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Girl into Droid!

Hello everyone!
My name is Anastasia, I am 19 years old, from London.
Yesterday, I bought myself (thanks to my payday) a brand new Asus Google Nexus 7, 32gb, from Argos (shop).
I keep reading what you get with root, and it made me WANT to root it.
Here's my information:
Nexus 7
JOP40D
4.2.1
So, the tablet is brand new, and I HAVEN'T touched it, except when I downloaded few Apps. So, all I want, is to ROOT it in the safest and easiest way. I am scared that it brakes? Anyways, what is the FIRST step? I need it rooted and ready to rock. (Themes, Hide bar, etc.). What, Should, I, Do? Thanks a lot to everyone! I hope I can make it? Take care xoxo

Welcome to the NEXUS 7 BANDWAGON.
Did you want to root and stay stock ROM???
DEVICES:
NEXUS 7 32GB STOCK
(NO ROOT)
T-MOBIL LG G2X (LG-P999)
STOCK (ROOTED)
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I don't know? It's the Nexus 7 4.2.1 32gb WiFi version.
I want full themes (change nav bar color etc), GameCiH thingy, hum hide nav bar, and stuff like this. just these. the simplesy way to get these? thanks! Oh and safe of course xD what to do? its still brand new out of the boxxxxx cant wait to root! xoox

Astrocat said:
I don't know? It's the Nexus 7 4.2.1 32gb WiFi version.
I want full themes (change nav bar color etc), GameCiH thingy, hum hide nav bar, and stuff like this. just these. the simplesy way to get these? thanks! Oh and safe of course xD what to do? its still brand new out of the boxxxxx cant wait to root! xoox
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Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
Here you go. http://xda-university.com/.
That site will help you learn what you are doing.

U can try wugfresh toolkit. That's what i used and has the instructions with it. You will need to have adb set up. there video on YouTube showing steps to set it up with the nexus 7As for roms i have smoothrom installed u can change your theme with theme manager. U can download the themes from playmarket or on the xdA website.
Welcome the the nexus 7 community
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AFAinHD said:
Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
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Well thanks but how do I root it? Where do I start? Thanks! xx

Astrocat said:
Well thanks but how do I root it? Where do I start? Thanks! xx
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XDA-University I put the link in my last post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeawrtNpLeE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
That should help u. To root it and set up adb and install the SDK
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Yeah just use Wug's toolkit, it's pretty great.
And welcome to the forums.

AFAinHD said:
Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
Here you go. http://xda-university.com/.
That site will help you learn what you are doing.
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"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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Thanks anyways everyone. I'm sad now lol. I'm using MAC OSX and not windows. awwww

Astrocat said:
Thanks anyways everyone. I'm sad now lol. I'm using MAC OSX and not windows. awwww
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VaderSKN said:
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Made me laugh
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Get WUG's toolkit
You're lucky you didn't do too much on it... since IIRC rooting will wipe data

ROOTED! Used BOOTCAMP to use Windows on Mac. ETAT = Perfect! YAY ALL

VaderSKN said:
"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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Woah! Is that a brick? Nope. You can still go to the recovery partition and reflash a different kernel. Or you can boot to the bootloader and use fastboot to flash a new kernel. If you were bricked you would never be able to use your device again.

VaderSKN said:
"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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You're doing it wrong.
I've had 3 nexus devices and two galaxy S devices and I have NEVER had that happen. Ever.
Secondly that isn't a brick, that, at most, is a mild inconvenience.
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Astrocat said:
Hello everyone!
My name is Anastasia, I am 19 years old, from London.
Yesterday, I bought myself (thanks to my payday) a brand new Asus Google Nexus 7, 32gb, from Argos (shop).
I keep reading what you get with root, and it made me WANT to root it.
Here's my information:
Nexus 7
JOP40D
4.2.1
So, the tablet is brand new, and I HAVEN'T touched it, except when I downloaded few Apps. So, all I want, is to ROOT it in the safest and easiest way. I am scared that it brakes? Anyways, what is the FIRST step? I need it rooted and ready to rock. (Themes, Hide bar, etc.). What, Should, I, Do? Thanks a lot to everyone! I hope I can make it? Take care xoxo
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Now that is how you get a lot of people to reply to your question, open by saying you are a 19yr old girl, and closing with x's and o's.
Well played!
Edit: Welcome!
Be proud to be in the crack flashers club.
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Yea seriously... Anyone else would get a quick go F yourself and learn to read the forum rules bit. I do like the info this forum provides but it comes with a price called bad attitude from some members.

girls ?? on teh internetz ??
anyway welcome to teh android club !

Never use a toolkit, its just as easy to do with adb and fastboot, and you have minimal chance of breaking anything or having issues.
Guide to setting up adb and fastboot on mac: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
Guide to unlock bootloader and root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395
Hope that works out.
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Root incoming! Your plans after root?

Wifi tether and I'm going to install batakang and the joker ROMs to try them out. Oh yeah I'm going to back up root with voodoo ota root keeper as we all should do.
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TTLayland said:
Wifi tether and I'm going to install batakang and the joker ROMs to try them out. Oh yeah I'm going to back up root with voodoo ota root keeper as we all should do.
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Is it actually coming or just wishfill thinking?

I trust Dan Rosenberg when he says he will root a device.
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bluetooth wiimote for android games with hdmi is going to be awesome. wifi tether is gonna be nice too

jodybgoode said:
bluetooth wiimote for android games with hdmi is going to be awesome. wifi tether is gonna be nice too
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Very true I plan on the same thing but with the six axis controllers. I've held off on a new cable because of no root.
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I got a question if we get root does it mean we can flash roms or we need the bootloader unlocked too
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I also am excited for root.. I have Linux experience but don't have the posts to post in dev sections so will be glad to help..we need root badly

sickkside13 said:
I got a question if we get root does it mean we can flash roms or we need the bootloader unlocked too
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With safe strap we are able to. Jose is working on a app2sd program. Unlocked boot loader I have little hope for.
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Oh see now sorry for the dumb question i have other rooted devices but i never knew that Motorola had all this security lol
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Today today today today! I cannot wait!
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sd card swap

TTLayland said:
Wifi tether and I'm going to install batakang and the joker ROMs to try them out. Oh yeah I'm going to back up root with voodoo ota root keeper as we all should do.
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To backup the root... Do you just run the app?

My plans are to learn how to successfully flash a rom without bricking the phone.
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I'm backing up my root, getting some nice tweaks, trying out the Batakang ROM, and gonna learn more about development...If I'm smart enough lol

My plans are to add a reboot toggle and the 1% battery mod. I already saw Dan's root method for Jb but I kept running into errors. When I got to adb shell near the last step no matter what I tried it would tell me no directory of that name so I might wait until a one click root shows up. Shouldn't be long now that we actually have a root method.

Black_halo said:
My plans are to add a reboot toggle and the 1% battery mod. I already saw Dan's root method for Jb but I kept running into errors. When I got to adb shell near the last step no matter what I tried it would tell me no directory of that name so I might wait until a one click root shows up. Shouldn't be long now that we actually have a root method.
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Don't hold your breath.
Sent from my phone.

Black_halo said:
My plans are to add a reboot toggle and the 1% battery mod. I already saw Dan's root method for Jb but I kept running into errors. When I got to adb shell near the last step no matter what I tried it would tell me no directory of that name so I might wait until a one click root shows up. Shouldn't be long now that we actually have a root method.
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Copy and Paste is your friend.......
As long as you can booth into Linux just use Copy/Paste the whole time and pay attention when you have to create the password. This was super easy imo.

Markyzz said:
Don't hold your breath.
Sent from my phone.
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You never know what can happen. I was with the atrix 2 community about two phones ago and all there needs to be is a brave soul to root it and Roms will start coming. And the sooner it becomes rooted and unlocked(and we already have root now) the bigger the community will get. Ive seen it happen. Dont count the AHD and devs out so soon

Black_halo said:
You never know what can happen. I was with the atrix 2 community about two phones ago and all there needs to be is a brave soul to root it and Roms will start coming. And the sooner it becomes rooted and unlocked(and we already have root now) the bigger the community will get. Ive seen it happen. Dont count the AHD and devs out so soon
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Only if kexec works or somehow we unlock the bootloader. Otherwise dev for this phone will keep crawling
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Just gotta new 32g nexus 7!!!!

I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Haha calm down, look at wugfresh toolkit in the android development section.. It will help you root and unlock your nexus, then find a rom to flash
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Don't worry, the Nexus 7 is by far the easiest device to mod/flash/rom, IMHO. Wegfresh is by far my favorite.

Hi there,
If you got one than u have a fine taste. hehe. Its a brilliant piece of device. Congrats.
Regarding the flashing and stuff, gotta be honest, i have mine for two weeks now and still no flashing. It feels so great with stock mode still, so flashing will not happen for now. But good luck with it.
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Great purchase
You don‘t really need to root for general everyday usage. Stock Android is already free of crapware unlike most other builds that OEMs use.
Enjoy it

Don't use tool kits man just follow this guide you can't go wrong http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816048
I am rooted but running stock 4.2.2 with bricked kernel and its great enjoy your device
Still see myself as noob but i try and help. Don't say thanks hit the THANKS BUTTON

OP - Try searching the forums before creating a thread. There are dozens of threads about this already.

ynrozturk said:
OP - Try searching the forums before creating a thread. There are dozens of threads about this already.
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Everyone aint like me tho! Lol. Sorry 4 real...

I rooted with wugfresh. The drivers were a bit confusing but overall a good method. Anyway,im a flashaholic wen it coms to my galaxy note. Flapps roms are most stable. I have yet to find a rom that is stable with the nexus. I get a bunch of FCs with all roms. WHY!! They all look sexy as hell! They dont function right tho. Yes twrp is installed. Thats wat i run on my note. I might do a full restore then redo drivers. I might have got bad drivers or something is not intagrating well with a DL

harley1rocker said:
I rooted with wugfresh. The drivers were a bit confusing but overall a good method. Anyway,im a flashaholic wen it coms to my galaxy note. Flapps roms are most stable. I have yet to find a rom that is stable with the nexus. I get a bunch of FCs with all roms. WHY!! They all look sexy as hell! They dont function right tho. Yes twrp is installed. Thats wat i run on my note. I might do a full restore then redo drivers. I might have got bad drivers or something is not intagrating well with a DL
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What? You are probably forgetting to wipe in between ROMs.

Locked vs Unlocked/S-Off vs S-On, Pros and cons

Here is an interesting read about this from HTCdev, check it out!
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/about_unlock_process

letmeputdatipin said:
Here is an interesting read about this from HTCdev, check it out!
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/about_unlock_process
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did you expect them to say anything less? basically what they are saying is "we believe our consumers are too stupid to modify or otherwise personalize their devices, so as a result we have prevented you from access all software on your phone for your own good"

It reminds me of Liar Liar, "That's just something ugly people say to feel better about themselves."
"That's just something phone manufacturers say to feel something better about their software"
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Thats funny sh!t
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Theyre really just saying, we dont think you need it so why bother.

I'm debating about unlocking my phone and instal a Rom right now or wait and see. I usually root all phones but I was one of those dumbasses that flashed my EVO 3D with the virgin mobile version. Lucky me I didn't have most of the side effects people were complaining about. I just had the VM banners and some times text messages errors, but CM 10.1 make it go away.
Anyone have any cons about unlocking my phone and flash a rom right now or wait until we get S-Off if (ever happens).

rtoodeetwo said:
I'm debating about unlocking my phone and instal a Rom right now or wait and see. I usually root all phones but I was one of those dumbasses that flashed my EVO 3D with the virgin mobile version. Lucky me I didn't have most of the side effects people were complaining about. I just had the VM banners and some times text messages errors, but CM 10.1 make it go away.
Anyone have any cons about unlocking my phone and flash a rom right now or wait until we get S-Off if (ever happens).
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No cons from me. I unlocked and rooted within hours of purchasing. Have been on ViperROM for a couple of weeks now. I'm loving it.
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treetolber said:
No cons from me. I unlocked and rooted within hours of purchasing. Have been on ViperROM for a couple of weeks now. I'm loving it.
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Cool, I'm in the process of unlocking the phone.

For right now unlocked is all we need. It gives us access to all the needed parts(system, recovery, boot).
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Can anyone tell me if I unlock is that all I need to install roms or do I needto root as well?
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theeraser88 said:
Can anyone tell me if I unlock is that all I need to install roms or do I needto root as well?
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You need root as well!

theeraser88 said:
Can anyone tell me if I unlock is that all I need to install roms or do I needto root as well?
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you just need to unlock and install either twrp or cwm recovery.

From what I've read this really isn't a big deal. Nexus devices are not S-Off either. All this prevents you from flashing are the radio and bootloader which are not usually modified.

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From what I've read this really isn't a big deal. Nexus devices are not S-Off either. All this prevents you from flashing are the radio and bootloader which are not usually modified.
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True, although for asop, aokp. and other open source roms a different bootloader maybe required. For the evo 3d the ics bootloader that installed with the firmware from the ota would give bootloops if a asop or aokp rom was flashed.if as a user you would never flash anything other than custom roms for your current version of android then yes an unlocked bootloader is all you need. Another example was the htc flyer. That device shipped with gingerbread when htc released the ota for honeycomb every user was in a hurry to install it, many had flashers remorse and wished to go back to gingerbread. With s-on they were out of luck.

This phone has features we may never see in aosp. I'm holding off on that. Nothing wrong with sense5 though honestly, its way better than any previous versions so far

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you just need to unlock and install either twrp or cwm recovery.
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Incorrect. You need to flash a superuser app and its binaries as well.

this zip is supposed to turn off read/write protection Sprint_One_Root_Disable_System_RW_Protection (1).zip

I was thinking we are a rare bunch of folks that are control freaks that root our phones.
But it amazes me to see things like Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, ROM Manager apps very near the highest volume Android Apps in the Market !!!
These are obviously "Root" user apps.
Maybe it's because we wipe our phones so often we distort the statistics

I love how they say they don't allow s-off because of "warranty" reasons yet at the bottom of the page it says unlocking your device will render the warranty void. #likewhat
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True, although for asop, aokp. and other open source roms a different bootloader maybe required. For the evo 3d the ics bootloader that installed with the firmware from the ota would give bootloops if a asop or aokp rom was flashed.if as a user you would never flash anything other than custom roms for your current version of android then yes an unlocked bootloader is all you need. Another example was the htc flyer. That device shipped with gingerbread when htc released the ota for honeycomb every user was in a hurry to install it, many had flashers remorse and wished to go back to gingerbread. With s-on they were out of luck.
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This is somewhat false. The reason it was causing boot loops was because of the boot.img not flashing properly. It was required when the hboot got updated that we used a process such as "HTC dumblock" to flash the boot.img. Currently for our Ones we are fine because the hboot will allow proper flashing of the boot.img yet in the past, some future updates have blocked this feature. I for one will always want s-off. It gives me full control
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letmeputdatipin said:
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...and by flashing an internation firmware in case of One sold by sprint also the sim lock is removed?

[ROM TESTING] [PUBLIC] Anyone wanna test out a rom?

Hey guys!
A few of you may know me from the HTC EVO 4G LTE forums... and those people will also know that I am not on Sprint and therefore do not have this device. I have the Dev Edition of the One and am testing out a few things on my own for the international variant, and decided to make a variant for you guys
The rom is called "Rage Rom", it's a very popular rom on the Droid Razr and members of Team Rage are quickly making tons and tons of Rage Roms for many different devices. I believe we are over 20 supported devices (at least according to another team member) and are still going strong. For the HTC One, it has the standard Rage Tweaks except they are optimized for the HTC One, and I have added a few goodies of my own
A short list of features that will be included in the rom (there is a lot more than what I listed):
-Aroma installer
-fully deodexed
-based off Sprint 1.31 update
-slightly debloated
-zipalign on boot
-EQS via Power Toggles app
-Pie Controls via LMT app
-performance and battery optimizations
Things that need testing:
-the full wipe option in Aroma, I don't know if it works properly (if you are very cautious about your device I would not use it, just wipe manually) PWNED
-sometimes the extra mods in the aroma installer don't install and I have no idea why, other times they install just fine PWNED
-the performance of the rom and battery life
-if it boots or not PWNED
Post below or PM me for a download link and I'll send it to you ASAP. Thanks!
Download it here
If anyone has issues downloading, I'll upload to a mirror tomorrow. I'll put the changelog up tomorrow as well but really the only changes made were that the rom is a whole lot more stable now with a bunch of new performance tweaks
Thanks tjeeeeee for the fixed up build

I'll gladly test it
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Ill test also

I would love to test but am sad to say time doesn't allow the next few days to be an efficient tester.
I am looking forward to the final release :good:
Thanks for sharing!!

We've got 2 testers so far... Right now it seems pretty stable at the moment with the exception that there are a few force closes. Anyone else willing to try this out?
naturecannon said:
I would love to test but am sad to say time doesn't allow the next few days to be an efficient tester.
I am looking forward to the final release :good:
Thanks for sharing!!
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No problem man
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I'm game. Any requirments prior to flashing?
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Sign me up..
I'm down to test, I'm S-OFF on the latest radio for sprint (also a spare phone) PM Me the links .....

Shoot me a link, I really use my phone heavily so I make a good candidate
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sailio said:
I'm game. Any requirments prior to flashing?
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Only the usual; have an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery lol

utkaar099 said:
Only the usual; have an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery lol
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As I have those, I'm good to go. Up to you
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Can I get some Rage Rom love?

I've been wanting this for a while!

sailio said:
I'm game. Any requirments prior to flashing?
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Only the usual; have an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery lol
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And be able to produce and send a logcat to dev

i'll try hun

a senile fungus said:
And be able to produce and send a logcat to dev
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Oh right haha almost forgot

well i don't know about anyone else, but when installing, it doesn't boot up, aroma says
format() expects 5 args, got 4
Installer status 7- not sure if this is relevant
doesn't seem to install properly though
will download again and try again though

Link me please will beat the Rom up n report back
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fixin to flash right now, Ill be back,,,,,

drlzanej said:
fixin to flash right now, Ill be back,,,,,
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i'd hold off for a moment, doesn't properly flash via aroma, utkaar is going to fix it soon

Yeah bro i got that a little too late. Sat at installing 0.0% for about 10 mins. Still excited to see what this rom brings tho
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