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First of all I'd like to apologize because I'm sure this has been covered already but I just feel more comfortable asking myself.
I have had my g1 for a couple of months now and I'm starting to get all itchy for root for all the obvious reasons. I hoping someone can answer some questions or point me in the right direction.
I have ota CRB43 build on my phone. I see LOTS of different instructions for rooting.. I'm wondering what one I should go by. I also notice some people say to take out the SD card instead of mounting to prevent possibly bricking your phone... should I do that or is it better to mount with the usb? And after following whatever instructions is there anything else necessary to do?
I was also interested in what themes people are using. Can I jump right into that after rooting or is there something else I will need to do. Any links for themes you are using would be great also.
Thanks so much… I really appreciate it.. Thought I had more questions.. If I remember anything else I’ll update.
I used Gizmodo's guide - very simple and clear.
http://gizmodo.com/5146797/how-to-hack-android-for-multitouch-web-browsing-on-the-t+mobile-g1
If you follow it step-by-step you'll wind up with an old build, but you'll have root and be ready to step up to any new build. New builds are easy once you've rooted - rename to update.zip and flash using recovery (explained in the guide above).
You'll also want to get the newest radio (after rooting per directions above) - Download the ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip file from http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3 -- Rename to update.zip and flash as usual.
And I had absolutely no problems mounting the SD Card via the phone itself. Just make sure you cleanly eject the card from your PC every time, to avoid corruption.
And let me suggest CyanogenMod for your build.. Simply the fastest and most stable Android build out there - "official" firmware included.
Thanks a lot for your response! It was helpful and I checked out your link.. I was looking at -
http://androidsocialmedia.com/root-access/android-g1-root-access-why-how
originally, but I think they look similar. Thanks for the radio info as well.. anything else besides that I'll need to update?
let me ask one more thing- what's the difference between CyanogenMod and the others available?
thanks again for your help!
sole3s said:
Thanks for the radio info as well.. anything else besides that I'll need to update?
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Well, I did skip the SPL - Some ROMS require a different SPL (Secondary Program Loader/Launcher, I think..) to free up additional space on the device. Mostly the Hero based ROMs. I haven't touched any of those, need someone else to help there.
sole3s said:
let me ask one more thing- what's the difference between CyanogenMod and the others available?
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Cyanogen is tweaking the heck out of Android - endlessly enhancing it for performance and stability. Cyanogen has a few visual tweaks but mostly it looks like stock Android with all the improvements under the hood.
The other builds.. Mostly visual, in my opinion. They all have fans though, check out the threads under Development for more details. Also, the Android ROM Database - http://www.simonwalkerphotos.com/android/android_build_information.asp
Dude, thanks so much for all this info.. http://www.simonwalkerphotos.com/and...nformation.asp was really helpful.
last question I'm gonna ask.. if i hard reset do is it going to unroot my phone?
Again.. you were really helpful! I appreciate it so much!
Nope it will not unroot you're phone
No, you'll just go back to a fresh version of whatever ROM you have installed. However, some ROMs (Like Cyanogen) put some apps in the /data folder, so a wipe could break the ROM. Typically it is better to flash after a wipe. But you won't loose root either way.
Only way I know how to loose root is to flash a none rooted ROM.
The only thing I would do is avoid the DangerSPL until you either need it or know what you are doing. Otherwise its pretty much hard to brick your phone unless your trying to with a low battery.
I'd just like to take a second to thank everyone for their help, especially Saiboogu. Like I said in the first post, I'm sure this stuff was covered somewhere but this really made me feel a bit more confident. Thanks for not flaming me... I'm actually a bit surprised at the friendly responses... again thanks everyone.
Most likely I'll be able to get around to rooting on monday or tuesday.. I'll post updates just for the fun of it.
Take it easy guys
Lol well you posted it in the right section. Of course you are going to get help
What alritewhadeva said .. You ask in the right place, we'll help. You're off to a good start.
Hi,
I need a guide on how to do this, I know there are a lot of threads on this, but none of them actually tell you how to do it.
I need a full guide that tells you how to do it, or someone with the precustomised files.
For a 2.3.3 rom, but it should be the same files as 2.3.2, and i know its been done, so if someone can help, I will be very appreciated.
For 2.3.3 I do not know, but for 2.2 successfully done on the instructions with some corrections.
It would be super if someone else has written instructions on how to add a several lock screens (particularly rotary)... I could not understand, no matter how hard they tried.
This is becoming a beginners guide for people like me...
Hello all and thanks in advance for any help you guys can lend me.
So what i have is an hp touchpad 16GB. it has ICS on it with dual boot webos
I want to put CM10 Schizoid tenderloin on it. (i have the files downloaded.)
Currently it doesn't have Clockwork recovery it has Teamwin recovery (TWRP)
I would prefer if it had clockwork, as i have not seen anything about TWRP on here.
So i would assume the best thing to do is factory wipe it back to just WEBOS but i have no idea how.
and then i could follow a tutorial from there (starting from scratch)
If there is an easier way that's good too, i would like to switch to Clockwork though... (unless you all insist it doesn't matter)
Please help me, this is a very different world than i am used to.
my experience with this type of stuff: I have rooted and flashed roms to my galaxy s3. I also have done plenty of apple jailbreaks too but that's super easy stuff compared to this.
all help is greatly appreciated!
UPDATE:
Well after tons of reading i found a couple ways to do this.
1. Follow this thread: THREAD LINK and get it 100% back to original even if having serious problems. (took me about 20 pages to realize this was too extensive for my needs)
2. Run the ACMEuninstaller, (i couldn't find a detailed thread on this but found a revkyle vid for it.) Get webos doctor 3.0 and open the Jar file (a java executable, install java if you don't already have, I didn't) add the acmeuninstaller file to the palm, inc folder. follow revkyles intructions in the video (link will go here, no time)
I read somewhere to run cyboot to get rid of moboot and something about preware... didn't have to do all that, uninstaller got it all off. (i think, correct me if i am wrong)
After you are all done wiping android off the HPTP, you can start from scratch.
I watched revkyle's idiots guide 2.0 video and it was pretty good. followed it exactly but sure enough encountered problems.
i am now running shizoid [ROM] [CM10] SCHIZOID all-in-one (CM10+AOKP M1+PA 2.55)[06MAR13 v1.20]
I'll update later. I don't really need anyone's help now, thanks anyways...
First off, let me apologize for posting what has been semi-answered in several other threads. Im a lifer when it comes to android but still a noob at rooting and custom roms. I've been rooting for about 4 to 6months. mostly basic beginner stuff. this was my first attempt at flashing a custom rom, and well, the fact that I'm here lets you know how that went for me. So I've read 30 or more threads between this site and some others and tried a handful of methods to fix but i lack the knowledge or lingo to properly understand some of the things that I've read. So anyone kind enough to break things down barney style like a bootloop for dummies for me id be forever in your debt. Here is my issue...
Once i found out that the note 3 n900a of mine is not compatible with clockwork mod or team win recovery i found and downloaded the SafeStrap recovery and flashed the biggins custom rom and even tho i tried going by the guide i read i must have went wrong somewhere and got myself stuck in boot loop or soft brick.
I've tried downloading a stock firmware for the note 3 and reflashing with heimdall. i thought it was going to work since everything went according to the guide i read 100% but it still failed.
from reading other forums I have also downloaded these programs:
1. android studio sdk
2. Java and latest JDK 7
3. zip devil
4. heimdall suite - heimdall frontend
maybe more I've forgot.
Could anyone please help explain to me the easiest method for a beginner to recover from boot loop? I can't even get my phone to boot back into safestrap recovery. only screens i can access is stock recovery mode...adb factory reset cear cache external sd etc. and Odin download mode. When i tried using the safestrap recovery i saved to my ext sd card saved as twrp file that the program mirrors, I'm not sure if I'm loading the wrong files within this folder or perhaps the wrong order or if this recovery won't even work for me at all.
I've downloaded all of the above mentioned programs but I'm not at all familiar with properly using them to do what i need with them. Please, anyone, explain this in english to someone who isn't skilled or long term rooter. if you need any more info on my issue please contact me any way you can or ask for a way to contact me externally and ill provide that as well.
Is "Copy partitions zip" still needed when prepping for roms with official firmware?
In the following threads and others, I'm seeing the first step listed as crucial, and involving flashing this small zip file in order to populate the B slots of the phone:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x4/how-to/guide-install-android-9-0-pie-gsi-moto-t3833860
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x4/development/rom-lineage-os-15-1-t3802265
However, in more recent tutorials as well as the (awesome) videos I've seem floating around from munchy, this step is not shown. In fact, the act of "populating the B slots" now seems tied to flashing a copy of the official firmware in order to prep for custom roms.
I'm a little bit confused about wether the official firmware is now a replacement for this original "copy-partitions-payton.zip" file. Aside from a couple of OP's, I don't see anybody mentioning this file anymore. Also, when instructions are given on "populating the B slots" it seems to now refer to the official firmware flashing process.
Am I getting all of this correct? Is flashing the official firmware a replacement for the step of flashing the copy-partitions-payton.zip file?
I've already unlocked my bootloader.
I really apologize if I'm asking obvious questions, but this is my first android phone in 5 years and I really, REALLY don't want to screw this up. I've had a lot of catching up to do and have been doing a ****-ton of reading in this forum. I think I have the rest of the flashing process figured out... I just want to do the first step right. Thank you so much XDA for being the resource for people like me!!
we still need it. which video doesn't have this step? pretty sure i did mention it in all the videos. if i did not , then my bad.
Hey man thanks so much for replying! I haven't actually seen it in any of the videos - unless I'm missing something incredibly obvious.
(for context - my ultimate goal is to flash LineageOS 15.1 and get root passing SafetyNet to the point where GPay works)
I started here to get the basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmczD9tvEQ
This video starts right with flashing the stock firmware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Kcwjyk_Ls
This video I didn't understand at first, but eventually got that you're just explaining A/B slots, not necessarily giving a tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwYxp30dps&t=119s
None of these have that specific zip being flashed.
So if I understand correctly the correct process after buying the phone would be...
1) Unlock bootloader
2) push needed zips to phone storage
3) fastboot into TWRP
4) flash copy-partitions-payton.zip
5) reboot into recovery
6) flash stock firmware (I'll be using PAYTON_FI_8.1.0_OPWS28.46-21-8_subsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC)
6) ...and basically follow the rest of your video to a T from there.
Hey I was wrong sorry - it's totally in the Android P video. So that was super helpful... and I just finished flashing everything successfully! I did not seem to have to flash the stock firmware at all - I simply flashed copy-partitions-payton.zip, did a factory reset, and moved right on to flashing LineageOS.
So does this mean that copy-partitions-payton.zip and flashing a copy of stock firmware accomplishes the same thing?
This is also missing from the official Lineage documentation, fyi:
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/payton/install
Thanks for your videos, they've been super helpful and so far no problems with my flash.
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So does this mean that copy-partitions-payton.zip and flashing a copy of stock firmware accomplishes the same thing?
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What do you mean by flashing a copy of stock firmware? Where is it asking you to flash stock firmware, the guide assumes you are on stock firmware. Also, if you have LOS already running dont bother about it too much. The original instructions explaining all this were in the LOS thread I created, which was transferred to Erfan once LOS was official. Now, the original instructions are no longer there. So, just forget about them and enjoy your custom rom :highfive:
I surely am Everything is running perfectly, except for a couple of minor crashes of the settings app. No biggie. Thanks again for the reply, I'm sure I'm mis-reading a few things pretty badly, but this is helping.
When you use the flash_all.sh script in your videos (at 4:45 in the 2nd video), is that not flashing the stock firmware? Isn't that zip directly from Motorola and flash_all.sh flashes the entire phone back to stock?
I assumed that flashing the stock firmware was a way of putting the phone in a known-good state before continuing with you guide. But then you talk about how Motorola didn't populate the B slots. So I'm just not exactly clear on what the copy-partitions-payton.zip does. I did flash that, but I didn't have to use flash_all.sh at all.
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I surely am Everything is running perfectly, except for a couple of minor crashes of the settings app. No biggie. Thanks again for the reply, I'm sure I'm mis-reading a few things pretty badly, but this is helping.
When you use the flash_all.sh script in your videos (at 4:45 in the 2nd video), is that not flashing the stock firmware? Isn't that zip directly from Motorola and flash_all.sh flashes the entire phone back to stock?
I assumed that flashing the stock firmware was a way of putting the phone in a known-good state before continuing with you guide. But then you talk about how Motorola didn't populate the B slots. So I'm just not exactly clear on what the copy-partitions-payton.zip does. I did flash that, but I didn't have to use flash_all.sh at all.
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What I understand is that Moto does not flash both slots by default, but flashing the flash-all does both slots with the stock firmware. If you are on the default stock setup, copy-partions will just copy your the Moto default to the other slot.
Got it. So basically the main goal with that first step is simply to populate the B slot which can be achieved by either method. Thanks guys, I just wanted to make sure I understood the full scope of what had to be done. Always an adventure catching up to the many months of hard work y'all do to get us here. Much appreciated and I'm enjoying my new setup a bunch!
amirite said:
In the following threads and others, I'm seeing the first step listed as crucial, and involving flashing this small zip file in order to populate the B slots of the phone:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x4/how-to/guide-install-android-9-0-pie-gsi-moto-t3833860
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x4/development/rom-lineage-os-15-1-t3802265
However, in more recent tutorials as well as the (awesome) videos I've seem floating around from munchy, this step is not shown. In fact, the act of "populating the B slots" now seems tied to flashing a copy of the official firmware in order to prep for custom roms.
I'm a little bit confused about wether the official firmware is now a replacement for this original "copy-partitions-payton.zip" file. Aside from a couple of OP's, I don't see anybody mentioning this file anymore. Also, when instructions are given on "populating the B slots" it seems to now refer to the official firmware flashing process.
Am I getting all of this correct? Is flashing the official firmware a replacement for the step of flashing the copy-partitions-payton.zip file?
I've already unlocked my bootloader.
I really apologize if I'm asking obvious questions, but this is my first android phone in 5 years and I really, REALLY don't want to screw this up. I've had a lot of catching up to do and have been doing a ****-ton of reading in this forum. I think I have the rest of the flashing process figured out... I just want to do the first step right. Thank you so much XDA for being the resource for people like me!!
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Well, I did not need it. I just went from stock android 9 to LineageOS 16.