I just got my nexus yesterday so I'm new to rooting it but not new to rooting at all. I have a g1 and have been rooting it since it first came out. Can someone help by letting me know if the process for rooting my stock frf91 which is an over the air update the same as as the rest please. I'm having trouble finding rooting instructions for the stock frf91.
why don't you search the forum... it's been covered in multiple threads...
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This is probably a question answered a milion times. But my friend has a verizon droid and it has been slow ever since he got the OTA froyo update. He wants to go back to Stock 2.1. His phone is not rooted and he dosent care for it to be. I have flashed tons of samsungs back to stock and finding guides are easy. But for some reason I am having the hardest time finding what I need for this phone. Can someone please tell what I need to get and where to get them. So far I got RSD Lite v4.5.3. Please help. Thank you in advance.
Hi there, i bought recently Nexus One. As I discovered it is Vodafone version of N1. So as You guys know im stuck on Android 2.2.1. I would like to go stright to Gingerbread or CM7. And here is my question. (i know i could serch the forums for answers but many can be outdated or i just dont understand something). You guys are pro's so you will find solution for me maybe in seconds, where i will be serching this for hours.
Ok, questions:
- Can i root my phone using a oneclick? (If i will go fot CM7)
- If i would like to go for offical, stock updates, can i use PASSIMG method from wiki? So then i shuld just download downgrade (FRG33 as i remeber) and, step by step upgrade it to gingerbread, or i must do something before it ?(like downgrading to shipping version, mentioned at wiki before passimg method, im a bit confused). Will i get updates then from google and i wil be mo longer depended to Vodafone?
I will be grateful if You will answer my questions or just dp some quick guide. And sorry for my horrible grammar.
Yes, I also bought a Nexus One with a non standard ROM. Like you said you can use the PASSIMG method to downgrade to a stock froyo ROM (i.e. FRG33) and you will be able to then upgrade OTA stait to 2.3.4.
Best to do some research so that you understand all the ins and outs. Check the wiki.
As Dirk said, the best place to start doing your research is on the WiKi. After you have enough information to ask more specific and focused questions, then we will be able to help you a bit better.
PS. I would recommend just using the standard fastboot OEM unlock method of device unlocking and something better than stock such as CyanogenMod since you're new to the phone. You won't be able to relock the bootloader, but if you're not returning it, that's not an issue.
The answers are:
- Yes.
- Yes, no, yes.
I've been doing a lot of reading regarding rooting the Nexus one and unlocking the bootloader etc. I wish not to unlock the bootloader at this stage (as you can't lock it again, and the fact that i'm gonna be playing around with my dad's phone and wouldnt want anything to happen to that)
Right now, the phone has stock 2.3.4 installed, which I believe needs to be downgraded to be rooted.
So I downloaded the FRG83 release.
Now is the following right/possible:
Flash the phone with FRG83 by going into the phone's recovery - so the phone is downgraded
Root the phone using the superoneclick method
Now the phone is rooted and I can flash it with any custom ROM eg, CyanogenMod 7 etc..?
Sorry if this has been covered earlier, however I tried my best to read as much as I could, however there were always a few more steps involved in the process which I thought could be left out
So would the above process be okay?
Thanks
You have to use the PASSIMG.ZIP method to downgrade.
I would just read the WIKI
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
Read the wiki. You said you been doing a lot of reading but still do not know how to root/downgrade from 2.3.4. That makes no sense.
The steps are there for a reason.
You don't know what you're doing but come to conclusion that you can skip/leave out steps. That is flat out stupid.
Thanks
Thanks baseballfanz Yeah I've read the wiki and I was going to use the PASSIMG method, hence downloaded the FRG83 file, but somewhere else I had read that you had to flash it to froyo then back upto gingerbread :/ hence was a bit confused.
The problem is there are too many threads about it. And there are a few tiny differences in all.
So I guess I have to flash down to froyo and then use superoneclick.
And after that, I can just flash any ROM from the forum?
Alubundy2010, mate I did read it all and understood it. However I still had a few questions. If you didnt wanna help, it would've been best to keep your mouth shut.
Thanks
It is clear you did not and still don't understand it.
Yeah probably not, hence why I posted asking for help in the first place. Just spent an hour trying to do it, but stuck at froyo for now till I do an official OTA update tmrw morning and have a stock unrooted phone, cus I honestly don't have the balls to brick my dad's phone. So not rooting till I'm 100% sure of what I'm doing.
Thanks a lot for all the amazing the help.
Wiki clearly says:
"Gingerbread 2.3.4 can be rooted only when downgraded to 2.3.3 or to Froyo, using PASSIMG method, which will wipe the phone"
And the link is given - landing you on the same page, a bit upwards. The link contains EVERYTHING needed to downgrade.
Moreover, the following sentence points you to a VERY simple guide, which says: when you downgrade, you root. Without any additional steps. And from that point you do whatever you want.
The main guideline of XDA should say - "if you don't know what you're doing - stay away from rooting until you do". Obviously you don't, and you don't seem willing to learn by reading the proper guides, even when pointed to.
And just to make sure you got it: you can't root the latest OS version. Which means, if you downgrade and wait for the OTA to upgrade you back to the latest version, you'll finish (again) without the ability to root, and this time also without the ability to downgrade. Not quite smart, yes? If you want to avoid unlocking the bootloader, that is.
Now that the phone is running froyo you can root.
You should also have gotten the ota notification basically as soon as the phone finished booting.
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I've read through
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939243
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636795
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705460
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084978
think that's a fair few guides I've been through, and that's probably why I can't get it write cus I'm jumping from one page to another :|
Oh well thanks for the help guys, and I did actually do all the reading that was required.
Oh and I also rooted the phone when it was on Froyo through the manual superboot process.
Hello XDA forums! I am looking for someone to point me in the right direction while I try to upgrade my Bionic. I am not super savvy with this phone at the moment. I bought it right when it came out and rooted it as soon as there was a way to do so. I am running the stock rom. Other important info(at least I think so):
System version: 5.5.886
Android version: 2.3.4
Kernel version: 2.6.35.7
Build number: 5.5.1
So thats what I'm running rooted. I upgraded to this point, I believe using an update.zip to keep the root I had on the phone. My phone has been yelling at me for weeks now to upgrade to 5.5.893. I have been lazy and did not want to deal with setting up my interface again, BUT its time I dealt with this.
I'm looking for someone to tell me how I should upgrade unofficially keeping the root in the process or just updating officially and then rerooting. I am able to pick up on these processes so even just links to the right threads would be very helpful.
Before you do anything with the update, use the forever root so you don't lose root. I don't have the link but its not hard to find.
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Hi. Take the OTA to 893. You will likely lose root in the process, but that's ok. Next follow the step-by-step noob guide that you'll find in the general section.
Thank you! Yes I was pretty sure I was going to want to do this at some point. But I am currently rooted. Should I really do it now?
Okay so I think I'm going to upgrade via OTA and then follow the noob guide. So easy. I surfed other forums in the past and quickly decided this was the best one so I came here first! 20 minutes later I know what to do. Thanks!
the guide I was referring to is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
I wrote the guide based on my experience, and my friend's experience with our bionics. If you follow directions it's really pretty straight forward.
Looks good thanks Tuckmobile.
One problem. My phone is failing the update. The last time I updated it was not through verizon. I'm assuming this is the problem. I'm also assuming it's not going to be an easy solution.
Edit: Another problem. I froze some apps using bloat freezer. I accidentally uninstalled bloat freezer. I can't reinstall it as it is not on the app market. I have a feeling I need to unfreeze apps if i want to update. Sigh....
Try the pathsaver tool. It should help you. The directions are not super clear so read carefully and I'm sure you can get it.
Yeah frozen apps are a problem. Let me know if pathsaver helps
Okay I do not have charged batteries atm and I have work soon so this will have to wait for tomorrow morning. But here is what I believe I should do.
First I will attempt pathsaver that I found on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433783
Then just do the Forever root that is in the noob section. Assuming the pathsaver works for me I should be on .893 rooted correct?(with of course the option to go to .901)
Hey Folks,
Just bought this AT&T Note 3 off Craigslist, guy,owned it over a year, and it's running the latest Lollipop 5.0 OC2, so,spent the better of the past four hours reading and searching, just keep seem back to the same question
Is there a root for OC2? Or should I follow the current instructions telling me to downgrade to either (some say OC1), some say (4.4.2 Kit Kat), then towelroot, safestrap, then using safestrap reflash prerooted, unbloated, OC1? Sorry guys not new to all this just alot of info and trying to find my way through the weeds
Any help would be appriciated more than you would ever know, I know we're all busy, just need pointed to the one right way, thanks
Follow the instructions to downgrade.