So it has been awhile since I have done any kind of custom romming with android. I have a Droid turbo from Verizon and since it is stuck on Android 6 and we are now at Android 11 I want to know if there are any good custom roms and what is the best way to get this phone rooted and a custom recovery installed. I don't plan to use this phone as a daily driver anymore as I have switched to apple for my devices. What are some good roms and whats a good guild that I can follow to root and rom this device?
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I don't have much experience with custom ROMs, I've tinkered with my Samsung Tab 2, but I still have a few questions.
First of all, I have a stock M7, and as far as I understand HTC won't update this device to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. So I decided when custom 6.0 ROMs get stable enough - I'd like to dive in and try this side of Android I haven't yet experienced. I plan on sticking with my M7 for at least a year or two, as I cannot justify buying a new flagship phone for what I consider to be a slight upgrade, I'm very happy with my M7.
#1 Dumping my current ROM
My M7 still has a 1+ year warranty, and due to the camera purple tint issue, I'd like to have a full backup of my phone (ROM, kernel, baseband etc) if I was forced to go through the warranty process. Is it possible to dump a sort of RUU-type file? The CW field on my phone has the carrier embeded into it, and I cannot find a RUU that exactly matches it, so I'm afraid it could void my warranty if they checked it.
#2 Custom ROM updates
I've found apps in the Play store that claim to provide OTA updates for certain custom ROMs, but I don't understand how this works. Are there no OTA updates for custom ROMs? My Samsung Tab 2 has CM11 installed, and I've never received a notification or anything that an update was ready. I really don't want to keep flashing ROMs and constantly backing up/restoring my data on my phone. The reason I didn't switch to custom ROMs earlier was this issue. I had an iPhone a long time ago, and updating to a new iOS version meant wiping the phone because I always used to jailbreak it because it was locked to a different carrier. That's a pain, and I don't want that. Is this an issue for specific ROMs? Do certain custom ROM developers provide this feature? If there is no "official" OTA support, is there a way to just update and not reflash a new ROM version?
#3 Custom ROM selection
This sort of ties in to my 2nd question. I want to have an almost OEM type experience with updates and so on. As far as I understand, Cyanogenmod would be the way to go, but I didn't really like it on my Samsung Tab 2 - I had battery drain issues, I didn't really like the UI, but I could live with it by using a different launcher, using apps to tweak the UI and so on. But what would be the ROM to use, in order to have an "OEM" experience?
#4 Kernels
I've wanted the double-tap to wake feature on my phone since (if I remember correctly) the M8 launched and had this feature. As far as I understand, I'd need to use a custom kernel in order to have this feature. Does that mean that I have to choose a specific ROM, or can I use any ROM with any kernel? Also ... updates? If I update my ROM - will the kernel be updated, do I have to update the kernel when updating the ROM?
1st the phone is a Verizon lg g2
Android 5.0.2
software version vs98039A
2nd the phone used to be my primary, but I've been using an s3 that was given to me for free.
3rd, I finally decided to root and flash recovery (worked exceptionally well and quick too)
I don't think there's a way to unlock boot loader,but I miss having the ability to have better on it for speed stability and battery life which I've always gotten from aokp rooms, but since my s3 has a locked boot loaded and the g2 does too is it still possible to flash either pacman, paranoid android or an aokp from since I'm on stock lollipop?
I just got my nexus 6 and it came straight from Google (bought off Craigslist). I'm wanting to root it but I don't have a computer. Is there a way to root without a computer? I'm running marshmallow 6.0 build MRA58K. I see there's a lot of development for this phone. Is development going to continue pretty strong since the new nexus 6 came out??
pitbullmommy45245 said:
I just got my nexus 6 and it came straight from Google (bought off Craigslist). I'm wanting to root it but I don't have a computer. Is there a way to root without a computer?
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OK I wasn't sure if there was a one click method
There isn't a one click method for rooting Marshmallow, only for bricking it (temporarily).
Also how do you want to install any custom roms without a computer? At least you need to flash TWRP then you can download roms on your phone, but you need a computer to flash TWRP.
Furthermore, what if the new rom flashed its own recovery then bootloops? With a computer you can re-flash TWRP in a minute and fix this. Without a computer...
I don't want to criticize anybody's hobby, but this can be very expensive...
OK I understand that it was just a question thanks
kings root might work. if it works on marshmallow now. i cant think of any other one click root that might work. but marshmallow requires a custom kernel for root to work, so it might not work at all http://www.kingroot.net/
Hi all, great forum this and well done to all the devs with the work on this app and all the work over the years since XDAS Conception! Ive just rerooted my Motorola Moto G 2014 LTE XT1072 after updating to MM. I tell you it was a long and arduous process!!!???!!! I don't really know why it wasn't happening for me but on about the 7th time of trial and error I managed to get the phone rooted. I think I may have had several problems one of them being basic stupidity Iow trying to flash a custom twrp recovery over a stock ROM. Anyway again I'm not completely sure that was the problem, just taking a wild guess. Anyway it's done. I'm now finally rooted and running MM with the Twrp Thea recovery IMG one of the many, too much choice!!!! Very confusing and testing of one's patience. Anyway what I wanted to ask anyone in the know is if anyone was kind enough to package a stable working kernel, CUSTOM ROM and custom RECOVERY for this excellent little phone. I came across the amazing ElementalX kernel for the NEXUS line of phones and was wondering if there was anything close to it for Motorola phones?!??!!! If so I would be very interested in knowing about it and how I could go about setting up my phone with such a brilliant kernel? Thanks in advance, cheers
hello all!!
i am new to the forums, but i have been looking around for a while to figure out how to root and rom my Amazon Fire 7 (5th generation; KFFOWI). i havent used it in a while and i just loaded it up and now it has an update to Fire OS 5.6.2.0. is there any root for this device? and if so, has anyone found a way to custom recovery the device or unlock the bootloader? if there is no way, i am quite interested in the method used on LG's devices on if that would work to get a custom recovery on here. we all know about how most of LG's devices has a locked bootloader and the only way to get the custom recovery on specific LG devices was with a Bumped version of TWRP. if there is any way to test and work on it for the Fire 5th generation the same way it has been done on an LG G3, it might work out in the long run for this device. yes, root may have to be achieved still. but if someone can work on a ROM dump and try to find a loophole or a backdoor the hard way, we might be able to achieve root. i personally haven't learned android SDK let alone android kitchen, but i have a lot of experience in rooting and romming devices. my device is basically useless to me as i have a macbook and another android mobile device (LG Stylo 4 *still trying to find root for that device as well*), so if anybody tries these methods and can at least bring this device back to speed, we might be able to get more development for this device and probably can get Nougat or even Oreo on this device. you'll never know unless we try to put forth the effort to getting this device resurrected and rid of this FireOS plague!
Thanks!
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