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I'm putting this out there...regardless of the propsed "will brick itself if rooted" thing floating around...I will personally test any root method, regardless of risk.
Breakthecycle2 said:
I'm putting this out there...regardless of the propsed "will brick itself if rooted" thing floating around...I will personally test any root method, regardless of risk.
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That is good to know! I think the whole self-destruction thing is blown out of proportion...but I could be wrong.
I'm with you. Anything I can do to help.
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drewden123 said:
That is good to know! I think the whole self-destruction thing is blown out of proportion...but I could be wrong.
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I agree, but you never know I guess. Anyway, I'm not worried about something happening to my phone..lol.
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I agree, but you never know I guess. Anyway, I'm not worried about something happening to my phone..lol.
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Lol good. It's good to know we have brave devs willing to take on the challenge..not just ranting about how dumb they think the bootloader issue is or how angry they are with it. I would be as voluntary as you if I had the money to risk bricking and replacing my droid x.
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Lol good. It's good to know we have brave devs willing to take on the challenge..not just ranting about how dumb they think the bootloader issue is or how angry they are with it. I would be as voluntary as you if I had the money to risk bricking and replacing my droid x.
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It's all good man..I don't think anyone expects anyone to risk bricking their phone if they can't replace it.
Even if you did brick it, just take it back to Big Red. They will replace it without question within 30 days and just call it DOA. More than half of the people at the stores don't care.... Trust me on this one.
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Even if you did brick it, just take it back to Big Red. They will replace it without question within 30 days and just call it DOA. More than half of the people at the stores don't care.... Trust me on this one.
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Also good to know! Thanks!
Efuse will not brick your phone
Motorola says eFuse will not brick your phone, if an alternate unsighed bootloader is loaded, the phone will reboot into recovery until a signed bootloader is loaded.
engadget.com/2010/07/16/motorola-responds-to-droid-x-bootloader-controversy-says-efuse/
throwing my name in the hat
I plan on picking up the x this weekend...and more than likely sending it back in 30 days either way. I also have insurance that covers just about anything, so i'm not too worried about them turning me away. Feel free to shoot me a PM or i'll follow this thread if anyone wants to test it out!
Good luck dev's!
Well since installing a custom rom will only send you back to recovery, why not root (when possible of course) and install a custom recovery? Might help get past some of the issue...idk just trying to help.
My phone will be here monday, and we better have custom roms by then or else lol
Meh, you guys realize how many phones Milestone users bricked trying to hack it right? It's not so much there's a self destruct thing as there is that the modding you do could potentially screw up the phone because you ARE messing with a bootloader and trying to get it to sign properly...
It's a tricky thing. As a Milestone user watching this board I have to say.... welcome to our world. It's one thing to say that the DROID and Incredible got hacked and what not, but this is something Milestone fans have been struggling with for like 9 months or so. It's not easy and we still haven't killed it yet. Don't come on here with too much faith as this is pretty much the same encryption scheme. I welcome the help, and perhaps one of you guys will figure it out as it is now a joint battle... but don't be surprised if it doesn't work out because none of us are holding that much hope.
The kexec vulnerability has the best chance and it's not by cracking the bootloader.
What is he kexec vulnerability? And also do you think there would any way we can bruteforce the encryption by doing some sort of a [email protected] type of ordeal?
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What is he kexec vulnerability? And also do you think there would any way we can bruteforce the encryption by doing some sort of a [email protected] type of ordeal?
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Check out www.and-developers.com/motorola_milestone
Why cant someone get the original rom just like the Droid? That way it makes it impossible to brick.
I will offer up mine to testing. If in 30 days I will tell them it just died. After that I will spend the insurance and tell them I dropped in a pool I was surveying.
I as well would risk the recovery menu for testing. its worth it
Was wondering if there was any news or updates regarding the bootloader. Im thankful for all we have so far, plus im a donator to some projects so I help with what I can. Anyone heard anything or have any good references to follow? And whats up with people going to incredibles over x's? I hope no one is giving up on development for the x.
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If anyone is working on the bootloader it would be birdman. But until now all he is talking about is the new Flyx rom he is working on.
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DROIDNP said:
If anyone is working on the bootloader it would be birdman. But until now all he is talking about is the new Flyx rom he is working on.
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He is working on it.
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Was wondering if there was any news or updates regarding the bootloader. Im thankful for all we have so far, plus im a donator to some projects so I help with what I can. Anyone heard anything or have any good references to follow? And whats up with people going to incredibles over x's? I hope no one is giving up on development for the x.
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It almost makes me wish I wouldve kept my Incredible now that they have custom Roms running but the X is much more fitting and better for me. I felt the same way about the Incredible when I had it, didnt think Root was gonna make it and wasnt sure how long it would take to get custom Roms. I jumped ship because of that and a lil bit in part to bad battery life and soon after they got Root and now have custom Roms running. We just have to be patient as we have and hope that it soon comes. I agree with you and am thankful for what we have and we can play in the sandbox just not with all the toys.
Anyone know if the Unrevoked Team has gotten their hands on a DX yet? If not it might be time for another DX donation thread to give this Team a crack at the bootloader.
According to a post at the android forums, birdman is working on something that has to do with the mbm. It think it was Lexusbrian that gave a little tidbit that birdman might have some news for us in a couple of days from now. So be patient becuase it is being worked on.
Sweet. Well lets hold strong dx'ers, give support and donations, eventually well smash this efuse.
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Considering how FAST we got root compared to the Dinc and how the whole "efuse" panic basically provoked folks into wanting a DX just to prove the bootloader can be hijacked, I think we'll have something soon.
Birdman has been shooting out some occasional tweets that suggest that he's working on it, as well as on FlyX. I expect we'll have a significant breakthrough soon (a few weeks, in my estimation.... I'm being conservative here... it could be faster), if not a working bootloader hijacking process.
Wonder what these last few posts about qFuse and such are about?
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Wonder what these last few posts about qFuse and such are about?
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Go to the link below and click on the link in the first post. That oughtta give you an idea of what is going on..
http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/167039-great-read-rooted-droid-x-users.html
Apparently the documents and code to do this are out there now. All that needs to be done at this point, is for someone to put it into an Update.zip format.
Apparently it involves some kind of exploit with NVRAND while Flashing a new baseband. I'd say within 2 weeks, our phones will be open.
Great news...,looks like ur claim on the android forums was correct LexusBrian
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are there any news?
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are there any news?
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Believe me once some thing is available you will see it on the forums. Just give it a few days or weeks as this just came out.
P3 has twittered about something big coming out for tbh users in Friday and it not being a full tranquility but something bigger
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This is what I am thinking ,don't some of you guys think that gingerbread will be OTA on christmas for the nexus one. I hope so. What are your thoughts on this??
This idea is a bunch of crap.
What company would want to support a roll out on a HOLIDAY!?
Its just a thought man
You might ever know Google might be in the holiday spirit.
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Doubt it since they said coming weeks less then 2 days ago...
I would be happy if we get it before CES, just when we will start craving some honeycomb heh.
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This is what I am thinking ,don't some of you guys think that gingerbread will be OTA on christmas for the nexus one. I hope so. What are your thoughts on this??
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My thoughts on yet another f'ing gingerbread thread might get me banned.....
Thread's mega dead. Mr. flashinglights is about to breath some fresh air into the forum possibly with a RC2 update this weekend, but who else has anything to contribute? As for myself, I will be begining to spend a lil more time on coming up with somthing new and useful for the HeroC community. So, was just curious if anyone else was out there with this old azz device willing to assist me/us in freshening up thread a lil bit????
I can help with design but I don't know coding and don't want to learn it. I have looads of experience in visual communications but that's about all I can do. I'd be more than willing to help though!
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I can help with design but I don't know coding and don't want to learn it. I have looads of experience in visual communications but that's about all I can do. I'd be more than willing to help though!
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werd, let's do something. first off, we could work on themes/taskbar upgrades for dude's RC2 release?
I'm down. I'm not sure about the rom choice considering it's still an RC and we have no way of knowing if/and/or how much the res will change in the framework...
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What does RC2 consist of? Will there be overclock? And battery hold? Not a drain?
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What does RC2 consist of? Will there be overclock? And battery hold? Not a drain?
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There is already the ability to overclock. And you can flash whatever kernel you like to overclock. Mine is oc'd to 768.
Nandroids are for sissies.
Bang.
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Thread's mega dead. Mr. flashinglights is about to breath some fresh air into the forum possibly with a RC2 update this weekend, but who else has anything to contribute? As for myself, I will be begining to spend a lil more time on coming up with somthing new and useful for the HeroC community. So, was just curious if anyone else was out there with this old azz device willing to assist me/us in freshening up thread a lil bit????
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Theres wildhero, kushdecks, jaybobs, aosp, cm, omgb, evervolvs, ihero (i guess hes stickin with that).... the hero aint dead
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Like the title says. I need help in how to get my droid esn added to metros database. I have everything else done on the phone it gets metro at 611 .. I have the mms and net set and ready to with all files needed. I just can seem to find anyone around me that will add the esn. Please let me know of anyway I can. I called metro and they said no, and I took it to like 10 dealers and they all said no. Please help thanks.
what did the dealers say besides no? did they say why not?
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Like the title says. I need help in how to get my droid esn added to metros database. I have everything else done on the phone it gets metro at 611 .. I have the mms and net set and ready to with all files needed. I just can seem to find anyone around me that will add the esn. Please let me know of anyway I can. I called metro and they said no, and I took it to like 10 dealers and they all said no. Please help thanks.
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what did the dealers say besides no? did they say why not?
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Both of you: I asked around a lot last week and I was told to go to a Corporate store because they are the only ones who can get into that part of the database and edit it. Apparently it costs some money, idk how much.
Thanks for the replys so far, but I have done all of the above as in so far as to go to the corp store and dial 611 and 228 infront of them, and hello hello hello lol played and nope will not add the esn from the phone in person or at the dealers(any corp or private). The only guy I found here where I live wants 90 bucks to add the esn :{ any other ideas I have a eris running fully flashed and loaded but its not doing it for me any more. Ok thanks for any ideas.
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Thanks for the replys so far, but I have done all of the above as in so far as to go to the corp store and dial 611 and 228 infront of them, and hello hello hello lol played and nope will not add the esn from the phone in person or at the dealers(any corp or private). The only guy I found here where I live wants 90 bucks to add the esn :{ any other ideas I have a eris running fully flashed and loaded but its not doing it for me any more. Ok thanks for any ideas.
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Well I suggest that you keep looking on craigslist or something because that seems like your only option now... or just save up an buy the LG Esteem... $350 but well worth it... epic phone. Good luck man :/
Hi AtmosFEAR I could get one of the esteem but I just looked here real quick and I didn't even see a sub-forum for them :{ whats up with that ? I went into the corp store again tonight and I got someone who said if the phone is flashed they could do it so dial 611 and they here metro so he takes the phone and goes to scan the esn and nope. Not flashed by Houdini so no work. Now can I go and buy that program and flash them my self and will it just add the esn for me into metros database or ? Because I would like to flash the phones also for cheaper then the guy here and make money my self :}. Ok any insite thanks for help
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Hi AtmosFEAR I could get one of the esteem but I just looked here real quick and I didn't even see a sub-forum for them :{ whats up with that ? I went into the corp store again tonight and I got someone who said if the phone is flashed they could do it so dial 611 and they here metro so he takes the phone and goes to scan the esn and nope. Not flashed by Houdini so no work. Now can I go and buy that program and flash them my self and will it just add the esn for me into metros database or ? Because I would like to flash the phones also for cheaper then the guy here and make money my self :}. Ok any insite thanks for help
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I have the lg revolution which is basically the esteem twin. There is dec work on the esteem can't tell you exactly how much though. I know they have cwm and at least themes. Idk about a rom though I believe someone is working on cm7. I will ask around irc tonight and let you know.
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I have the lg revolution which is basically the esteem twin. There is dec work on the esteem can't tell you exactly how much though. I know they have cwm and at least themes. Idk about a rom though I believe someone is working on cm7. I will ask around irc tonight and let you know.
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Thanks much and let me know
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Thanks much and let me know
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Like he said just get the Esteem, it's worth it and xda will soon, along with other forums & developers have a CM7 Rom for it soon enough. It's also supposed to get Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) so it's a good bet, I'll be getting mine this weekend
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Like he said just get the Esteem, it's worth it and xda will soon, along with other forums & developers have a CM7 Rom for it soon enough. It's also supposed to get Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) so it's a good bet, I'll be getting mine this weekend
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If the esteem gets an official ICS and the Revo doesn't I will be heated. It's an awesome phone but it is basically the Revo twin and the Revo got eoled the other day...
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well I checked it out and looks like a nice phone. I will be getting it in a week or less :} but untill then i would love to use the og droid for a while as the eris I have is just a slow beast :} and they added that esn at the corp store for 10 bucks ?? i don't get it lol
Now also does the esteem have root and all yet or what can we do with the phone out of the box as far as modding to to make it mine :}
Thanks guys
O just got done taling with my buddy in the revo irc (link in sig if you wanna talk to him)
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Haro|Prime> O haha. I'm in the app can't see dates. Also, spc how much dec work does the esteem have? Do you know? I know you are making a theme for them and they have cwm but that's about it.
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<spc_hicks09_> mt just put out a rom for them, Gingersteem. they have 2 kernels, one that can oc to 1700 then ours (their version) that can oc to 1500. someone else made the one that can oc to 1700
<spc_hicks09_> i think that's about it
<Haro|Prime> OK thanks. Guy in the DROID forums is trying to get the DROID on metro and someone entwined the esteem. I told him I would get dev info since I guess they don't have a forum yet
<spc_hicks09_> oh ok, yeah they got about as much going on as we do lol
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Made every other line red so it is easier to read.
Like I said ^^^^up there. Just come on over to the Revo IRC and you can talk to someone more knowledgable then me. mt is mtmichaelson and he is in there but not talking at the moment idk if he will be on at all tonight but he is on a lot so you might get a chance to talk to him about the ROM and kernels and such. Hope I helped
Thanks again and i will hop on the irc a little later night time soon here. and maybe i will sell the droid and the eris and get the esteem sooner but i would have to just flash the prl for verizon back and sell the eris to some one for what flashed to metro already and i can hook them up with mms and the net with it. i just dont know how much the 2 would be worth
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Thanks again and i will hop on the irc a little later night time soon here. and maybe i will sell the droid and the eris and get the esteem sooner but i would have to just flash the prl for verizon back and sell the eris to some one for what flashed to metro already and i can hook them up with mms and the net with it. i just dont know how much the 2 would be worth
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Depends on who you ask. Personally I will never get rid of my og droid I adore that phone. It popped my android/smart phone cherry and is just a brick of a device. Just will not die. I have dropped/thrown that phone so many times and it just comes back for more lol
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I kind of like it too and my buddy has one but if the only way i have to use it is to pay some one 90 dollars to do what i can do to it for the same price. I know he is useing cdma ws and im not going there. I just am mad I cant get the esn added easyer lol.
Do you want to buy the og for a spare :} lol I know the first owner of this one it was a 35 year old girls phone so its clean and has a case
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I kind of like it too and my buddy has one but if the only way i have to use it is to pay some one 90 dollars to do what i can do to it for the same price. I know he is useing cdma ws and im not going there. I just am mad I cant get the esn added easyer lol.
Do you want to buy the og for a spare :} lol I know the first owner of this one it was a 35 year old girls phone so its clean and has a case
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Lol. Nah. I just got this tablet so I'm broke lol. But the esteem has an irc aswell if you want to go there. It's just lgesteem and not lgrevolution fyi
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Fordkiller said:
I kind of like it too and my buddy has one but if the only way i have to use it is to pay some one 90 dollars to do what i can do to it for the same price. I know he is useing cdma ws and im not going there. I just am mad I cant get the esn added easyer lol.
Do you want to buy the og for a spare :} lol I know the first owner of this one it was a 35 year old girls phone so its clean and has a case
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I paid $60 for mine on Craigslist.. and yes the Esteem has root. I will be getting it soon enough lol