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eightysixed posted:I just bought a new Evo, and would like to root it for battery-efficiency purposed, but I'm afraid of bricking it The old thread was called "I got 99 problems but a brick ain't one" for a reason. Pretty much the only way to brick your phone is to flash a corrupt radio. Relax and remember to check MD5 sums.
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ROM Manager can perform nandroid backups, and if you pay $4 it can even automate them to run on a schedule.
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Oct 22, 2010 21:01
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There's no problem activating a rooted phone or one with a custom ROM (so long as it has a clean ESN, i.e. was never reported lost or stolen). There's nothing illegal or shady about rooting, it just technically voids the manufacturer's warranty. With unrevoked working on so many phones and similar one click root options available for others it sounds like a pretty easy job.
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Oct 26, 2010 14:18
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Godzilla07 posted:Anyone with the circular battery meter from here having troubles with the CM6.1 RC? It's only reporting in increments of 10 which is useless. Stock Android battery meter sucks so much and the default CM battery number is ugly. I bet something got changed in /system/framework/framework-res.apk (my money is on stat_sys_battery.xml). You'd have to decompile it to find out for sure.
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Oct 29, 2010 15:24
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travisray2004 posted:It's ugly as poo poo, the dialer doesn't tie in with the contacts like the sense dialer does, and you can't search by dialing out the contact's name as in sense . Dialer One
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Oct 31, 2010 21:41
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No. 6 posted:Maybe I'm doing this wrong. I rooted my HTC Legend specifically to block ads. When I try to run AdFree all I get is a black screen and then it goes back to the menu. I still see ads on site (SA for example). Do you have an app called Superuser? I'm not familiar with the Legend but some root methods require you to install it manually, and it sounds like AdFree might be trying to make a superuser request and can't. The Market thing is unrelated to rooting, a lot of people are having that problem. Go to Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Market and try clearing Market data and/or uninstalling Market updates (the latter worked for me). Also unless you flashed a custom ROM you are still on stock software. Rooting just gives some apps permissions that by default are blocked.
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Nov 2, 2010 15:26
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chippy posted:What do you guys think of this? Who in their right mind would rather have Rosie than ADW or LP?
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Nov 4, 2010 15:52
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MasterColin posted:Got an evo today and unRevoked doesn't work on the new HBoot 2.02... Some say it may if you set teh security level to off but yeah. Not sure If I feel safe doing the Hboot 2.02 S-Off thing.. I'll just have to watch to see if it gets updated Well that freaking sucks. I'm sure unrevoked is working on it, I would definitely wait a bit to see what they say about it.
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Nov 7, 2010 18:40
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Mask posted:More Evo fun incoming. I'm a little wary of that combo file, several people in that thread have had big issues with it. Run unrevoked3 to set S-OFF forever (unrevoked forever has been rolled into the unrevoked tool so there is no need to use it separately), then flash a stock ROM and accept the OTA update(s), which will give you current versions of all the various radios, then flash whatever custom ROM you want. Or if you're already on stock, do the updates first and unrevoked second. There's no need to worry about the new hboot 2.02, it's not being pushed to existing phones.
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Nov 10, 2010 17:36
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Mask posted:So if I am already rooted, I should still run Unrevoked3 to get the S-Off as there is no other easy way to do so? Also, is Fresh considered a Stock ROM or would I have to find something off XDA to flash over first? Unrevoked is pretty easy, you just install some custom drivers (if you're on Windows) and hit some buttons in Hboot. It's the most painless way to unlock NAND that I'm aware of. Even better than my previous post would be to run this RUU to go back to bone stock with all the updated radios and non volatile memory versions that no one can explain, then run unrevoked3, then flash whatever ROM you want. Back up your apps with Titanium first if you have data you don't want to lose.
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Nov 10, 2010 21:22
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Krakkles posted:Ok, got it. Should I be worried, or is it fine without it? This one doesn't have any radios so it's pretty much meaningless if you have a custom ROM and/or kernel. Even if you're running stock the only bug fix listed is a power cycle issue when some apps use the camera.
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Nov 12, 2010 18:24
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Casao posted:You need to do more than root, you need to install a rom that supports wireless tethering. I guess it depends on the device, because the stock EVO ROM supports wireless tethering (requires you to install the experimental build of wifi tether, but it works).
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Nov 16, 2010 19:54
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yamdankee posted:Is there a way to root phones in an automated or at least semi-automated way? I've rooted about 12 different phones at this point. They are all very straight forward to root these days (SuperOneClick, UniversalAndroot, etc). I would suggest reading or searching the google code page for wifi tether, the dev posts there frequently and lots of issues get resolved: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ Also, AutoHotKey is freaking awesome and requires no programming skills. You can write scripts for what you want (click here, wait 8 seconds, send this series of keystrokes, click over there) or there is a tool that records what you want to do.
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Nov 16, 2010 20:00
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helsabot posted:I just deleted the version I downloaded from the market and installed the version from its website instead, and now it works fine. Not sure why that is, but I'm happy now Yeah the stock EVO kernel only works with the experimental version. The dev sort of points this out in the description of the app on the market, but I imagine most of the population doesn't know if the EVO's kernel has netfilter enabled or not (I sure didn't).
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Nov 18, 2010 01:54
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Skeezy posted:So looking into this unrEVOked thing, it looks like I could probably do the root thing just fine. If it matters my hboot is 2.02 and my build number is 3.30.651.3 (this is the part that worried me, since my friend said that a EVO with the hardware version of 0004 and that build number won't be able to be rooted). Yeah the hboot 2.02 is a problem. There is a somewhat complicated workaround on xda here
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Nov 20, 2010 18:13
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Thornes posted:With almost every rom I've ever used I noticed that it will be super awesomely fast at first and then over a few months it will become less and less stable. Probably even happens with stock but I haven't gone that route in a long time. I disagree with this completely, I stopped messing around with ROMs for months; I'm still running Fresh 3.3.0.1 and it feels identical to the day I installed it.
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Feb 25, 2011 03:35
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Ashex posted:I can't wait for CM7 to be released, I've been using stock Sense on my DZ since I got it and am starting to get annoyed with some of its quirks like screwing with album art and how it resets the default contact pic when it sync with facebook. The only thing I will miss from Sense is the ability to select text in a non-retarded fashion (For anyone who has always had Sense, selecting text in the vanilla browser works like GMail - long press where you want start selecting, choose "select text" then tap again at the end of what you want to select, with one chance to get it right)
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Mar 9, 2011 17:06
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deong posted:You need to try out CM7. I think it changed in 2.3.3, now when you press and hold in the browser it highlights the word you touched. When you let go, it gives you 2 sliders on either side to adjust. Touch the center-ish of the hilighted selection and it now copies. Bada bing, bada boom. Its been so long since I've used sense, I don't recall if it is any better/easier. Freaking finally! I'm going to switch sometime soon, I went from CM6 to Fresh when my city got 4G (which I turned on maybe 12 times since I get no signal at work) and then I got lazy and never switched back. I haven't seen a lot of stuff about kernels, which were a weak point with CM in the past, is there one that sticks out?
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Living Vicariously posted:I just installed my first ROM (CM7), and I've installed the Google Apps pack and let Google restore all my apps. I now want to restore the app settings via Titanium, but NOT system data. How do I do this? Titanium Backup is confusing me a bit. There isn't an option for restoring just data because it doesn't back them up separately. I don't know how many apps you have with data you care about, but you can probably get away with restoring just those apps one at a time (no idea if you would have to uninstall the Google restored version first, probably not)
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Mar 15, 2011 17:48
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Penguissimo posted:You can absolutely restore just data. Just do a batch restore of all user apps, untick the ones you don't want to restore, and it'll toss up a dialog asking whether you want to restore apps+data, just apps, or just data. The last option is the one he wants. Ah ok I was looking for a separate batch option, I haven't actually run a batch restore in quite some time.
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Mar 15, 2011 18:32
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Solly posted:Word of warning if you are using gingervillian and a2sd is not working. All you have to do is go into cyogen mod settings and change the install location to sd card. What you shouldn't do is format the sd card and reflash the rom because that would be a complete waste of time Of course a nandroid restore will work, why wouldn't it?
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Mar 15, 2011 21:21
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travisray2004 posted:Ok so I've tried everything and posted this on XDA but figured why not post this here just in case. This exact thing happened with my first EVO, rebooted constantly for no apparent reason, and I reverted back to bone stock to be sure it wasn't a software issue. They looked at it for maybe 2 minutes at the Sprint store and then it rebooted before their eyes so they just swapped my battery and SD card into a refurb and I've been using it ever since with no problems.
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yamdankee posted:I installed Rubix Focused 2.0 on my wife's Droid 2 yesterday and everything is working except for Swype. The blue line traces across the keyboard but when you lift your finger, the word doesn't come up and a blue box around the perimeter of the keyboard flashes. Swype says something about it not being compatible with the device. That used to happen to me occasionally (swype ignoring the input with a border flash), try changing the input method to a different keyboard and then back to swype.
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Mar 24, 2011 16:57
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two_beer_bishes posted:I've been running the latest version of Fresh on my Evo since January and I'm very happy with it, but I would like to try something different this week. CM7 RC3 was released yesterday, that's what I'm going to from Fresh.
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How long is it stuck at the HTC screen? Because when you flash a new ROM the dalvik cache has to be rebuilt and that takes a few minutes.
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Mar 29, 2011 20:32
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Yeah it looks like they merged a fix for the wifi bug that FogHelmut just mentioned.
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Mar 30, 2011 15:35
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nate fisher posted:Ok I had to flash back over to a Sense ROM to do the GPS fix and redo the EVO Streaming/PRL fix. I backed up CM7 as was and wiped everything. Flashed Warm 2.2 and did both fixes. Wiping data doesn't even erase your current ROM, let alone the radio and related things like PRL. You don't have to wipe anything before doing a nandroid restore, because it's all erased when the image is rewritten anyway.
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Apr 1, 2011 17:42
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nate fisher posted:See this thread I'm have the feeling that messing with the proxy settings is what fixes the streaming issue, and the PRL stuff is just silly rain dancing. I mean, maybe updating PRL resets those proxy addresses, but the actual PRL itself has nothing to do with it.
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I was having the painfully common GPS issue with CM7, so I did a nandroid backup, restored a backup of my previous ROM (Fresh), ran ##GPSCLRX#, and then restored the backup I took of CM7. GPS works now, but all my CM settings are back to defaults, I have no lockscreen, and my home button refuses to do anything, ever.  Edit: wiping cache and dalvik and reinstalling CM7 over itself did absolutely nothing. What the gently caress is going on? heat fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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feedmegin posted:This is a bit like shutting down your phone and saying 'unless I turn my phone on it's bricked'. Bricking a device means killing it to the extent that it is permanently as useless as a brick to a normal person, which with a phone tends to mean wiping the bootloader somehow. That or flashing a corrupt radio image. I'm guessing what happens when some doofus screws up the instructions in the youtube video that trained chimps could follow is they post a comment yelling at the guy who made the video for ruining their phone then take it to the phone store where some tech runs a RUU and blammo good as new.
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Hey man I wasn't commenting on what does or does not constitute a brick, I was just throwing out the only way I know to brick an Android phone.
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Is a locked bootloader different than "S-On"?
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The weak signal isn't the fault of CM7. Funny thing about Sense ROMs is that they don't display 1X connection, ever; it just lies to you and always says 3G. My battery life is also worse on CM7 but a big part of that is because Juice Defender can't turn off the data connection in Gingerbread (they're working on it). I'm going to mess with some different kernels and finally set up SetCPU and see what that does.
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It fails with every app? How many have you tried?
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Slopehead posted:Good loving luck. I sat outside and smoked half a pack waiting for gps to lock on and finally turned it all off in disgust. I don't get it, CM6.1.1 would get an almost instant fix but cm7 is an assbutt about GPS. My battery life isn't really much improved over CM6 either. I'm half tempted to flash back because of this retardation. How the gently caress can you call it a final release without such a fundamental part of phone function being so boondoggled. Last time I checked the G2 wasn't such an archaic piece of poo poo that it couldn't be supported in this regard. It's HTC's fault for having buggy GPS code, not cyanogen's. Run the ##GPSCLRX# command in a Sense ROM and it will almost certainly fix it.
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Captain Charisma posted:Wow, I wish I had known this when I was using Sense up until 2 weeks ago. Do you have a nandroid backup of that ROM? If so, make a CM7 backup, restore the Sense backup, run GPS fix, then restore the CM7 backup. If you don't have a backup of a sense ROM, just flash any Sense ROM to run the command and then restore CM7. This works because the affected code is outside the ROM and isn't touched by nandroid.
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Apr 14, 2011 17:07
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diegetic poster posted:Since I installed CM7 on my Evo, I've been having a new voicemail notification pop up randomly, even though I don't have any messages. Does anyone know how to fix this? I poked around on the CM forums and their "solution" is to switch to Google Voice... I had this happen and it was because I had a few voicemails from like 6 months ago that I never deleted. I restored a backup of the visual voicemail app to get rid of them.
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Apr 15, 2011 16:18
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I really like this option in Gingerbread that some people might miss because of where it is buried: Settings > Applications > Development > Stop app via long-press It makes a long-press of the back button kill the foreground application.
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Apr 19, 2011 17:44
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Casao posted:Are you sure that's GB and not CM? Cause CM built that into, like, 5.0 I think, and MIUI had it before GB as well. You're probably right, I just never noticed it before, and I wasn't aware CM added things to the menus outside CM Settings
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WeaselWeaz posted:You install the radio first, then the rom. Two separate files. It isn't really any more risky than rooting. Well, a corrupt ROM image just forces you back into recovery to wipe and restore a nandroid or flash again, while a corrupt radio image can make your phone an expensive brick. Check your md5 sums!
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