Hello community. Long story short, I'm ONLY familiar with HTC. A customer came into my store with a bionic that was rooted, but SMS was messed up. I was on my way out for the day and a fellow rep showed me this guys bionic. I treated it like any other rooted device and rather than wasting time (I was in a hurry to leave) I just downloaded and flashed a theme. I could not figure out what rom he had, so i took a guess. I assumed if it didn't work, I could just boot into recovery and restore or just flash a different rom if need be... Well the phone hangs in its new boot screen and it appears that CWR is gone. It just has the stock recovery. I have no other info about what software was on it or anything. Being an HTC person, Im just lost! Any help is more that appreciated! Thanks
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Do you happen to be a sales rep?
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All is good and fixed. Nevermind
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Hey everyone. My friend who works for motorola said there was no way I would get moto blur running on my G1... anctually he said "fat chance"... can anyone point me in a good direction to prove him wrong?
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So I found a couple of old Dizzy ROM's... they seemed to boot okay, but I keep getting errors when I try to sign on... I have a MotoBlur account but still get error... any ideas? Could my radio keep me from being able to log in? It said use latest radio, but that was almost 2 years ago...
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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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This should answer your question: lol
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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IVXX said:
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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Hey guys I've been gone a while and I've decided that I love my Zio still but I hate Sprint's service. So I was looking into flashing my phone over to Cricket that way I can have the Rom support from Openzio and cwm. I do not have a whole lot of time I've been without my phone for over a month now and would really like to get some idea of where to start. Everything I've found so far is either a dead end or someone else that has no clue what they are doing. Thanks in advance guys look forward to talking again soon.
I could be (and probably am) wrong, but I would think you could just flash the 2.2.1 stock cricKet images.
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pomeroythomas said:
I could be (and probably am) wrong, but I would think you could just flash the 2.2.1 stock cricKet images.
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Very wrong. The two devices are not the same.
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Mattix724 said:
Very wrong. The two devices are not the same.
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Thought so. Heh. Looks like the only way you're getting your Sprint ZIO on cricKet is to take it in to cricKet and have it flashed over (which costs about $75).
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That's what I was hoping to avoid, I was hoping I could do the flashing myself and save the cost but hopefully I can talk the Cricket guy into hooking me up with a good deal he usually does. Thanks!
Hi i know that the cricket stores here in kc are running a special "trade any competers phone port your number and recieve there android phone free" that was how i received my zio from trade in of my mt3g. Only payed 55 for first month and recieved everything else free. Love the phone hate the keyboard on it lol. Good luck.
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Ok so i got this droid bionic, flashed 6.7.246..verizon.en.us which is apparently ics because only motofail for ics would work...anyway im using net10 and did the radionv edit, got voice and 3g but cant text. Also note that under info it doesnt know my number and the imei doesnt match my sim...if someone could please make sms to work that would be awesome.
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Btw i can be taught so if theres any readme's and such please point the way, tried google and nothin doin
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Nothing eh?
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Still looking for help on this
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As a fellow junior member, there will most likely be no help until you learn how to ask for help.
I'm not trying to be rude. I'm trying to be helpful.
READ,READ,READ
Um ok, but that doesnt help. Not trying to be rude but you could have at least pointed me in the right direction to learn "how to ask". As for those who ran across this with the same issue while i still havnt found a fix there is an app called pinger unfortunately you have to use a separate number but it does allow you to text normally so long as you have internet via phone network or wifi
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On a side note if this forum is going to act like an apple forum where its exclusive and you cant get help unless you do things just right its going to turn a lot of people away. There's a reason we all chose android, because we didn't want to be part of a community that thinks its better just because it doed things a certain way. We like the freedom of being unique not part of the iclone group. I asked for help in the best way i knew how even waiting every 24 hours to post again even though the wait was killing me. Then the response i received rang in deafening tones just how "cool" you have to be to receive any help. You know "not trying to be rude"
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Hey guyssssssss I live in Puerto Rico and my 4.3 update just got to me SEP/30
I used the standard process for unloocking bootloader /TMWP Recovery/ SuperSU/ and installed costom ROM. And everything is still working. If anyone else got the update please tell me.
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A bit about my phone. I bought it from a best buy clerk that won it in a pre release of the HTC one ( promotional propaganda to push the phone as they came into market. CWM touch recovery don't work on my phone always crashes.
Here here not smoking nothing. 5 hours of semi bricked device and I am back. No joke I can't get back to stock. RUU's dont work so I cant replicate what I did in a video. The update came to my phone Sep30. Tried to update but since I had a costume recovery kept falling to update ( even though the phone was forcing me to update everytime) decided to use the original RUU and update all the way throu. At 4 updates later I finally had it. All the bloatware from HTC wanted to update and so did sprint. What I first ran to check was the VVM because I know is not working on 4.3 and in fact had an update. Extracted the .apk and .odex and are on other post. And whent ahead and unlocked bootloader wish did normaly. Next went to install recovery and so it did. Then installed super user. All good. Final step change ROM so I did. When came the time to do it all again I couldnt. When I relocked phone it erased side loaded ROM and RUU don't work. Hit error as is tries to identify version. Hope HTC releases the update. If anyone has any way of getting RUU to work please page me. I would love to replicate the update for you guys
A ~250MB update is going to be the 1.31.651.2 OTA. If it is anything different than 4.1.2 then please post screen shot of About Phone -> Software Information screen. Appreciate it.
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Hey guyssssssss I live in Puerto Rico and my 4.3 update just got to me SEP/30 if you guys need anything just tell me and I will send it to you. (It was a 250 MB update)
I used the standard process for unloocking bootloader /TMWP Recovery/ SuperSU/ and installed costom ROM. And everything is still working. If anyone else got the update please tell me.
I already posted the new Sprint VVM in hopes it will fix the problems people are having with the 4.3 roms. I dont know how to compile it so i added the .apk and the .odex if something else is missing please tell me.
YAYYYYYYYYYY 4.3 is HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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I will post pics very soon
If in fact it has been updated to 4.3 it is extremely easy to pull OTAs from HTC devices versus any other manufacturer
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At the same time I would highly highly doubt that this will be the 4.3 OTA due to a custom ROM will most likely have major issues due to the firmware update and all from the new OTA.
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Isn't the 4.3 update almost 600 mbs
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dcsmaniatico said:
Hey guyssssssss I live in Puerto Rico and my 4.3 update just got to me SEP/30 if you guys need anything just tell me and I will send it to you. (It was a 250 MB update)
I used the standard process for unloocking bootloader /TMWP Recovery/ SuperSU/ and installed costom ROM. And everything is still working. If anyone else got the update please tell me.
I already posted the new Sprint VVM in hopes it will fix the problems people are having with the 4.3 roms. I dont know how to compile it so i added the .apk and the .odex if something else is missing please tell me.
YAYYYYYYYYYY 4.3 is HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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I hope for your sake that you are just misunderstanding something because the mods have said that the next person to post a thread about a fake 4.3 update is going to get banned. The 4.3 update is not just 250 mb as has been said and is just the 1.31 update which is still 4.1.2.
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Unmmm, bogus,,,
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Your either confused or smoked one too many my man because I just checked on sprint's official updates and Puerto Rico isn't on the list for getting 4.3
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Trolllolol
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Bull
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Why do through the effort? If it is bull it just doesn't make sense. I would like for it to be true though.
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Screencap or GTFO!
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BrianBaker said:
(hillbilly voice) "Puerto Rico, enough said....."
All the Sprint 4G waves around that island have made them report crazy things.
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Wowwww. Lots of hate from everyone. I am a reputable person. I have created a guide for Kindle Fire 2 when it did not had yet costume ROMs. And helped people hack their Kindle 2. I may not be a coder but I know my way around android. Wow lots of hate
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Wowwww. Lots of hate from everyone. I am a reputable person. I have created a guide for Kindle Fire 2 when it did not had yet costume ROMs. And helped people hack their Kindle 2. I may not be a coder but I know my way around android. Wow lots of hate
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I wasn't hating man. What you report makes no difference to me unless I seen it on my phone.. I was just making lite of the situation because everyone is taking it so serious.. Sorry if I offended you... Carry-on.
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Wowwww. Lots of hate from everyone. I am a reputable person. I have created a guide for Kindle Fire 2 when it did not had yet costume ROMs. And helped people hack their Kindle 2. I may not be a coder but I know my way around android. Wow lots of hate
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Hey, they aren't hating. They just don't like being teased. This site sometimes has the worst trolls. I read your history. You seem reputable. It just seems odd that you have this update. Maybe you got it, maybe you thought you did but were mistaken. A simple screenshot would end and presumed hostility.
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Wowwww. Lots of hate from everyone. I am a reputable person. I have created a guide for Kindle Fire 2 when it did not had yet costume ROMs. And helped people hack their Kindle 2. I may not be a coder but I know my way around android. Wow lots of hate
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No offense thrown at ya for my comments on the beginning of thread. Just believe you have taken on the 1.31.651.2 OTA judging based on size of update alone. I just wanted a screenshot is all. Not everyone is hating here lol go look at the first few comments in this thread again lol
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Closed for flamefest 4000.
OP unless you post a real screenshot any thread you start on this is going to end in a flame war due to this claim being highly unlikely