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Please HELP!!! How to root DS7 Honeycomb 3.2 without Clockworkmod Recovery?

You cant, 3.2 has no known exploits at the moment.

konikg said:
Please HELP!!! How to root DS7 Honeycomb 3.2 without Clockworkmod Recovery?
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What reason is there for rooting yet not installing a custom recovery?

Since I've never really seen any good use of CW other than flashing it might be just as sensible to ask "why add custom recovery to a rooted device?"
I rooted my Archos tablet almost a year ago but never felt a need for a custom recovery on it. If there was a way to root HC on my Streak I'd have done that instead of the CW + flash method that's needed now.
My Archos stock recovery had a bunch of useful things like reset touchscreen, an fdisk like repair disc utility and some other useful things. None of which show up with CW which might make me reconsider its usefulness.
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I"ve had a variety of tablets. The only tablet I've ever had that I needed to root and install a custom rom was the Viewsonic G-Tablet(Bad UI). I think some folks just like to tinker and getting the most out of their gadgets. At this point I see no reason to root my DS7.

If you're fine with not being able to do much of anything but play games on your device there is not much reason to root... but say you live internationally and need to modify the build.prop or say you want ad hoc support.... or say you wanna get rid of all the BS bloatware that comes with your device, you can only do that with root, or applything custom themes, only with root...
As far as custom recovery, well there are updates, and overclocking, and modifications and theming, and all those things can be more easily done with a custom recovery than pushing with adb, IMHO, but some are tried and true to adb
So it's all about the user.... I'm a tweaker, I can't stand anything in its factory form because we all know it leaves the factory with set back parameters, whether it's your cell phone or the car you drive everyday, there's always room for tweaking

Root.... but no ROM?

Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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Crepusculi said:
Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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From my experiences in the forum for a few months..
Backups are your friend Just incase anything doesn't like running on stock and messes things up.
Its kind of hard to fully brick a Bionic. There are FXZ files out there to recover it back to stock.
I would recommend using safestrap and dual booting roms so you can have your stock "unsafe" system and then whatever rom you want to experiment with on your "safe" system. You can always revert between the two.
Im sure there is a way to safestrap your second "safe" system as stock blur, i've just never done it because I like Eclipse 2.2

I had my phone rooted for a couple months on stock along with using some apps that required root. Never had any problems except for using root due to an update and the rooted apps thus not working until I restored root.

Crepusculi said:
Is there any danger to rooting my phone, but not flashing a ROM? I've had some bad experiences with flashing ROMs before on an older phone, and am a bit wary this time around with a newer phone. I still plan on all the "usual" root things (acceleration, ad blocking, etc.), but i want to make sure i won't end up with a brick.
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Nope nothing wrong with not using a ROM. But make sure you back up anyway just to be safe.

I would think with just a rooted phone,,,the only area of concern would be loosing root in the event of an OTA update. That certainly seems to be the case with everything I've read so far, and even on other platforms other than the Bionic.
Even if something went wrong,,would not a factory restore then re-root get you right back to square one?
@ priddyma: What would you suggest to make a backup? CWM?

Cwm or safestrap. For what you want to do cwm is fine. Voodoo it's rootkeeper will allow you to keep root through otas.
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[Q] Droid 4 as a new phone?

Hey guys,
I have a Samsung Epic 4G on Cricket that I flashed and trying to make the jump back to the Droid -- since I loved my OG Droid.
Having messed and mucked around with the Epic and Samsung, they're NOTORIOUSLY hard to brick -- I've brought quite a few back from the dead.
So a few quick questions (I asked a few about half a year ago):
1. What is the status of GSM on the Droid 4? If I unlock the radio and then put something like CM10 on it, do I need to configure anything inside that ROM to utilize it, i.e. like APN's, etc? Or does it "just work" (TM)? Thinking of going StraightTalk and already have a MicroSIM card.
2. How is the phone in terms of developer-friendly... re: hard to brick? I know with my Epic, if it died, I could just pull the battery, discharge, and then plug in a data cable to instantly push it into recovery mode (via button press-configuration) and I can just push a new image onto it. Is this similarly easy?
3. How difficult is it to get ready for custom ROMs, etc? Looks like if I'm on ICS, I can just use the toolkit to root, etc, right?
If anyone has any background from any of the Samsung phones and their experiences, that'd be awesome... But hopefully I will be joining you guys' ranks in the next few days (or tonight)...

well, importantly, if you flash ics and try to go back to gingerbread the wrong way, you have a paperweight--with the fastest keyboard on any paperweight ever--that won't do you any good

AFAIK, the only way to permanently brick these phones is if you wreck the bootloader, which is pretty tough to do unless you are trying...
Even trying to go back to gingerbread will only result in a softbrick, which can be recovered relatively easily by fastbooting ICS
I also have a factory cable, perhaps in the misguided belief that it will do something more, but I've never had the occasion to use it.

terinfire said:
1. What is the status of GSM on the Droid 4? If I unlock the radio and then put something like CM10 on it, do I need to configure anything inside that ROM to utilize it, i.e. like APN's, etc? Or does it "just work" (TM)? Thinking of going StraightTalk and already have a MicroSIM card.
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If you are in the USA then forget about GSM for now. If you are in any other country it will work. A list of carriers that have actually been tested is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28647511&postcount=3
2. How is the phone in terms of developer-friendly... re: hard to brick? I know with my Epic, if it died, I could just pull the battery, discharge, and then plug in a data cable to instantly push it into recovery mode (via button press-configuration) and I can just push a new image onto it. Is this similarly easy?
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There's ways to brick it, but these days if you are just planning on messing with roms, not baseband or bootloaders, then just install Safestrap recovery which lets your dual/multi boot between the stock ROM and other ROMs of your choice, leave the stock ROM alone, and you'll be fine.
3. How difficult is it to get ready for custom ROMs, etc? Looks like if I'm on ICS, I can just use the toolkit to root, etc, right?
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Yes, root with that script, install Safestrap.apk, run it as root, you now have a working recovery.

[Q] Unlocked and Rooted - Now what?

I just finished unlocking and rooting my phone. I've installed Titanium Backup and it recognizes the root.
Here is what I'd like to do:
1. Flash ROM's - I rooted my wife's Nook Color a few years ago (just to get Google Play on it for her) and never really messed with it after that. I did do an SD card boot of CM7 but that was really simple. What I'm getting at is I've never really flashed a ROM in Android before and need a step by step guide for this device. If there is such a procedure I can't find it so if anyone has a link or can help out that would be great.
2. Get around my carriers (AT&T) tethering restrictions. I want to be able to use my phone as a WiFi hotspot while traveling with my kids so they can use their iPods to "do their thing" while we are on trips etc. Is this possible without having to pay for it?
3. Get rid of the bloatware on my phone.
Any help (links etc) are greatly appreciated.

You should S-Off your Vivid as well. Its easy and will make the installing custom ROMs easier. Make sure you read AND understand the instructions first. And remember this is not necessary.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576668
Here is all of the current ROMs/Kernels/MODS/etc on XDA. Just browse through and decide whether youd like to use ICS or JB. Try them out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024
As far as tethering that is ROM specific. Some do, so dont but you can try this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001302
Hope this helps
HTC VIVID ICS 4.0.4 SENSE 4.1

Just what I was looking for.
Great stuff!!!!
Thanks

[Q] How do I safely root and use Xposed? Also, best way of recovery?

Hi there! I've been using HTC Desire 500 for almost two years, and I've decided to root it, but I want to do it the safest way possible. Also, I'd like to know, in case it gets bricked, how can I reinstall the Android on it through PC.
I've heard of the OneClickRoot way, is it safe? Has anyone tested it yet? I'd want to test it, but I am just scared of loosing my phone (hard bricking it). On TF101 I did hard brick it once and I had no recovery, but for that tablet there is a special application (EasyFlasher) which I used to bring it back to life, so now it's all good. Is there any software similar to it? And is the latest version of Xposed safe or install or there's a special version I should use?
Thank you!