No offense to anyone here, but I cant even fiddle with his phone for more than 30 seconds before I get frustrated by it's sluggishness and just hand it back to him. It's phones like that that prevented me from buying an Android phone for so long, but now I have the Evo and love it.
So, what can I do to help him out here? It's fully updated. Mostly I'd want to look into some sort of overclock and removing the sprint bloatware. Nothing fancy, just something to make it more functional.
First and foremost you need to root the phone using universal androot or z4 one click root.
Get root explorer to remove the bloatware. Once it is installed open up root explorer navigate to data/FLEX and remove bloatware.
Then you can start speeding up the phone using sysctl config app in the market. We have a thread with recommended settings floating around here somewhere. VM Heap tool and BladeBuddy to turn off stagefright, you can also use apps like SD speed increase to gain a lil speed from your sd card. After doing all of that and dialing the settings in the phone should run like a dream.
Just don't brick it. We will not take liability in the case that the phone no longer functions properly or if the battery blows up or any thing that happens from modifying the phone.
Now before you go buck wild with your dad's phone please read more about rooting and sysctl but first question is, cricket or sprint?
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Mattix724 said:
but first question is, cricket or sprint?
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patass said:
removing the SPRINT bloatware.
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Thanks fate guess I missed that. Can't do as much as the cricket Zio.
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I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.
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I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.
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Please tell me you arent trying to push the roms / themes from here on XDA. They are cricket images and wont work on sprint.
Aside from that, you may need to get someone with a working sprint zio and try to perform a nand backup from a fresh hard reset that you can hopefully restore. I dont even know if CWM recovery will work for sprint but read the thread here and give it a shot to see if it boots.
My Zio is a cricket its NOT a Sprint...
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IVXX said:
My Zio is a cricket its NOT a Sprint...
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I dont think there are any stock 1.6 img files anywhere around here. Just out of curiosity why the hell would you want the stock 1.6 img anyway??
I have 1.6 images
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But I promise you if it's cricket, flash the openzio rom once spz includes the kernel.
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OK, so the prob with this Zio is the last owner attempted to do the 2.2 over the air update and it failed, causing it to not boot right, then a Cricket Rep. Reloaded the OS and now it won't go passed the green droid at original start screen. Sure hope that kernel arrives soon. Thanks for all the help I appreciate it!
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Have you tried erasing everything in fastboot and flashing imgs in fastboot?
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Everything is off it, I assume since the OS was reloaded it has no root, this is my first time with a difficult phone too.I have ODIN if someone would be willing to walk me through that process I'd be VERY MUCH appreciative, it's possible I've over complicated this in my head, if it has no root am I skrewed? PC won't recognize it in usb, and I'm new to adb so getting files to it is tricky for a rookie like me ={
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Scrapped that zio...even ODIN didn't help...trading that zio and this LG for an out the box brand new Droid Incredible...coming completely set up rooted,backed up,and with a tested custom ROM optimized for speed and performance! Thanks to all the awesome ppl who helped me try and get that Zio going ^_^
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Good luck with the new phone... sorry that the Zio is too complicated to use, unfortunately we only have a few devs around here... the incredible has plenty of support and everything will be easy. If you have trouble with that phone it will be user error.
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I want this thing to run what it should be able to run. Is root even worth it on the verizon tab? Seems no one is supporting it. Everything is either wifi our gsm.
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You need Honeycomb.
But there I is no honeycomb love for the verizon tab is there? And from what I have read, rooting a verizon tab is asking for trouble!
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hammer4203 said:
But there I is no honeycomb love for the verizon tab is there? And from what I have read, rooting a verizon tab is asking for trouble!
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I think rooting the verizon tab is only sketchy if start messing with updates, roms, etc. I rooted mine the day I got it several months ago and loaded the voodoo plus kernel to overclock to 1.4ghz. Other than an issue that popped up with the Lookout app and finally getting the EC02 update notification to stop with a build.prop edit, it's been as close to perfect for me as I expect from a piece of tech and runs much better than those first few hours I used it prior to rooting. The main reason I wanted to root almost immediately was so I could restore my Titanium Backup apps from my Evo so I would keep all my app settings and scores.
I considered flashing one of the few VZW tab roms available or unrooting to install the EC02 update, but I figure it's better to leave good enough alone.
Will the Gingerbreak apk work on the Revolution? Thinking about taking a shot at it, since the pc is down. Any advice or confirmation is appreciated.
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Come on guys, 107 people have viewed this post and no one has an answer??
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Would you rather have 107 people saying nope, no idea, or would you like your thread relatively clean so that when the person with the answer replies, you don't have to sort through 100 pages of people who didn't have the answer. I think gingerbreak is the exploit that super1click uses to root the revolution though, so it is at least possible you can get it to work. Let us know how it goes for you, you may not be the only one wondering...
I used super1click and it worked fine with me if the gingerbreak apk is the same exploit I'm sure it will work and the cubed have a post here about plugging in hiss usb and did something simple and unplugged it and had it rooted so I'm sure its fairly easy to root
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I used S1C on my revo... and I'm pretty sure it defaulted to PSNeuter. Just read through some of the rooting threads... I'm sure these questions are already answered elsewhere.
Hey guys, to reiterate, l don't have a pc to use. I was wondering if there was an APK download that would work. You can use the Gingerbreak APK to root the Droid X2, so l was curious if it would work on the Revolution. It does NOT seem to work. It runs and keeps spinning, but after 15 minutes of waiting I let it go. Z4root is also non functional on the LG Revolution. I have tried both without results. Do any other options like UnRevoked or Universal Androot work? Or are there any other APK files that may?
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Not sure if this has been asked yet, looked around, but didn't see this particular app mentioned.
Would EasyTether work on on the Vivid? Has anyone tried it?
See a lot of people saying they aren't rooted and using it, any truth to it?
Thanks
I downloaded easy tether and its working fine...
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It does!! At least when i had to use it, it did. Works by installing "helper" software onto your computer and instead of checking "USB Tether" you just leave it in Charge mode and the software links your phone connection to your PC. Never had any issues with it!
Became awesomely excited when this gadget came in the mail yesterday. Was running Promethius and the watch will mate, but will not actually connect to phone. Went through a nightmare to get phone back to stock LG Froyo then Gingerbread, didn't work on either os. Any one with programming knowledge know a way to get the device to work? You can use 2.2+ for phone, but for some reason it hates LG or something....I want to know why the connection isn't happening, but have no idea what in the world to look for during bluetooth sync. Device connects to my friend's new Galaxy Note 2 quite easily :\
Anyone?
What do you mean do you have a thrill and where do you live (what country) and what version of android would you like to run?
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What do you mean do you have a thrill and where do you live (what country) and what version of android would you like to run?
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Yes I have a thrill, running 2.3 again, and um...did you read my post?
U.S. More specifically, Idaho