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ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Edit: oh and RUU'ing didn't fix my /cache partition so my phone is permanently hosed. Granted it only matters in .01% of cases but it still doesn't sit well with me.

What exactly happened with this?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:24

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 01:47

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
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LastInLine posted:

What exactly happened with this?

It's basically this.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314629

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:34

Tesla Was Robbed: Oct 4, 2002; I AM A LIAR

Installed one of the CM9 nightlies on my Nook Color. What an amazing difference! It runs incredibly smooth, things pop up quickly and just missing the lag I had in CM7. It really is a wonderful little tablet now. Just need to get it set back up to access the network media stuff and I'll be happy again.

And for anyone looking to get into tablets, B&N just dropped the price on the Nook Color to $169. It's a great intro to tablets, Android and rooting.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:39

Civil: Apr 21, 2003; Do you see this? This means "Have a nice day".

Most stuff has been great, but the alligator water game has excruciatingly long pauses while levels load. Hoping the real ICS release next month fixes this. Other games seem fine so far.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:47

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

The new CM9 boot splash is pretty swank in a nerdy kind of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5Av_EVpyI

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:54

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die; Lipstick Apathy

LastInLine posted:

Simplekernel. Completely stock + BLN & Voodoo.

I'm sorry I meant the 4G.

Maker Of Shoes posted:

The new CM9 boot splash is pretty swank in a nerdy kind of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5Av_EVpyI

That is pretty awesome.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 16:58

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

AOKP just updated to version 25 which added the ability to hide the navigation bar. One quick Button Savior install later and I'm using 100% of my Galaxy Nexus' display.

Pretty awesome stuff.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 17:06

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

big mean giraffe posted:

I'm sorry I meant the 4G.

As far as I know (and I don't know very far) it should work on the NS4G. I'm not going to promise that it will, but if you nandroid first and try it out I doubt you'll have any problems and you certainly won't break anything by trying.

Edit: Looked in that thread and at least one person reported it working fine on the NS4G running the 4.0.4 leak although it is the kernel from 4.0.3 T-Mobile release so I guess it depends on what you're running.

ClassActionFursuit fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Feb 21, 2012

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:08

thebushcommander: Apr 16, 2004; HAY
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Here's a fun question.

I have a Nexus One, the power/sleep/wake button doesn't work anymore thanks to the brilliant hardware design from HTC. Right now when I have the phone on I use any unlock to turn the screen on.

In any event, I was wondering if anyone knew a way I could root the phone and install custom roms on it keeping in mind that I can't use the power button to browse through recovery menu's and select things etc. Anything I can do?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:18

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die; Lipstick Apathy

thebushcommander posted:

Here's a fun question.

I have a Nexus One, the power/sleep/wake button doesn't work anymore thanks to the brilliant hardware design from HTC. Right now when I have the phone on I use any unlock to turn the screen on.

In any event, I was wondering if anyone knew a way I could root the phone and install custom roms on it keeping in mind that I can't use the power button to browse through recovery menu's and select things etc. Anything I can do?

You can use ADB to reboot into the bootloader, that should let you get the ball rolling on that whole process. Once you get it unlocked you can install Clockwork Rom Manager or whatever and have that flash recovery and CM7 stuff for you.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:20

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

big mean giraffe posted:

You can use ADB to reboot into the bootloader, that should let you get the ball rolling on that whole process. Once you get it unlocked you can install Clockwork Rom Manager or whatever and have that flash recovery and CM7 stuff for you.

Still going to have to push the power button once to confirm unlocking the bootloader.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:24

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
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LastInLine posted:

Still going to have to push the power button once to confirm unlocking the bootloader.

There's an exploit running around that can root the N1 without touching the bootloader IIRC. I used it on a buddy's N1 many moons ago because he thought having a pad lock icon on the boot splash was akin to committing murder.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:27

Isaac Asimov: Oct 22, 2004; Phrost bought me this custom title even though he doesn't know me, to get rid of the old one (lol gay) out of respect for my namesake. Thanks, Phr

Tesla Was Robbed posted:

Installed one of the CM9 nightlies on my Nook Color. What an amazing difference! It runs incredibly smooth, things pop up quickly and just missing the lag I had in CM7. It really is a wonderful little tablet now. Just need to get it set back up to access the network media stuff and I'll be happy again.

And for anyone looking to get into tablets, B&N just dropped the price on the Nook Color to $169. It's a great intro to tablets, Android and rooting.

How did you go about doing this? I have been too busy lately to keep up with the progress.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:37

thebushcommander: Apr 16, 2004; HAY
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LastInLine posted:

Still going to have to push the power button once to confirm unlocking the bootloader.

That's what I was thinking. Sometimes I can get the power button to register a press, but I have to take the back off the phone and press very hard in just the right spot.

Luckily this is no longer my primary phone. So I guess I can just dick around with it a bit.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:39

deong: Jun 13, 2001; I'll see you in heck!

So I flashed the CM9a1 to my Touchpad, and it looks like youtube HD works now! :woop:

. I don't use netflix, so I'm not too concerned with that not working. I haven't noticed much difference from Alpha0.6 as of yet other than the youtubes. Haven't had any crashes as of yet.. Seems good to go.

Also, found out how to modify the default boot option in mboot. Just need to change /boot/moboot.default to say whatever you want to be your default. So WebOS or CyanogenMod. I've not yet found out for sure how to remove options, as I still have Everlove which consistently causes com.phone.android to crash.. but at least now the default is fine.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:50

DashingGentleman: Nov 10, 2009

deong posted:

So I flashed the CM9a1 to my Touchpad, and it looks like youtube HD works now! . I don't use netflix, so I'm not too concerned with that not working. I haven't noticed much difference from Alpha0.6 as of yet other than the youtubes. Haven't had any crashes as of yet.. Seems good to go.

Also, found out how to modify the default boot option in mboot. Just need to change /boot/moboot.default to say whatever you want to be your default. So WebOS or CyanogenMod. I've not yet found out for sure how to remove options, as I still have Everlove which consistently causes com.phone.android to crash.. but at least now the default is fine.

Just delete the appropriate uImage file.

Updated to alpha 1 myself. It seems flash video in the browser works now (previously only youtube-hosted clips would play for me, others had sound but no video) but it seems to stutter intermittently.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:07

Vaporware: May 22, 2004; Still not here yet.

It appears that root is immanent for the ATT note. Since I was late to the captivate scene I'm still not quite familiar with odin/heimdall versus superoneclick methods. I understand they're flashing tools, but I can't figure out if there's a backup image function.

Is it possible to just download my stock image using heimdall?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:08

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die; Lipstick Apathy

Vaporware posted:

It appears that root is immanent for the ATT note. Since I was late to the captivate scene I'm still not quite familiar with odin/heimdall versus superoneclick methods. I understand they're flashing tools, but I can't figure out if there's a backup image function.

Is it possible to just download my stock image using heimdall?

http://rootzwiki.com/_/articles/rooting/how-to-root-the-att-samsung-galaxy-note-r425

Root for the Note is out.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:11

deong: Jun 13, 2001; I'll see you in heck!

DashingGentleman posted:

Just delete the appropriate uImage file.

Updated to alpha 1 myself. It seems flash video in the browser works now (previously only youtube-hosted clips would play for me, others had sound but no video) but it seems to stutter intermittently.

I was assuming this, just hadn't taken the time to verify. Thanks.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:31

Kameleon: Jan 11, 2006; gay for johnny deLOL BAT COUNTRY

thebushcommander posted:

Here's a fun question.

I have a Nexus One, the power/sleep/wake button doesn't work anymore thanks to the brilliant hardware design from HTC. Right now when I have the phone on I use any unlock to turn the screen on.

In any event, I was wondering if anyone knew a way I could root the phone and install custom roms on it keeping in mind that I can't use the power button to browse through recovery menu's and select things etc. Anything I can do?

Have you tried 4ext touch recovery?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:59

Alucard: Mar 11, 2002; Pillbug

deong posted:

So I flashed the CM9a1 to my Touchpad, and it looks like youtube HD works now! . I don't use netflix, so I'm not too concerned with that not working. I haven't noticed much difference from Alpha0.6 as of yet other than the youtubes. Haven't had any crashes as of yet.. Seems good to go.

Also, found out how to modify the default boot option in mboot. Just need to change /boot/moboot.default to say whatever you want to be your default. So WebOS or CyanogenMod. I've not yet found out for sure how to remove options, as I still have Everlove which consistently causes com.phone.android to crash.. but at least now the default is fine.

I upgraded to alpha 0.6 via acmeinstaller2, did you flash to the newer alpha using that technique or ClockWork?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 20:28

blackflare: Dec 6, 2004; I am a Purrrfect Princess

Any idea why my market app in alpha 1 on the touchpad doesn't work? It starts to open and then closes again. I did in fact reinstall the gapps zip in the thread too...

# ? Feb 21, 2012 20:35

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

yay, rudimentary camera support in CM9.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448697&page=300

# ? Feb 21, 2012 20:54

blackflare: Dec 6, 2004; I am a Purrrfect Princess

Ok now I tried reinstalling my backup of .6, and ugrading with cwm instead of the acme installer, no difference. Then I tried a different gapps zip, no dice... Anyone have any idea why my market wont launch?

edit: figured it out, I needed to use the gapp fixer thing.

blackflare fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Feb 21, 2012

# ? Feb 21, 2012 21:01

deong: Jun 13, 2001; I'll see you in heck!

blackflare posted:

Ok now I tried reinstalling my backup of .6, and ugrading with cwm instead of the acme installer, no difference. Then I tried a different gapps zip, no dice... Anyone have any idea why my market wont launch?

edit: figured it out, I needed to use the gapp fixer thing.

Looks like you got it but I used CWM to upgrade. It went fine for me, but I also flashed the newest ICS gapps from goo-inside.me when I flashed. With the newest one, I didn't need the gapps fixer.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 21:24

Vaporware: May 22, 2004; Still not here yet.

big mean giraffe posted:

http://rootzwiki.com/_/articles/rooting/how-to-root-the-att-samsung-galaxy-note-r425

Root for the Note is out.

DA_G from XDA posted:

In short, the boot.img consists of a kernel+ramdisk, we get a hold of the stock boot.img (didn't have it in this case, so built a kernel from source and combined with my own ramdisk based on skyrocket), alter ramdisk contents to run newly added scripts that add root to /system on first boot (and leave a marker behind so it doesn't re-root every bootup), also alter scripts to add init.d support and change bootanimation back to android stock vs. samsung custom.

Then stick it in an odin .tar, flash with odin and pray it works A few soft bricks, fixing things up here and there, then success!

I'm going to wait for a bit.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 21:28

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die; Lipstick Apathy

Vaporware posted:

I'm going to wait for a bit.

That kind of stuff is pretty typical in rooting a new device.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 21:33

Odette: Mar 19, 2011

Maker Of Shoes posted:

The new CM9 boot splash is pretty swank in a nerdy kind of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5Av_EVpyI

Wow, that is great. I can't wait to see this on my phone!

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:15

vote_no: Nov 22, 2005; The rush is on.

That could make me replace my fake BIOS boot animation. Maybe.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:17

Kameleon: Jan 11, 2006; gay for johnny deLOL BAT COUNTRY

vote_no posted:

That could make me replace my fake BIOS boot animation. Maybe.

Got a link?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:28

ExcessBLarg!: Sep 1, 2001

DA_G from XDA posted:

didn't have it in this case, so built a kernel from source and combined with my own ramdisk based on skyrocket

Ugh, and another xda "first root!" shithead wins.

Of course if you flash this, you lose the stock kernel. You also have no way to get the stock kernel back until someone else dumps it (which they can't if everyone flashes this) or until a factory Odin tar hits the streets.

I've posted it before, but the right way kernel dumping protocol requires two devices (or a modicum of cooperation among two device owners, which xda isn't particularly known for). Here's the steps:

1. Cobble together a lovely replacement kernel image that gives you root. (This is what DA_G did.)
2. Flash lovely kernel on device #1.
3. Use lovely kernel to dump an unmodified /system.
4. Install Superuser on /system, dump that too.
5. Flash Superusered /system on device #2.
6. Use Superusered /system to dump an unmodified stock kernel.

Congrats! Now you have an unmodified, stock kernel and system image that you can flash over both devices as necessary and release to the brick-every-day world.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:37

Tesla Was Robbed: Oct 4, 2002; I AM A LIAR

Isaac Asimov posted:

How did you go about doing this? I have been too busy lately to keep up with the progress.

Start here. I tried to do the whole build-your-own thing that one of the devs wanted people to do, but I never got everything right. Now they have nightlies and it's sweet.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:40

Vaporware: May 22, 2004; Still not here yet.

ExcessBLarg! posted:

Ugh, and another xda "first root!" shithead wins.

Of course if you flash this, you lose the stock kernel. You also have no way to get the stock kernel back until someone else dumps it (which they can't if everyone flashes this) or until a factory Odin tar hits the streets.

I've posted it before, but the right way kernel dumping protocol requires two devices (or a modicum of cooperation among two device owners, which xda isn't particularly known for). Here's the steps:

1. Cobble together a lovely replacement kernel image that gives you root. (This is what DA_G did.)
2. Flash lovely kernel on device #1.
3. Use lovely kernel to dump an unmodified /system.
4. Install Superuser on /system, dump that too.
5. Flash Superusered /system on device #2.
6. Use Superusered /system to dump an unmodified stock kernel.

Congrats! Now you have an unmodified, stock kernel and system image that you can flash over both devices as necessary and release to the brick-every-day world.

I was trying to figure this process out to get a full stock image off my phone, and it's good to hear I wasn't just missing something.

I can wait for the stock image before rooting. Just so I have an oh poo poo fallback.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:48

Mark Larson: Dec 27, 2003; Interesting...

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Me too. It finally broke me and I RUU'ed back to a TMOUS 1.27 build, rev io'ed and put CM7 back on. The battery life is going to be complete poo poo but at least everything works and it doesn't reboot.

Have you tried Reverted AOSP? I'm very happy with it on my Sensation.

# ? Feb 21, 2012 22:56

vote_no: Nov 22, 2005; The rush is on.

Kameleon posted:

Got a link?

Apparently I can't paste into this text field on ICS, just search Android BIOS boot animation on the Google.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648555

vote_no fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 22, 2012

# ? Feb 21, 2012 23:01

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

lelandjs posted:

AOKP just updated to version 25 which added the ability to hide the navigation bar. One quick Button Savior install later and I'm using 100% of my Galaxy Nexus' display.

Pretty awesome stuff.

Just to amend my post: I now have my Volume Up key acting as Back and my Volume Down acting as Home. Long pressing Volume Down launches Recent Apps. I also downloaded a app that puts volume controls into my notification bar for those rare occasions that I need to change the media volume (I already use a widget to change ringer states).

The one issue remaining is that pesky menu key. Removing the Navbar also removes the menu key from ICS action bars (annoying, though I can see why that would be default behavior). So for now I've left Battery Savior installed, if only for those rare occasions when I need a back button. I've been looking for a way to remap a long press of the back key to menu but I haven't had any luck so far.

# ? Feb 22, 2012 00:12

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
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Mark Larson posted:

Have you tried Reverted AOSP? I'm very happy with it on my Sensation.

I probably will. Gingerbread is killing me. :suicide:

# ? Feb 22, 2012 01:10

Gyshall: Feb 24, 2009; Had a couple of drinks.
Saw a couple of things.

Giving AOKP a try on my Galaxy Nexus. Looks pretty sweet.

# ? Feb 22, 2012 01:13

Auron: Jan 10, 2002; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

I'm really impressed with CM9 Alpha 1 for the Touchpad. It is incredibly smooth and fast. Can't wait for netflix playback!

Auron fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Feb 22, 2012

# ? Feb 22, 2012 02:29

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 01:47

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

Me, too. I've been avoiding the ICS alphas until they looked at least semi-stable, so this is the first one I've used, but it's pretty awesome so far.

# ? Feb 22, 2012 04:05

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