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development- unlock the bootloader

I want to take another stab at unlocking the bootloader, I see the forums seem to be next to dead and i believe if we can successfuly unlock this thing it will breath a bit of new life into our device. anyone who is willing to help and has some information to share please post it here. ive got a few ideas on people to talk to.
until then
lets brain storm

Not trying to be a negative Nancy but why? We got Kexec but just a lack of good developers.
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MrObvious said:
Not trying to be a negative Nancy but why? We got Kexec but just a lack of good developers.
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Because we have a pretty good device, and development was great for a while but the bootloader has kept this device from being truly great for a long time. i think if we can crack it it would bring back some development. and not only that but if we can find a way to crack this maybe we can put our information forward to other motorola devices with the same issue. id love to have the kernel options, and variety of roms available ive had on past devices. the og evo was awesome for that one reason. and i honestly believe its possible....

idontwanttobeanoob said:
Because we have a pretty good device, and development was great for a while but the bootloader has kept this device from being truly great for a long time. i think if we can crack it it would bring back some development. and not only that but if we can find a way to crack this maybe we can put our information forward to other motorola devices with the same issue. id love to have the kernel options, and variety of roms available ive had on past devices. the og evo was awesome for that one reason. and i honestly believe its possible....
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An unlocked bootloader would make no difference. With kexec we can bypass and use a custom kernel anyways. However the custom kernel is still in development as motorola never released an ics/JB kernel
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idontwanttobeanoob said:
I want to take another stab at unlocking the bootloader, I see the forums seem to be next to dead and i believe if we can successfuly unlock this thing it will breath a bit of new life into our device. anyone who is willing to help and has some information to share please post it here. ive got a few ideas on people to talk to.
until then
lets brain storm
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Lmao

I think it would be great to crack the bootloader. However, has any phone with a locke bootloader been cracked without a leak from the manufacturer?
Moto must be using pretty large bit keys to lock the bootloader. You'll have to be lucky to crack it, not good.

I don't really see the actually bootloader lock changing in anyway. As said above kexec is a good system, just have to be patient.

The-Captain said:
I don't really see the actually bootloader lock changing in anyway. As said above kexec is a good system, just have to be patient.
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Patient for what? Hashcode himself said "What do you want me to improve on JB for D3?!". I don't really see D3 getting camera on 4.x anymore

DoubleYouPee said:
Patient for what? Hashcode himself said "What do you want me to improve on JB for D3?!". I don't really see D3 getting camera on 4.x anymore
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He didn't specify camera in OP. I don't care about camera TBH. I have an actual camera I carry around. I though he wanted 4.2
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He didn't specify camera in OP. I don't care about camera TBH. I have an actual camera I carry around. I though he wanted 4.2
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well glad to see my dumb post has gotten a bit of attention.... lol
id not touched my d3 since long before kexec, found it in a drawer and got a bit carried away.
went back and looked into kexec after everyone mentioned it and i agree its a pretty good system so im gonna start doing my research and see if there is anything i might be able to do.
sorry guys

idontwanttobeanoob said:
well glad to see my dumb post has gotten a bit of attention.... lol
id not touched my d3 since long before kexec, found it in a drawer and got a bit carried away.
went back and looked into kexec after everyone mentioned it and i agree its a pretty good system so im gonna start doing my research and see if there is anything i might be able to do.
sorry guys
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Focus on the camera.
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The-Captain said:
He didn't specify camera in OP. I don't care about camera TBH. I have an actual camera I carry around. I though he wanted 4.2
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Amen. Motorola DROID 3's camera is a total bs anyways.

Hey guys, can anyone tell me in a nutshell what's wrong with our D3's cam? For example It doesn't work under CM7. Is it that special?
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paleee said:
Hey guys, can anyone tell me in a nutshell what's wrong with our D3's cam? For example It doesn't work under CM7. Is it that special?
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For CM7 you need a 3rd party app like camera 360

I know that we have Kexec on D3, but I'm going to try an experiment on the Bootloader this weekend to see if I can unlock it. Reason being other devices do not have kexec and something crazy happened last night at work. In short, I cracked an AES encryption on a Motorola Radio(the ones Ambulances use). I know that may not sound like much, but I think I might have a way to do the same method on the Bootloaders for our Motorola Phones. I don't wanna go into too many details on it, but I'll try to get you guys a response next week sometime.
Please lol no trolling, I just like trying things. Chances are the method may not work.

Peperm1nt said:
I know that we have Kexec on D3, but I'm going to try an experiment on the Bootloader this weekend to see if I can unlock it. Reason being other devices do not have kexec and something crazy happened last night at work. In short, I cracked an AES encryption on a Motorola Radio(the ones Ambulances use). I know that may not sound like much, but I think I might have a way to do the same method on the Bootloaders for our Motorola Phones. I don't wanna go into too many details on it, but I'll try to get you guys a response next week sometime.
Please lol no trolling, I just like trying things. Chances are the method may not work.
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Good luck

Peperm1nt said:
I know that we have Kexec on D3, but I'm going to try an experiment on the Bootloader this weekend to see if I can unlock it. Reason being other devices do not have kexec and something crazy happened last night at work. In short, I cracked an AES encryption on a Motorola Radio(the ones Ambulances use). I know that may not sound like much, but I think I might have a way to do the same method on the Bootloaders for our Motorola Phones. I don't wanna go into too many details on it, but I'll try to get you guys a response next week sometime.
Please lol no trolling, I just like trying things. Chances are the method may not work.
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Hopefully waiting
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Might buy this. Opinions on it?

Your guys thoughts on it? What should I expect, and how easy is it to unlock? I have past experience in unlocking and flashing stuff, as I'm coming from the Xperia Play.
EDIT - Didn't think of this when posting it, but how about some unlocked ROMs too. Preferably running at the latest Android version and is nice and fast but good battery life.

Its a nexus. Very easy to unlock, root, and install loads of custom roms and kernels.
However its rumored that there might be a new model announced soon. Something is happening June 10th. I'd advise to wait till then at least.
Otherwise the current N7 is awesome.
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I was also coming from the Xperia PLAY when i bought this tablet, i think about 2 months ago.
It was agood choice!
You get always the latest updates and there are a lot of great mods on the forum!

If you're coming from the Xperia Play than it's almost similar. With the Nexus 7 you can go into fastboot without your Windows/Mac/Linux. Just press the power button and the volume down button and you're into fastboot. The best tool to unlock/root/recovery is Wug's Nexus toolkit. And i've you're searchin' for an awesome experience then go for Paranoid Android and Franco.Kernel!

Yea man, it's a nexus, all new android content will either originate here or immediately be ported to us. It's incredible for the price. I might be jaded though, seeing as I'm coming from a Motorola DROID X2 as my only android device.

Thanks for the opinion guys! As soon as I get another $60, I'm gonna be buying this bad boy. Also, I was in the OG Android Dev section, and I noticed a nice ROM called XenonHD. It looked pretty nice. How's that compared to PAC? And on my X-Play I have SlimBean, and I did notice there was a SlimBean ROM for the N7.

player911 said:
However its rumored that there might be a new model announced soon. Something is happening June 10th. I'd advise to wait till then at least.
Otherwise the current N7 is awesome.
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Disagree. One should enjoy his device and never care about something that does not yet exist.
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Dark Spark said:
Disagree. One should enjoy his device and never care about something that does not yet exist.
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There is some virtue in patience when it comes to technology, but the game changes so fast in 6 months there'll be a new thing that's better anyway so why worry? Also, I don't put stock in rumors. A new Nexus 7 might come before the end of the year, I think but maybe it'll be a 2 year stay like the Xoom was. I'm considering this current Nexus 7 to replace my aging A500. It looks super smooth even on 4.2.2 so I think I'd be happy with it.

Bought it, comes in tomorrow Can't wait to play with it. Also, where should I go about getting the drivers? I downloaded Wugs tool, isn't there an option to download drivers from that?

DubleJayJ said:
Bought it, comes in tomorrow Can't wait to play with it. Also, where should I go about getting the drivers? I downloaded Wugs tool, isn't there an option to download drivers from that?
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You won't regret buying it! I think you can get the drivers from Wugs but be very very careful using kits to unlock and root. Read the directions at least 3 times before doing anything. I've seen many posts about problems after using rooting kits. If you look it up its actually easier using adb to unlock and root.

DubleJayJ said:
Bought it, comes in tomorrow Can't wait to play with it. Also, where should I go about getting the drivers? I downloaded Wugs tool, isn't there an option to download drivers from that?
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Wug's toolkit is the best. You won't be needing anything else, really. Just read the instructions carefully.

Just got a Nexus, have some questions

Hi,
I was really hoping the rumors would have been true and the Nexus 7 2 would have been announced. I was ready to pre-order last week. That didn’t happen so I pulled the trigger on the current Nexus 7. While I'm disappointed that I didn't get to get the brand new one I am VERY happy with it so far. I also got the official Nexus dock and a keyboard case. I have to say the official dock is so great I may buy a 2nd one! It’s overpriced but soooo nice.
Anyway, one thing I want to do right away is be able to get and send SMS texts from my phone on my N7. I have a Droid Razr Maxx by the way. What is the best software to do this?
Is there a free way to turn on the wireless tether on my Razr so I can connect my N7 to it? I also play Ingress and it would be cool to be able to use the N7 for that.
I'm not ready to root and try a custom ROM yet but what are some of the "must have" apps for the N7? Any info would be great!
Thanks
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Droid9 said:
While I'm disappointed that I didn't get to get the brand new one I am VERY happy with it so far.
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lol the "new one" doesn't even exist, the disappointment is unfounded for the time being

lolcopter said:
lol the "new one" doesn't even exist, the disappointment is unfounded for the time being
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Well yes but I think we all know there will be a new one sometime in the next 6 months.

Droid9 said:
Well yes but I think we all know there will be a new one sometime in the next 6 months.
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Possibly, but being mad about not being able to buy something which doesn't even exist yet is a waste of time and energy

lolcopter said:
Possibly, but being mad about not being able to buy something which doesn't even exist yet is a waste of time and energy
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He didn't say he was mad. He was hoping for a new release, there wasn't so he just bought what was available now.
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Save the disappointment for when the new version is actually released I guess
Current logic is flawed, that's all. I'll shut up now, carry on.
FWIW OP, I was expecting an updated OS, when that didn't happen I unlocked, rooted, and began flashing whatever I wanted

redmonke255 said:
He didn't say he was mad. He was hoping for a new release, there wasn't so he just bought what was available now.
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Exactly. I wasn't going to buy the current one until after the big Google announcement. That would just be dumb. But again, I love this device so lets stop talking about "what if" or "when it does come out"... I want to talk about the cool things this one can do.
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Since its brand new, i'd recommend unlocking and rooting right away, just to get that out of the way should you wish to flash stuff later. Better to do it early since unlocking wipes everything and there's little data to keep that early. Having said that, I just finally unlocked/rooted after months of ownership and replacing all the data was trivial. Just a recommendation.
It's a very capable tablet completely stock, I just like tweaking things and the tablet UI is cool IMO.

lolcopter said:
Since its brand new, i'd recommend unlocking and rooting right away, just to get that out of the way should you wish to flash stuff later. Better to do it early since unlocking wipes everything and there's little data to keep that early. Having said that, I just finally unlocked/rooted after months of ownership and replacing all the data was trivial. Just a recommendation.
It's a very capable tablet completely stock, I just like tweaking things and the tablet UI is cool IMO.
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Can you direct me to the easiest unlocking instructions?

Droid9 said:
Can you direct me to the easiest unlocking instructions?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
Used this yesterday it worked perfectly, just follow the instructions, fix the drivers etc and it's a cakewalk

Droid9 said:
Can you direct me to the easiest unlocking instructions?
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I think Wugs tool is pretty easy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475

Galaxy S5 Play edition

Apparently a play edition of the S5 is coming pretty soon since google started changing it's images on the listing for the S4 to images from the S5
I'm switching to their rom the day it gets ripped and posted for us to download
who else?

I was just about to post this. Yes it looks like it is imminent.
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Yeah, and the rom from that phone should be an awesome one, all the features, none of the bloatware ^_^

Crap. I was hoping for this yesterday. I made a huge mistake on accepting some update that hit the phone today. It's about 42MB but nothing huge changed it appears. Looks like it was just for the screen casting dongle.

goodboynyc said:
Crap. I was hoping for this yesterday. I made a huge mistake on accepting some update that hit the phone today. It's about 42MB but nothing huge changed it appears. Looks like it was just for the screen casting dongle.
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how exactly is this a mistake?

Woo! Should get to keep our fingerprint scanner and get rid off TW!
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WarDrake said:
how exactly is this a mistake?
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I'm not sure if i can root with it now. I'm, assuming this update patched some exploits.

declan8888 said:
Woo! Should get to keep our fingerprint scanner and get rid off TW!
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exactly what i was thinking
plus we still get to keep all the S health functionality, since it's a selling point for the device, i like my pedometer
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I'm not sure if i can root with it now. I'm, assuming this update patched some exploits.
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while there are bug fixes, i highly doubt they'll patch the particular exploit that allows us to root, and if they do, Chainfire will find another exploit in a matter of days, specially since the kernel source is available, so you'll always be able to root, don't worry about that.

I took a plunge and I managed to root the device with ChainFire. Now to wait for the GS5 Playstore edition

I wonder if all of those S5 models will make the porting of the playstore version harder?
Also, what's up with all those versions? Are they baseband-related only (aside from the ones with different processors)?

Safestrap! Could we keep it alive?

Hello everyone,
As you all know, Hashcode has stopped supporting safestrap (as he mentioned in his last post in the safestrap thread. Good luck to him on his new career and many many thanks for the amazing safestrap). Now it's time for our existing developers to chime in and get the lead and keep the project running for us (at least the AT&T note 3 community. If they can go further, that's even better). I'm asking all of my friends/brothers here on the note 3 community that have the skills for it to jump in and mess with safestrap and see what they can do. I know for sure that we have a very good number of very smart devs here who can definitely make something happen.
Thank you in advance!

K-Alzwayed said:
Hello everyone,
As you all know, Hashcode has stopped supporting safestrap (as he mentioned in his last post in the safestrap thread. Good luck to him on his new career and many many thanks for the amazing safestrap). Now it's time for our existing developers to chime in and get the lead and keep the project running for us (at least the AT&T note 3 community. If they can go further, that's even better). I'm asking all of my friends/brothers here on the note 3 community that have the skills for it to jump in and mess with safestrap and see what they can do. I know for sure that we have a very good number of very smart devs here who can definitely make something happen.
Thank you in advance!
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Questions! Could we keep them in the correct forum?
Lol. Note 4 is coming out. Safestrap would be wanted more over there as it will arrive completely stock and locked down. SS for Note 3 seems to be working perfectly fine the way it is. However, I don't use it much anymore.

Delakit said:
Questions! Could we keep them in the correct forum?
Lol. Note 4 is coming out. Safestrap would be wanted more over there as it will arrive completely stock and locked down. SS for Note 3 seems to be working perfectly fine the way it is. However, I don't use it much anymore.
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Well, that's true, but we are also gonna be getting more updates. We are not going to just stay on 4.4.2 forever, right? Lol

Both of you have great point but it's not who needs it more. We all need it for our devices. I hope we can find someone to pick up the torch.
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The only reason we would need an update is if we were to get Android L, but I'm not holding my breath for that one, specially since the note 4 is supposed to be released with kit kat, and then it will probably update to L. It would be awesome if we would get the android update!
RoloRacer on DynamiKat Note3

I don't understand how come people don't expect high spec flagship devices to get updates.... We will have it.
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mrkhigh said:
I don't understand how come people don't expect high spec flagship devices to get updates.... We will have it.
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I always wonder the same. Once a new phone comes out, people think their current phone is garbage. Note 3 will still be a flagship kickass phone for at least 4 years from now IMO. Very high specs that can keep up with so many updated to come.

Every phone I've ever had I had the latest os long before it was officially released. I'm not waiting on att for it.

K-Alzwayed said:
Well, that's true, but we are also gonna be getting more updates. We are not going to just stay on 4.4.2 forever, right? Lol
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None that will be affective enough. Who knows, especially with what I've seen in the past, we could very well stay on 4.4.2 forever.
lildoggs said:
Both of you have great point but it's not who needs it more. We all need it for our devices. I hope we can find someone to pick up the torch.
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Nobody really needs it. It's a desire, correct? Regardless, I'm fairly certain that people will be grabbing the Note 4 and checking for any immediate possibilities. Time will tell.

Delakit said:
None that will be affective enough. Who knows, especially with what I've seen in the past, we could very well stay on 4.4.2 forever.
Nobody really needs it. It's a desire, correct? Regardless, I'm fairly certain that people will be grabbing the Note 4 and checking for any immediate possibilities. Time will tell.
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I highly doubt that there will be root for the note 4 right away. It will definitely take a very long time if not never.

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I highly doubt that there will be root for the note 4 right away. It will definitely take a very long time if not never.
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I can guarantee there won't be root for quite some time. That's why I stated that people will want Safestrap on Note 4, not the Note 3 that already has a fairly stable version. Stable enough, that is. Time will tell.

Why do we guarantee no root. You people make statements without merit
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Gezzz lots of older phones still get updates. I'm still thinking at some point we will see a bootloader hack

No worries. The Alliance Team is gonna try to pick up SS for everyone.

RErick said:
No worries. The Alliance Team is gonna try to pick up SS for everyone.
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Hells to the yes. NOW I feel good. Thank you so much.

RErick said:
No worries. The Alliance Team is gonna try to pick up SS for everyone.
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thanks a lot peopple..... !!!!!