know the older HTC phones were perma-rooted (meaning once you rooted it, it was impossible to undo). Researching the undoing of your work is just as important as researching how to do it, all in the name of covering your ass lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
I bought my Note ii through a company on ebay(few friends used them). I didnt want to waist my upgrade on my plan just incase.
Im open to doing this if i know i can without messing it up.
I'll hop on XDA when I get home from work and look up what all is involved in rooting and ROMing your phone. I'll do the best I can to take all the work out of it for you lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
If u can link us on how to root phones I am curious if my droid razor Max is able to be rooted as it is acting up lately.
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@MeanTA @popo8 @firebird_1995 @gojo83
Need to know what carriers you all have and exact phone model to look up each of your root/unroot methods.
Justin, I think I recall you said you have Sprint SG Note 2, correct?
No need to do mine... I FEAR losing my warranty whcih sprint stamds behind very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
G S2 (sprint)
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Fair enough. Just out of curiosity, I looked your's up anyway and it's got a nice straightforward root/unroot toolkit. If you ever change your mind, you know who to come to. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
Also looked up the various Droid RAZR models (Droid RAZR, RAZR HD, RAZR Maxx HD, and RAZR M). It looks like the first 3 variants can all be rooted and unrooted pretty easily. The RAZR M looks like it can be rooted, but didn't really see anything on unrooting it, so that one might be a perma-root. I'll look into it more if any of you guys actually have one.
razor maxx Verizon.
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Thanku man... I am also afraid that i have it SO set up... I cant risk it changing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
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@gojo83Quote:
Originally Posted by gojo83
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1943851
If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up. It's pretty simple, though, just follow the instructions exactly as he has them and you'll be rooted fine in no time.
Lol yeah, I learned my lesson with that back when I first got into rooting and ROMing my phones. Took me hours to get everything back how I wanted the first time. I learned to root it out of the box and get the ROM I want right away, then use Titanium Backup to transfer all my app data from old phone to new phone. Only takes about 2 hrs start to finish that way and no data loss from any app.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
@Blackbird96WS6Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
Samsung Galaxy Note ii(SPH-L900)
Sprint
@MeanTAQuote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
Great, easy ass root method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1957155
And a nice device nuke tool in case you need any warranty work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2086769
Droid razr verizon
@firebird_1995Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
Same as gojo83's above:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1943851
If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up. It's pretty simple, though, just follow the instructions exactly as he has them and you'll be rooted fine in no time.
I assume i do this after i get phone activated?
You don't have to go through the setup if you plan to put a custom ROM on the phone, as it'll blow everything away anyway. If you just plan to run rooted stock, then you can set it up, then root it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
All i have to do is call and get phone switched on with my number. Do i wait till i do that before i do the custom rom?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird96WS6
Ah right, Sprint doesn't use removable SIMs do they? Yeah, get it switched on so the IMEI is active and the APNs are working, then root and ROM it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
Awesome! Ill do this when phone comes in.
I saw a post while back. Where the icons where made into firebird logos. How do i do that?
Oh, you can do that on your current phone. Just download Nova Launcher, it lets you replace icons on your homescreen, such as the app drawer button, with pics on your phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeanTA
If you're referring to the wifi, bluetooth, gps, etc. icons in the pull-down menu, well, that will take some time to explain and show you lol. That requires tearing into the SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk on the phone and editing them with a program such as Paint.Net or w/e on the PC, repacking and signing the apks with a toolkit, then loading them back into the phone. :lol: I might add that the first time I did that from scratch, it took me about a week of going at it nonstop (even while I was at work when it was slow) to get it done. I also have a custom Trans Am bootanimation I can send you, that's easy to install once you're rooted. I'm pretty happy with the results on it after spending about 2 days making it lol.
Karma has a second name. Its z28pr0jekt
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No no if I were trolling I'd have deleted this post to begin with. I'm more informing my members how much you paid for it because someone out of kindness gave you a good deal under the assumption that you needed a hood.
Karma is almost as much of an asshole as me.
BTW you don't have the requisite post count to post stuff for sale so I'll be locking this thread now.
I giggled...Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
Making you silky smooth...
Man...shots fired...