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My dad has the Sanyo Zio, and I'm looking to speed it up

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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Want tether w/out Root?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...pha-brings-usb-tethering-without-root-access/

Now if only this worked for wifi tether. Can't wait to tether my tablet to my vivid without fear of att changing my data plan.

flippage said:
Now if only this worked for wifi tether. Can't wait to tether my tablet to my vivid without fear of att changing my data plan.
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+ 1 I am suffering the same situation. I rooted my phone but can't find what app I can install and use so att doesn't make any more treats of changing my plan. Any suggestions?

Doesn't work don't wast your time and effort, there is no way around rooting your phone to get free tethering.

What about using PDAnet and uninstalling Carrier IQ (CIQ)? Anyone have some solid information on that?

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What about using PDAnet and uninstalling Carrier IQ (CIQ)? Anyone have some solid information on that?
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If you look under the development section there are two threads discussing how to remove ciq. Both methods work well.
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megatronisabeast said:
If you look under the development section there are two threads discussing how to remove ciq. Both methods work well.
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So removing ciq will keep them from seeing the tether??
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I don't know about that, thought you meant you wanted info about ciq. Sorry about that.
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Compatible Roms for the Vivid on Straight Talk.

Hello again all. My friend ended up purchasing the Vivid and we'll be activating it on Straight Talk shortly. My question now is this:
What roms are compatible? I see a lot of them with AT&T in the name/description. Would these be unusable? All I/she wants is to have a stable and preferably debloated ICS ROM. Everything else is gravy. Thoughts?
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YamiYaiba said:
Hello again all. My friend ended up purchasing the Vivid and we'll be activating it on Straight Talk shortly. My question now is this:
What roms are compatible? I see a lot of them with AT&T in the name/description. Would these be unusable? All I/she wants is to have a stable and preferably debloated ICS ROM. Everything else is gravy. Thoughts?
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All of them are usable. If you want a de-bloated ics rom try rum float by pirate ghost.

All you need are the correct APN settings and your good.

Ah, you all are a Godsend. I'm just used to doing things simply on Verizon, so all this is new to me. Time to get cracking!
Err....didn't he pull his roms?
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He is on a different site now. Just Google his name and rom.
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Security app?

My friend has a jailbroken iPhone and has a really cool app called Cylay (if you don't know what it is, Google it. In essence, it's an anti-theft app that can do a bunch of cool stuff). I was wondering if there was an equivalent in the Market (I refuse to call it by its new name)?
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Try cerberus
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A good one is SeekDroid.
It is on sale right now, you can locate phone, track it on a map, wipe the phone, etc. I think it is one worth looking at.

Preyproject.com has an app for android.

Actually, your HTC Sense account can do all that remote lock or wipe your phone, as well as geolocate via the website. It just has to be set up properly.
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Well then, how do I "set it up properly"?
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I wouldn't go the HTC Sense route, they sent out an email telling me to download my data because it's shutting down for a overhaul. Google it, you'll see. Besides it says it doesn't support ICS at this time anyways.
I have SeekDroid & Avast installed on my Vivid. SeekDroid you can control from internet or another phone, Avast can only be done via another phone, but has more features.

YamiYaiba said:
Actually, your HTC Sense account can do all that remote lock or wipe your phone, as well as geolocate via the website. It just has to be set up properly.
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HTC no longer supports these features through htcsense.com.

mileszim said:
Preyproject.com has an app for android.
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That's the one! I've tried it and even went on to pretend my phone was lost/stolen, and was able to locate on a map on my laptop with and without GPS active. I think its awesome. Also its free if you use for 1 device (or one device per account).
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Wheres my Droid pro is pretty nice, you can lock, unlock, make ring, locate, wipe phone, wipe SD, sim lock, and there's more stuff I just can't remember.
Oh and you can do this all via text message commands from any phone that texts, maybe even from sending a text via Facebook, or the wheres my Droid website if you set up commander.
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Deleted some bloat, now phone process crashes causing reboot

I am hating this phone about now.... Grrr. I put the deodexed att stock rom on, installed eqs, and epm, a custom uot theme, then installed all my apps from the market, restored all data to the apps with tb, then deleted bloat, wiped cache, and now phone process crashes for no freaking reason... This phone sucks
What did i do wrong?
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Cor-master said:
I am hating this phone about now.... Grrr. I put the deodexed att stock rom on, installed eqs, and epm, a custom uot theme, then installed all my apps from the market, restored all data to the apps with tb, then deleted bloat, wiped cache, and now phone process crashes for no freaking reason... This phone sucks
What did i do wrong?
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You must have deleted something important. Reflash will fix your problem.
Dont know how I liked your post lol, but here is one more thanks for the thanks meter.

I wiped data and it works again
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Was i not supposed to delete tethering guard? I thought that's what blocked tethering but now it seems it doesn't work at all
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Cor-master said:
Was i not supposed to delete tethering guard? I thought that's what blocked tethering but now it seems it doesn't work at all
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that doesnt block tethering it protects you from the carriers knowing that your tethering... for the future please post questions in the general

I just restored it with tb. All is good
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LMAO sorry guys I didn't realize I posted this in development. I usually don't make that noob mistake, but i was on tapatalk, must of hit the wrong forum. not the first time I've done that.

This phone is amazing. It's HTC and AT&T that suck.
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Monkeymannnn said:
This phone is amazing. It's HTC and AT&T that suck.
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No.. just AT&T
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