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AllDroid tweets @ 8:40am CST:
@mrweeeedbirdman boots alternate recovery on the DroidX. http://tiny.cc/BirdmanAltRecoveryOnDX Please RT.
I believe that deserves a **** YEAH!
jvward said:
I believe that deserves a **** YEAH!
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lol 10chars
At the risk of looking like a moron.. why is this exciting, exactly?
lowkee said:
At the risk of looking like a moron.. why is this exciting, exactly?
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It's all good man. Basically...with the encrypted bootloader, only "official" roms would allow the phone to boot. So if a custom rom was flashed, it would stay in recovery mode. With this, if everything goes right, the custom recovery will allow the flashing of roms and booting back into android. Hope that makes sense.
No risk. We're all here to help and learn.
The reason this is exciting is that it is the first step towards custom ROMs.
To explain further: Recovery is used on a stock phone to help you recover when you have screwed something up by taking you back to the same state the phone was in when you first unboxed it by loading the stock ROM. Loading a custom recovery, if 100% successful would then allow you to load custom ROMs. However, the X also has encryption that requires a signature on the ROM that is loaded before it will actually boot the phone with the custom ROM.
I think there is some stuff that I missed here but this is the general idea.
The one thing I'm not 100% certain of is if they're going need to work on the encryption still or if a custom recovery gets around that. In this case for some reason I'm getting the sense that the encryption isn't stopping birdman.
all i can say is gimmmmeeeeeeeeee
Great job, keep up the good work. Patiently waiting.
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Koush just tweeted a pic of clockwork recovery on the Dx
Clockwork recovery on droid x... http://yfrog.com/n2hiuj
via koush
Koush also deserves a **** YEAH!
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Koush also deserves a **** YEAH!
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This is huge. We should see custom ROMs shortly after we see a released CR.
Unfortunately, we'll only see custom roms with stock kernels, which isn't quite ideal. I'm still enthusiastic about this though.
True, but we will get a 2.2 kernel when Froyo is released for the X and that will make things just that much better.
I say we look at the fact that we're going to get custom ROMs on a device that is supposed to be totally locked down, even though we will not have custom kernels.
I realize we're not going to be able to truly load an overclocked our undervolted kernel. But the custom ROMs are going to rock.
Please pardon my noobiness here, but how does the kernel affect the roms we can load? Mainly can I load a CM 2.2 rom?
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Roms are in the future but kernels no
kernels not only help.you over clock but it effects the UI also but yea we can expect to see CM because of KOUSH
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Please pardon my noobiness here, but how does the kernel affect the roms we can load? Mainly can I load a CM 2.2 rom?
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Nspbass - the kernel is what talks to all of the hardware on your phone and we would have to have an unlocked bootloader to put custom kernels on the phone. To load a custom ROM without a custom kernel means someone has to port CM 2.2 over to the X by making it work on a 2.1 kernel and we won't have a true version of Froyo.
However, when we get the 2.2ota update our rockstar devs will very likely get under the covers and give us a full 2.2 version.
One the + side they do have a dev phone that has 2.2.1 on it so we may see it sooner than we think.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: Check this out - we MAY be able to load alternate kernels in the future without unlocking the bootloader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aMPUcY71Yc
HUGE PROPS to Birdman and Alldroid!
Latest from koush:
"koush: Nandroid worked on the Droid X. Trying to figure out why I don't have adb in "recovery" now though."
Seriously, nandroid backups are priceless. Great to see that koush is working this!
Its been like 6 days since they loaded clockworkmod recovery and nothing has come out yet...there may be major issues, at this rate official group will be out sooner.
Just wish motorola would have left it stock android like they did the d1
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I know someone who doesn't want to mess around with CWM and rooting, just wants to flash a good ROM without TouchWiz. I couldn't find a ROM in the Android Development subforum that was both Odin-flashable and TouchWiz-free. Does anyone know of one?
Thanks
Only rom free of TW is CyanogenMOD. The others just replace the launcher but TW is still running in the background.
OK, thanks. Too bad the SGS isn't really supported yet.
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OK, thanks. Too bad the SGS isn't really supported yet.
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Lol and with the s 2 out very soon will it ever be! Samsung are holding back the tech so they can sell some more phones. Fortunately we have CM7....
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What happened to Rock Steady CM7 with Sense? The thread is closed and the download links don't work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003069
Is there any way to get CM7 for the Hero with Sense?
If not, there is Gingerbread with Sense. I found Sensible Gingerbread on the Wiki.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059481
When I flashed the ROM earlier it would not work, but I'll try again later.
Check out the Hero Development forum. There's a gingerbread ROM with sense 3.5 called Zero Hero. I don't even like sense on our Heros and i think its pretty sweet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287844
Thanks, I saw that and tried it. Is the browser the only thing that doesn't work?
M-man10 said:
Thanks, I saw that and tried it. Is the browser the only thing that doesn't work?
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If the browser doesn't work download Opera or Dolphin. Will work just fine. We optimized that rom to run pretty damn good in these old heros. Just don't fill up the home screens and tons of apps or it will bog down.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll try Dolphin since I've used it before and it was okay. I don't know why, but I prefer the original Browser.
EDIT: Oh and btw, WiFi was not working for me on Zero Hero Sense. Is there a way to fix that?
hey just an fyi we dont talk about rocksteady around here the guy who made the ports was bannanas to say the least matt knows what im talking about lol.
Oh ok sorry.
The Sensible Gingerbread says to flash FR-recovery. What is that? I currently have ROM Manager and the Clockwork Recovery. Whenever I try to flash Sensible Gingerbread with that, it reboots into recovery every time I try to reboot it.
firates is just a tool that partitions your sd card for better memory management theres a thread in development on how to set it up.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll try Dolphin since I've used it before and it was okay. I don't know why, but I prefer the original Browser.
EDIT: Oh and btw, WiFi was not working for me on Zero Hero Sense. Is there a way to fix that?
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reboot will fix this
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Bierce22 said:
hey just an fyi we dont talk about rocksteady around here the guy who made the ports was bannanas to say the least matt knows what im talking about lol.
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I see almost another one
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Is there something different that I need to do for Sensible Gingerbread than I do for most roms?
The original thread says
How to install(might be a waste of time)
wipe ALL, flash FR-recovery, wipe ALL, reboot recovery, flash ROM, reboot. It is also recommended that you have an s-off bootloader, since FR is a recovery modification. It installed fine for the testers, so YMMV. But be warned, bricks are your fault, not someone elses Also, the CPU frequencies are now 245xxx (needs to be fixed, keep reading) - 729xxx (careful, some phones can only handle 691xxx). You need an overclock method (setCPU, overclock widget) to change the frequencies to 264xxx - 691xxx.
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Can I use ROM Manager and the recovery from that and install rom from sd card? Thanks for all the help guys.
Yes
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I'll try to do what I suggested at this post -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142591 .
But I need to know where I need to start. (Ok, I know where, but don't know HOW). Here it goes what I think, but I need help.
I have ideas, but don't know how to do all of them. So I need help, I need somebody there can help me. Give me some light. C_C
As I said, I wanna "split" gb kernel + cm9. Simple. But, how?
I need the droid 3 gb kernel, and I need a cm9 rom without the kexec kernel.
OR, (and I would very much appreciate) if some of our brilliant minds could expend just about 30 mins to explain to me how could I do it by myself.
ie:
Where I can extract, get, download the kernel. Or how I remove it from other place;
If the cm9 than i've downloaded came with kexec kernel, and how I remove it;
What I should do when I complete these steps;
*if there is a file (look how i'm losted! I even know if is a file, or a folder, .. buh ): ..).
pls. ):
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I'll try to do what I suggested at this post -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142591 .
But I need to know where I need to start. (Ok, I know where, but don't know HOW). Here it goes what I think, but I need help.
I have ideas, but don't know how to do all of them. So I need help, I need somebody there can help me. Give me some light. C_C
As I said, I wanna "split" gb kernel + cm9. Simple. But, how?
I need the droid 3 gb kernel, and I need a cm9 rom without the kexec kernel.
OR, (and I would very much appreciate) if some of our brilliant minds could expend just about 30 mins to explain to me how could I do it by myself.
ie:
Where I can extract, get, download the kernel. Or how I remove it from other place;
If the cm9 than i've downloaded came with kexec kernel, and how I remove it;
What I should do when I complete these steps;
*if there is a file (look how i'm losted! I even know if is a file, or a folder, .. buh ): ..).
pls. ):
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Im kinda lost at what your trying to do, you dont need a kernel to compile just cm9 really.
but if u want to try booting cm9 without the new kexec kernel3 just delete /system/etc/kexec folder and it will boot into 'stock' gb kexec kernel2 as long as you have safestrap installed
If you need the source for complete stock kernel hashcode has it hosted
https://github.com/Hashcode/solana_kernel
if you need the compiled kexec GB kernel im sure its in safestrap somewhere
You would probly need to make edits to cm9 though to make it work with gb stock kernel, it would be easier to use cm7 probly.
I wonder if Hash's old work on it is around?
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Im kinda lost at what your trying to do, you dont need a kernel to compile just cm9 really.
but if u want to try booting cm9 without the new kexec kernel3 just delete /system/etc/kexec folder and it will boot into 'stock' gb kexec kernel2 as long as you have safestrap installed
If you need the source for complete stock kernel hashcode has it hosted
https://github.com/Hashcode/solana_kernel
if you need the compiled kexec GB kernel im sure its in safestrap somewhere
You would probly need to make edits to cm9 though to make it work with gb stock kernel, it would be easier to use cm7 probly.
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exaplaining, i wanna try to use cm9 without kexec kernel, 'cause still with bugs. i saw this post, and after read it all, i thinked if it's not possible do it again. at this post, was posted a cm9 rom, working fine, without bugs. BECAUSE it wasn't with kexec kernel, but with gb kernel.
but the links is off, and ill try to do it by myself. and looking your simple explanation, i'll try and post results, being good or not. but i still have some questions.
1 - as you said, i need to make what kind of edits?
2 - at cm7, what & how i suppose to act?
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exaplaining, i wanna try to use cm9 without kexec kernel, 'cause still with bugs. i saw this post, and after read it all, i thinked if it's not possible do it again. at this post, was posted a cm9 rom, working fine, without bugs. BECAUSE it wasn't with kexec kernel, but with gb kernel.
but the links is off, and ill try to do it by myself. and looking your simple explanation, i'll try and post results, being good or not. but i still have some questions.
1 - as you said, i need to make what kind of edits?
2 - at cm7, what & how i suppose to act?
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I hate to break it to you, but that cm9 is not fully functional and without bugs. Just off the top of my head I know it has no camcorder, and no HW codecs and while the photo camera works, it's a hack and takes forever to open and can't be used for secondary functions like scanning QR codes. Also I'm pretty sure battery life is ****. And I believe it has the mediaserver battery drain bug, where if you listen to music it will drain your phones in 2-3 hours, tops
And this is just what I can think of, it's been quite some time since I've ran it. If you're determined, I can check to see if I have it kicking around in my Linux files later, but i wouldn't hold your breath.
I don't want to discourage you from trying to learn more about android hacking and dev, but based on your posts I don't think you have the knowledge to fix cm9, I know I don't.
I know it would be great to have a fully functional better than gingerbread rom, but I'm afraid it's GB or beta.
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Cm7 was mostly functional, and I'm pretty sure I have that, but it never worked for the xt860 properly, mobile connection issues. Personally I think it's the libmoto_ril.so, or something in the build.prop, or both. Look into what other moto devices use the same radio as the xt860 and if they have cm7
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Endoroid said:
I don't want to discourage you from trying to learn more about android hacking and dev, but based on your posts I don't think you have the knowledge to fix cm9, I know I don't.
I know it would be great to have a fully functional better than gingerbread rom, but I'm afraid it's GB or beta.
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wait, .. how? lol
i know i can't FIX cm9, wtf, who I am to say something so stupid?
i didn't mean this. sorry if i looks like yes.
based on your posts I don't think you have the knowledge to fix cm9
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i know i don't have it. at ALL my posts, i think i never forgot to say something to confirm it. and like i always says, i know i'm dumb, i ALWAYS assume it, being sayin' it exactly or at other words.
but, it's not to look like something crazy, like somebody who needs atention and bla bla bla. just the true.
and another true is there i wanna try, i wanna learn, i need to try, i need to learn. i think something really nice is about to come.
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here is a cm9 that i'm fairly sure is non kexec
https://www.dropbox.com/s/72jk7id8hnkl9c7/cm9-droid3-20120130-1730.zip
and here is cm7
http://d-h.st/lzD
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here is a cm9 that i'm fairly sure is non kexec
https://www.dropbox.com/s/72jk7id8hnkl9c7/cm9-droid3-20120130-1730.zip
and here is cm7
http://d-h.st/lzD
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Anyone try this?
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i'll try it.
Neither of these will work on an xt860 out of the box. (i mens they will, if you don't want any cellular servicd) I'm only posting Because giovannipaquier has asked for these.
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at cm9, camera doesn't works.
safestrap 3.05 with cm7 just give me black screen. tried with milestone3bootstrap and bricked. ):
unbricked right now.
Endoroid said:
Neither of these will work on an xt860 out of the box. (i mens they will, if you don't want any cellular servicd) I'm only posting Because giovannipaquier has asked for these.
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what you mean is there it works, but i'll not have gsm?
i've got fc's on phone app at startup.
So anyone gonna try it out? To busy at the moment but I'm really curious on if it works and also what version it's on
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So anyone gonna try it out? To busy at the moment but I'm really curious on if it works and also what version it's on
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this is only for people who dont know how to install their own recoveries and stuff
this is of no use to flashers
I'll flash if its a new stable build than the one in the forum.
Oh wow sir thanks so much for the amount of ego you just labeled "flashers" with. Anyone else with actual input?
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Oh wow sir thanks so much for the amount of ego you just labeled "flashers" with. Anyone else with actual input?
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He saying its for people who don't know how to follow directions or are afraid to root because they aren't technically inclined. From what I've seen its a one click noob proof method.
Considering were xda members, we're already familiar with rooting and flashing ROMs, this isn't for us.
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Oh wow sir thanks so much for the amount of ego you just labeled "flashers" with. Anyone else with actual input?
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on that note
run it and mess up your phone please. i dunno what ego has to do with knowing how to flash a rom
typical sensitive user
im out
Watched qbkings video on it earlier and I have to say that cyanogen has really out done themselves. It's looks really clean and easy to use. It's perfect for people new to android modding.
All the new kids on the forums looking to flame. More curious on how CM has been doing getting prepared to release the oppo. Nice to know it works. Btw. Ofc the people here know how to flash. Currently on beanstalk ~~
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Tried It
Just from my experience, it works well! Used it while running Elegancia 20.0 (with S-Off)
I did encounter a bug though. After it sideloads the rom for the first time, you need to manually reboot into recovery for it to install the apps or else you'll be stuck in a animation bootloop.
So what all does it do? I know it unlocks the bootloader for you, but does it install a recovery as well, or just install the ROM and leave it at that?
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So what all does it do? I know it unlocks the bootloader for you, but does it install a recovery as well, or just install the ROM and leave it at that?
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Installs cwm recovery, ROM, and I think gapps
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Kudos the dev team for the installer app
Tried it myself on my HTC device. Works pretty good. But it has its faults as the installer will stump a couple of people not familiar with loading roms, unlocking devices, and recovery menus.
1. You gotta install HTC sync to install the HTC USB drivers. Then un-install the HTC syn software only. I had to debug this process on my end b/c the SYC software would cause a conflict with the Cynanogen installer. And was having issues when putting the device in debug mode > from the developer options.
2. The installer did unlock my phone, asked for token and all.
3. During the rom install, it did reboot the phone and caused me start the whole process over again; this happened about 2 times.
4. It does not install Gapps, you must get them and side load them via the recovery menu.
Other than that it worked like it was supposed to. It flash the follwing:
-CM 10.2-20131101-SNAPSHOT-InstallerBeta3-m7spr
-Android 4.3.1
Alas it did not fix the camera issue that has been plaguing some users ( a blue purple tint when taking pictures). Overrall its a good step in helping "teh noobs" in using custom roms on their smartphones.
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Tried it myself on my HTC device. Works pretty good. But it has its faults as the installer will stump a couple of people not familiar with loading roms, unlocking devices, and recovery menus.
1. You gotta install HTC sync to install the HTC USB drivers. Then un-install the HTC syn software only. I had to debug this process on my end b/c the SYC software would cause a conflict with the Cynanogen installer. And was having issues when putting the device in debug mode > from the developer options.
2. The installer did unlock my phone, asked for token and all.
3. During the rom install, it did reboot the phone and caused me start the whole process over again; this happened about 2 times.
4. It does not install Gapps, you must get them and side load them via the recovery menu.
Other than that it worked like it was supposed to. It flash the follwing:
-CM 10.2-20131101-SNAPSHOT-InstallerBeta3-m7spr
-Android 4.3.1
Alas it did not fix the camera issue that has been plaguing some users ( a blue purple tint when taking pictures). Overrall its a good step in helping "teh noobs" in using custom roms on their smartphones.
flex360 said:
this is only for people who dont know how to install their own recoveries and stuff
this is of no use to flashers
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You know you sound ridiculous, right? I know how and have rooted/flashed so many roms on my Evo that I got kind of burnt out. I was one of the early adopters that had to go through the 45 min, you could very possibly brick your phone, root method. The two reasons I haven't gone through it with the One is I don't have the time, but more importantly, I don't have the patience. This takes away all effort/worry/questions. I was probably going to just let the One be, now I will most likely root in the next few days. Do I necessarily want CM? No. This will make me put it on my phone and try it before I flash something else now though.
That is my thinking as an experienced flasher. "Knowing how" and choosing to do it the inefficient way sounds like you are a hipster or something.
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Installs cwm recovery, ROM, and I think gapps
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So right from a stock phone without root, s-off, unlocked bootloader, etc... It'll unlock, root, and install CWM, and CyanogenMod? Wow... They've really pulled off a miracle.
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That is my thinking as an experienced flasher. "Knowing how" and choosing to do it the inefficient way sounds like you are a hipster or something.
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Lol hipster flashers.
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The thing is, nobody's really wrong here. If you already are familiar with the process of flashing, than this is of little use to you, other than checking it out. If you are new to flashing, this gives you a more safe and simple way to go about it. Whether or not you use or like CM, it is still a great leap forward that a development group is taking it upon themselves to offer solutions to problems that plague any user with a taste for customization. And we are all hipsters here, in the sense that the vast majority of device users have no idea what we do here or how we do it. Even more don't care. I think everybody finds that it is easy to misunderstand or read attitude where there is none actually intended. It happens to me all the time. My penny and a half.
I tried it, unfortuantely, it just rebooted the phone into the bootloader and stops. I'm sure it's because I have twrp installed. I have no idea how to switch from twrp to cyanogen.
EDIT: Okay their wiki is a lot better now, AND the mountpoints are correct! cyanogen recovery worked, flashing last nights 10.2 nightly, wish me luck!
I'm gonna miss my HTC Sense I think :\
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I tried it, unfortuantely, it just rebooted the phone into the bootloader and stops. I'm sure it's because I have twrp installed. I have no idea how to switch from twrp to cyanogen.
EDIT: Okay their wiki is a lot better now, AND the mountpoints are correct! cyanogen recovery worked, flashing last nights 10.2 nightly, wish me luck!
I'm gonna miss my HTC Sense I think :\
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If you like Sense, but want some custom features too, and a really cool UI, try Renovate.....don't normally plug my or anyone else's work in another thread, but I was floored. The first stock-based ROM that dragged me away from Beanstalk...
I tried it. Got the same problem a few people ran into having to reboot manually in the middle of it.
One issue I've run into is I cannot connect to 4g LTE and there's no toggle for it anywhere. Anyone know a fix to this?
flex360 said:
this is only for people who dont know how to install their own recoveries and stuff
this is of no use to flashers
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Now you tell us... it uninstalled twrp and put cwr instead