My wife got a S21 ultra, and she was asking how to remove that pink seizure making boot animation. I got my Note20U from Samsung and no boot propaganda.
I have been looking around in the forums but everything is back from 2010.
I know, Samsung has done well limiting the flashy screens, but Tmobile is annoy in the other hand.
Because the device is not mine, and she doesn't want to root, the only way would be ADB.
Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
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I've been stuck in the limbo that is WM for what feels like way too long. I was comfortable with it; I knew it. But recently I started a love affair with Android on my TP2 thanks to HaRET and my unending curiosity. So I put an listing up on craigslist asking if anyone had an Android device they wanted to sell at a reasonable price. Within minutes, I had an e-mail from someone almost a hundred miles away saying he had a Droid he would sell for $200.. Seems like a good deal as most of the Droids on e-bay are still >$300. Unfortunately, he wants to do this deal the day after tomorrow, and has committed to driving most of the way to my city to do it.
So I come to this wonderful community that I have lurked in for quite a while in the hopes that you can give me the heads up. What do I need to know, and what do I need to look for?
Naturally, the first thing I am going to do is call the big V and confirm that the ESN is clean. But what about the phone itself? Is there anything I need to look out for? Any known issues? I read something about the back of the screen getting scratched from the sliding mechanism in another thread. Is that just the plastic that gets scratched up, or can the LCD itself get damaged?
I have also read a lot about this "locked bootloader." I think I understand this as not being able to install custom roms, but still allowing you to root. I was under the impression that rooting your device basically took care of that, so now I understand that I was wrong, and will further research what rooting is on my own. But I also see that some people have custom roms available here on XDA and that others are running Froyo on their Droids. Its all very confusing, and under normal circumstances, I would take a few days to read, research, and teach myself. But at the moment, I feel a little under the gun, as this deal won't last forever.
Anything you guys or gals can tell me would probably be more helpful than you think. I feel like I'm trying to make the switch from XP to Ubuntu.. (heh) Any and all posts will be read. Thanks.
The Droid doesn't have a locked bootloader and can be rooted easily. I bought one just like you're thinking of, I don't even have VZW service.
I put Froyo on it and I like it even though I haven't rooted yet.
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I've been stuck in the limbo that is WM for what feels like way too long. I was comfortable with it; I knew it. But recently I started a love affair with Android on my TP2 thanks to HaRET and my unending curiosity. So I put an listing up on craigslist asking if anyone had an Android device they wanted to sell at a reasonable price. Within minutes, I had an e-mail from someone almost a hundred miles away saying he had a Droid he would sell for $200.. Seems like a good deal as most of the Droids on e-bay are still >$300. Unfortunately, he wants to do this deal the day after tomorrow, and has committed to driving most of the way to my city to do it.
So I come to this wonderful community that I have lurked in for quite a while in the hopes that you can give me the heads up. What do I need to know, and what do I need to look for?
Naturally, the first thing I am going to do is call the big V and confirm that the ESN is clean. But what about the phone itself? Is there anything I need to look out for? Any known issues? I read something about the back of the screen getting scratched from the sliding mechanism in another thread. Is that just the plastic that gets scratched up, or can the LCD itself get damaged?
I have also read a lot about this "locked bootloader." I think I understand this as not being able to install custom roms, but still allowing you to root. I was under the impression that rooting your device basically took care of that, so now I understand that I was wrong, and will further research what rooting is on my own. But I also see that some people have custom roms available here on XDA and that others are running Froyo on their Droids. Its all very confusing, and under normal circumstances, I would take a few days to read, research, and teach myself. But at the moment, I feel a little under the gun, as this deal won't last forever.
Anything you guys or gals can tell me would probably be more helpful than you think. I feel like I'm trying to make the switch from XP to Ubuntu.. (heh) Any and all posts will be read. Thanks.
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The back of the screen has a little layer of plastic to keep from scratching some of the plastic. It tears pretty easily, but it doesnt matter as it will not actually damage the LCDs/LEDs, just scratch the plastic back up a little bit.
The Droid does not have a Locked BootLoader, only the Milestone does. Some people do know how to get around this though.
Rooting a Droid is actually quite simple. All you need (if you are a n00b, like me and you) is to download the DroidRootKit from the web which does the most complicated work for you, while allowing you to do some of the simpler stuff.
When you Root, you are brought back to Android 2.0.1 and you cannot download apps, so you might want to download ROM Manager (Premium or Regular) and back it up for downloading Eclair and Froyo ROMs later.
If you do not want to do that, then you should download a ROM (ie, UltimateDroid) place it on your SD card after Rooting, and install that through SPRecovery or ClockWorkMod Recovery.
People who are running Froyo are either rooted and downloaded a custom ROM, or forced the update through the download at the Verizon site.
The first thing you do when you meet that guy is ask if it is Rooted or ever has been.
Then you ask him if it has ever had water damage or any problems with the LCD screen.
If he says yes to the first question, good.
If he says yes to the second or third question (water damages and/or LCD problems) then DO NOT BUY IT.
(results may vary)
I bought a S2 recently from ebay and it turns out it has a burn in, or what it appears to be, on it. Even the seller apparently didn't know about it, but I got a partial refund so its OK. Now, my question is, how can I get rid of it, if that's possible? I tried screen burn in tool for quite a long time now (5 hours) and I think it did... something. Or maybe be only answer it to replace the screen or something? The burn in isn't such a big problem and I can live with it, but it would be nice if I would be able to get rid of it. Any help is appreciated.
PS. By accident I wrote in the Galaxy S forum not S2... Meh, the problem still applies so I will just leave it here. If a mod wants, please delete it from here. I wrote in the S2 one as well.
Hey Guys,
I'm running my kid's stock Samsung s5 (ATT) as it upgrades (just released today) to Marshmallow 6.0.1, but it's hanging on a white screen with the ATT (blue globe) logo for a couple of hours now.
I know you folks here are hard-core, so I thought perhaps you could suggest a path forward for us from this point. She really doesn't want to have to go Factory reset on this, but I'm teaching her to ask the pros before you just start yanking batteries, etc.
TIA,
Erilyx
I'm not expert but i know more than the average person but when it's stuck like that I usually just pull battery lol
SOLVED! Pulling the battery worked and got her back to pre-update. I don't know that it ever actually entered into the update portion (which was what was freaking me out). So we'll back everything up and try again. Thanks for the help, and sorry for any drama.
Anytime we're all glad to help here.
Went down to AT&T and I bought a new Samsung iPhone, I already got it rooted, anyone mind helping me in messing around with my new iPhone thats from Samsung? Please note it's kind of old because the Samsung logo seems to have a little glue on it, as if paper. Worth it. Also I never knew that Android released a OS called "iOS"
There's a dedicated post a joke thread here, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=384841
So I'll close this one. :good:
On my galaxy s5, I had an unlocked padlock with the word custom under it, on the main device splash screen at first boot, and I just achieved the same for the s7 I'm working on. I just got my note 4 sm-910T3, after waiting forever to get the money to do so, and I just wanted to have it crazy modded.
I loved my trashy s5, and am having tons of fun with the s7, and my note, and I really wanted to have that "unlocked" custom thing back on my phone.
All of the google searches about it, are people whining about it, and how it's totally stock, and want to get rid of it, but i'm literally the opposite, f**k that thing up, I want to know it's mine at a glance. Does anyone have an inking on what I can do in order to get that one more dumb mod back in my life?
Please and thank you for your time guys.:good: