this may sound stupid but is there a virtual android phone that you can flash roms on?
You can't use the Android Emulator from the sdk?
The emulator in the SDK has a stock AOSP ROM on it - somewhere i've seen instructions on throwing a boot.img into it. Good should be a good source for you.
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Hi,
I'am French and new in your community, I have a Tattoo since 2 months
I would like try to build custom rom but i have several questions
When you build/test your rom, you always test directly on your device ?
Is it possible to use the Android SDK emulator to test our own Rom ?
There is a site or others that explain the Android boot process ? or this boot process is exactly the same as in a classic linux ?
Thx.
Android is based on Java, which runs in a Dalvik VM on top of a Linux base. Linux is actually the internals, the hardware detection, etc.
When you boot up the Tattoo, it loads the linux kernel holding all the things required to boot Android. It then looks for the system partition, and then starts the VM to load Android's java apps.
I found there is some kind of method make Android running on VM in PC: http://www.android-x86.org/
However it seems not a CM ROM, i wish i can test run the nightly CM ROM below I really flash it into my N1, can I do this?
Perhaps you can load it in the SDK emulator.
Didn't try it myself, though.
The Android-x86 project is for running Android natively on your computer, not emulated.
If you want to run CM in the SDK emulator you have to set up a build environment, download the source and compile it for the emulator using the 'lunch' command.
Hello, first post ever so sorry if Ihave posted this in the wrong section.
I just thought I would share this info with fellow Ubuntu users who may be interested in unlocking and rooting their devices.
You can download and install ADB and Fastboot in ubuntu 12.10 through the synaptic package manager (which itself can be installed from the software center).
The package is known as Android-tools. This will ensure you have the tools to carry out ADB and fastboot requests. I think the android SDK will still be required though so still download that.
This should work on linux mint and other ubuntu based distros.
Also, you can download these repos on other versions of ubuntu too using the terminal.
Just follow http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/install-adb-and-fastboot-android-tools.html guide.
No offense to "Web Upd8", but adding some random blog's PPA to your system to do something that Google has made completely trivial on Ubuntu is pretty dumb to say the least
Good morning Gents and Ladies
This is my first post in xda-developers.
I am planning to buy a smartphone for pen-testing besides of other normal smartphone usage sutff.
My choices have bioled down to the Sony Xperia Z, and the Samsung Galaxy S4...
Only problem is tha i do not know how to root these devices.... by what i have seen so far, it requires flashing the ROM, of them, but i have no access to Windows computers... i only have an Ubuntu 12.04 installation in my laptop, but all the tutorials i have seen so far, involve using some sort of win applications....
I need to root the device in order to get Kali linux, or backtrack linux, or BackBuntu to run in a chroot in an SD card... as well as to install ANTI, and dSploit...
Any hints of how to do this using Linux..??
and more.. the kernel images used in the rooting process are no longer hosted in the websites, where can i get them..?
best regards
Alex
You don't need Windows to root the device. I've successfully rooted the device with locked and unlocked bootloader under linux. You can just run the needed adb commands under linux if you have the android sdk installed.
Downloading Android SDK now... Installed Eclipse already...
djselbeck said:
You don't need Windows to root the device. I've successfully rooted the device with locked and unlocked bootloader under linux. You can just run the needed adb commands under linux if you have the android sdk installed.
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Hi, thanks for the answer, is the source code of ADB packed in the SDK, and i just need to build an executable, ? or is it just a stand-alone binary..?
BRGDS
Alex
All you need is the platform-tools folder from the sdk. The binary for adb will be present for your platform. I rooted on a mac.
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I suggest that this topic should serve as a place for people to suggest ideas on how to jailbreak Windows Phone 8.
Like that there is a centralized place to talk about how to jailbreak wp8.
Ideas:
-Flash the emulator ROM on the phone to have a dev unlock. USSELES
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I just thought about a eventual way to jailbreak Windows Phone 8. I have no idea if this is possible or not.
On The Windows Phone SDK you need a dev account to install apps to your phone. Right? How about the emulator ROM? No. You don't. You can test your apps on the emulator without a dev account. So, I was thinking, how about Flashing a device with the emulator ROM, which I suppose would need to be conditioned for each different wp8 device separately, and then, as on the emulator, you don't need a dev account to install unsigned .xap files!
This might be totally unrealistic, but then it might not. (btw I'm a noob in hacking/development)
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Hi everybody,
I just thought about a eventual way to jailbreak Windows Phone 8. I have no idea if this is possible or not.
On The Windows Phone SDK you need a dev account to install apps to your phone. Right? How about the emulator ROM? No. You don't. You can test your apps on the emulator without a dev account. So, I was thinking, how about Flashing a device with the emulator ROM, which I suppose would need to be conditioned for each different wp8 device separately, and then, as on the emulator, you don't need a dev account to install unsigned .xap files!
This might be totally unrealistic, but then it might not. (btw I'm a noob in hacking/development)
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The WP8 emulator rom is very different from the roms that are on the devices. The emulated WP8 device is extremely limited. If its the same as it was with WP7, It only allows access to the internet browser, settings (just access to change the accent color), and the app (the files deployed are called xaps). The unlocked emulator files for WP7 allow access to almost everything. The biggest exception was downloading apps from the store. I'm sure someone has thought of it since then.
GenieEte0 said:
Hi everybody,
I just thought about a eventual way to jailbreak Windows Phone 8. I have no idea if this is possible or not.
On The Windows Phone SDK you need a dev account to install apps to your phone. Right? How about the emulator ROM? No. You don't. You can test your apps on the emulator without a dev account. So, I was thinking, how about Flashing a device with the emulator ROM, which I suppose would need to be conditioned for each different wp8 device separately, and then, as on the emulator, you don't need a dev account to install unsigned .xap files!
This might be totally unrealistic, but then it might not. (btw I'm a noob in hacking/development)
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The emulator is compiled to x86 code. The code base, even if decompiled somehow then recompiled for ARM, will probably not work.
There is a really big problem with this idea (several of them, actually).
First and foremost, the "emulator" image is actually just a virtual machine hard disk file (.vhdx). Since it runs on x86 Windows machines, it is over course an x86 VM image. The phones use ARM CPUs; they can't execute x86 code.
Second, the emulator image is crippled to hell and gone. Have fun using a phone that can no longer make phone calls or use a cellular radio.
Third, the emulator image has drivers for the emulated hardware. It does not have drivers for the hardware on the phone. Nothing on the phone would work, even if the image included the software to use it.
Fourth, the emulator image is probably not signed with a signature that the phones' bootloaders would trust. Therefore, it would in effect be a custom ROM; most phones wouldn't allow us to flash it.