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[Droid Pro General] mattonbass:
Has anyone with the Sprint XPRT installed the official Sprint OTA GB update that was released this week, and STILL used a non-US GSM overseas successfully? Since the Boost XPRT with GB continuously reboots whenever connecting to a non-US GSM network, I'd be a bit worried to update the Sprint XPRT to the same version and lose the world GSM function... :confused:
[Droid Pro General] mikronex:
I have installed the GB OTA update yesterday. I'm using the GSM network in Serbia (Europe) on the Sprint XPRT. Everything went fine, XPRT works fine, but the only bad thing I noticed is that the USSD commands do not work (credit check...). I'm pleased with the update generally!
[Droid Pro General] bogeyman44:
I wanted to try extracting boost sbf and combine it with sprint update.zip, then flash it with rsdlite or sbf_flash.

I extracted it with android depacker, but I now have to mount cmg files (CG's) in linux and find a way to put correct files then make cmg's with correct checksums and join them back to sbf.

I just currently don't have time to do that.

If somebody wants to experiment, you can try these links:

https://sites.google.com/site/motosbf/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1459470

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=109775

http://motoroladefyall.info/content/cgxxsmg-fájlok-kezelése-változtatása
[Droid Pro General] cutung:
For you : http://www.mediafire.com/?q8j6r5kmncocvqu
[Droid Pro General] AMoosa:
Ok, I'm selling mine if anyone is interested. £60 with free postage to the uk. It's on gingerbread and works perfectly.
[Droid Pro General] BeePlus:
:laugh: The solution:

We take out the sim, boot and switch to Boost Only and turn off phone.

Worked previously put sim (I BeeLine) and switch on the phone.

Boot and the switching phone to Any GSM / UMTS put all jackdaws for Internet and enjoy!

It works on both devaysakh

taken from here h t t p : / / red-forum.com/showpost.php?p=701126&postcount=23

sorry for my english
[Droid Pro General] rongsang:
Doesn't work for me
[Droid Pro General] BeePlus:
A previous work on this sim?

I checked up the work on the sim BeeLine, and the buyer has put the sim Djuice and then began regular reboot. I changed different sim reflash and nothing worked, and now restored 2 XPRT !!!
[Droid Pro General] rongsang:
No sim card ever previously worked. every sim causes reboot.
[Droid Pro General] BeePlus:
including, without sim card and register in CDMA networks

Turn off the phone

Insert SIM and turn (it is loaded into CDMA)

then switch to a GSM network with the Simcoe previously known to work

I thank God all earned.

As an alternative to flash and try to include as I have indicated above (CDMA settings will fly, make a copy!!)
[Droid Pro General] Keph:
2.3.5 root by Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)

Ok, thanks to the great guy (not me), who did us all a huge favor and rooted Gingerbread.

Everyone who was going to pay for root method — feel free to do that.

Paypal:

h t t p ://goo.gl/zBGb0

Download:

h t t p ://vulnfactory.org/public/xprt_root_windows.zip

Instructions:

Ensure you have the appropriate ADB drivers installed from Motorola, download the above zip file, extract the entire contents, connect your device via USB, enable USB debugging mode, and double-click "run.bat" from the extracted archive.

A message from Dan:

I was willing to put this exploit together as a favor, but I came close to refusing, because I think it pushes the wrong message. The Android community needs to stop expecting that the magical hacker fairies will always come along and save the day with an exploit to gain root access. With every root exploit published, there is one fewer vulnerability to find and use for future devices. These vulnerabilities are in limited supply, and at this point it has become fairly difficult to provide root exploits for many devices.

It is by no means a guarantee that someone like me will root your next device for you. If you are interested in rooting/modding/dev'ing, BUY AN UNLOCKED DEVICE. If you continue to buy devices with locked bootloaders and then expect someone else to conveniently drop an exploit in your lap, you're going to be disappointed.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
It won't work with my sprint xprt... Keeps saying permission denied for everything..
[Droid Pro General] nivren:
Thanks for your information. Did you test it? Did anybody test it? Does it work?
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
It didn't work for me. At phase 3 is where it won't create a directory because permission is denied.

Same for phase 4. I'm not sure what's wrong.
[Droid Pro General] Keph:
Yep. Everything works like a charm. Sprint XPRT, 2.2 originally, updated via OTA to 2.3.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Maybe that's the problem. I have the leaked update.

Ugh its just one thing after another.
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
I'm the same. I have leak installed over 2.2 and I couldn't get it to work. Does anyone have a download of the Sprint OTA that we could install over the leak? Maybe that might work?

In any case, I feel like we are almost there. Yesterday I felt like it wasn't going to work period, and now I have hope. Perhaps the original dev might throw us all a bone, but if not, his good work might be the breakthrough that we need. I paid my offered bounty to Dan regardless, and am happy to do more if this all gets worked out.

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Does anyone know if the OTA is saved somewhere on the device that can be taken off of the device and uploaded for all of us to use?
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Yeah I'm hoping someone figures out a way to upload the official OTA update so we can flash it.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
Does anyone know if this works on the Boost version? I plan to try it when I get home.

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Make sure your phone is set for charge only
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
It is/was. I tried everything. Just doesn't seem to work on the leaked update.
[Droid Pro General] djrbliss:
Apparently every device is different, so you'll need to customize the root script a bit. THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO USE THIS EXPLOIT.

1. From a Windows command prompt with ADB in the current directory, type the following command:

adb shell cat /data/system/packages.list

2. In the output of this command, find the line that reads:

com.android.providers.downloads.ui [number] 0 /data/data/com.android.providers.downloads.ui

Note the number at the location of "[number]".

3. Edit the run.bat script and replace all instances of the number "10008" with the new number you just found.

4. If you've already run the root script once, type the following command in the command prompt:

adb shell "> /data/system/packages.list"

5. Re-run the exploit by double-clicking "run.bat".
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
First, thanks to Dan for all of his good work on this. Dan is truly the MAN!

Second, I've done the above and have some add'l comments.

1. The line that you are trying to find (there is a ton of output) is about 15-20 lines down I think.

2. I only found 1 instance of the "10008" that I had to replace (I had 10004)

3. When I did Step 4, I got a response that said that I didn't have permissions. Just an FYI.

4. And yes, it worked for me.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
I keep getting: "adb" is not recognized as an internal or external command

Edit: got it. But I found the line with the number, but instead of saying ".ui" at the end, it says ".drm".
[Droid Pro General] Keph:
You might want to cd into unpacked directory.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Yeah, I figured it out. I changed the number and everything, but its still not working. My number was also 10004.
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
Last three things:

1. Turn off all virus and firewalls.

2. Try a different cable

3. Run as Administrator

That's all that I have for you.
[Droid Pro General] mikronex:
Does not work for me... I have Sprint XPRT, 2.2 originally, updated via OTA to 2.3.5, and still nothing...

h t t p : //i.imgur.com/sscTQ[/url] . png
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Thanks. Tried that too. It just refuses to create the /data/system/packages.list for whatever reason.
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
Moving on

So I got the phone rooted and now I want to create Nandroid and install CWM. Does anyone know if I can install CWM straight from ROM Manager with the 2.3.5 GB Sprint rooted phone or do I need to do the bootstrapper that was the rage when we all had 2.2 on our phones.

Ed
[Droid Pro General] rongsang:
I installed Droid2 bootstrapper. works fine.
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
Installed bootstrapper just fine and it installed CWM 2.5.0.8, Then went to ROM Manager to upgrade the CWM (to version 5 using Droid 2 as version) and now it won't reboot into the new CWM. It hangs on the red Moto logo. I tried rebooting to recovery from Bootstrapper app and ROM Manager and it happens both times. I figured that newer CWM was better for backups, etc. Am I doing something wrong? Does it matter?
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
I have successfully rooted and bootstrapped a Boost Mobile version of this phone on stock 2.3.5 if anyone has questions feel free to ask me.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
Of course all credit goes to Dan. I just made this small fix. Try this if the original does not work for you. Make sure to use attached zip.

1. From a Windows command prompt with ADB in the current directory, type the following command:

adb shell cat /data/system/packages.list

2. In the output of this command, find the line that reads:

com.android.providers.downloads [number] 0 /data/data/com.android.providers.downloads

Note the number at the location of "[number]".

3. Edit the run.bat script and replace all instances of the number "10014" with the new number you just found.

4. If you've already run the root script once, type the following command in the command prompt:

adb shell "> /data/system/packages.list"

5. Re-run the exploit by double-clicking "run.bat"
[Droid Pro General] mikronex:
reply after step 4.: "cannot create /data/system/packages.list: permission denied"

???
[Droid Pro General] maherdz:
I tried to run the update at least 6 times, but it doesn't want to install :/. I'm running a rooted 2.2 Froyo, and I guess I have a Custom Recovery. Is there any way I can get the update installed? :crying:
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
Make sure charge only and you did follow the steps right?
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Now command prompt cant even find the path.. This is so annoying. It was working fine earlier but now it just refuses to work.
[Droid Pro General] nivren:
I tried twice following your steps. But failed again. Same things happened in Phase 3 and 4 -- permission denied.

Anyway, thanks for your work. Hope you can figure out a better instruction.
[Droid Pro General] Sequence2311:
Excuse me but could you please tell me how to do the first step ?

"1. From a Windows command prompt with ADB in the current directory, type the following command:"

I'm sorry, I never used command prompt in my life but I desperately want to root my Boost XPRT, because Motorolas apps simply ruin the experience.

~ Update ~ Nevermind I found the problem. You need to use "cd .." to move up a directory" Keep moving up until you have C: (or whatever your hard drives directory is) Then use cd \Documents and Settings\ (your folder name) \Desktop\xprt_root new then follow step 1.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Ok, so after a google search, I discovered that some of our phones might be mounted as "read only" which is why the rooter isn't able to write the files to the system and we keep getting "permission denied". Anyone know a way around this? I would try to figure it out myself, but this stuff is a little over my head.
[Droid Pro General] Sequence2311:
[Boost Mobile - Motorola Xprt 2.3.5]

Unfortunately, I too, am receiving the "permission denied" message.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
What I originally did was modify what exact phrase of the rooter modifies due to the structure of my phone. Is yours a Boost version?
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
Has anyone tried it on a non-boost phone?
[Droid Pro General] nivren:
No. my GB is OTA updated from Motorola recently.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
This is a Motorola phone. But the firmwares are different depending on the carrier. Are you on sprint?
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
He must be on sprint since he just got the OTA update. I'm also on sprint. That's probably why this exploit isn't working for us.
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
I'm on sprint. I updated using the leaked gb over froyo and I was able to update.
[Droid Pro General] tzuba12:
What? How? It refuses to work for me with the leaked update.

Is there anyway you can upload your rom for us to flash instead of going through all of this?
[Droid Pro General] nivren:
Yes, sprint XPRT.
[Droid Pro General] mikronex:
Yes, charge only, I did follow the steps... (Sprint, OTA updated GB).. but all I get is >permission denied< :crying:

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Ok, so some of us are stuck on step 3 and 4 ("permission denied"). But will the actions performed in step 1 and step 2 affect the operation of the phone, possible future updates or next attempts to root?
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
1. From a Windows command prompt with ADB in the current directory, type the following command:

adb shell cat /data/system/packages.list

2. In the output of this command, find the line that reads:

com.android.providers.downloads [number] 0 /data/data/com.android.providers.downloads

Note the number at the location of "[number]".

Can you guys please list all the results given from adb shell cat /data/system/packages.list for me please. If not that. Please list the com.android.providers.downloads etc etc etc WORD FOR WORD. NUMBER FOR NUMBER. That is very important.

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No. It should not. And quite honestly I don't ever see this phone being updated past GB
[Droid Pro General] mikronex:
from XPRT Sprint, OTA updated GB
[Droid Pro General] esoh:
How can I do this?

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Sorry, last post was in response to tzuba
[Droid Pro General] Sequence2311:
Heres for Boost Mobile running 2.3.5 Stock
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
mikronex. This is for you. Just for you considering that all xprts have a different id. I put together 2 of them in there because your output from the command is different from what I've seen before. Give these both a shot please and let me know how it goes.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
Sequence 2311. This one is for you. It seems pretty similar to mine which also happens to be a Boost stock. Try both in this package. Post any errors or problems. Or success hopefully.
[Droid Pro General] BlackFire27:
"permission denied" is not enough imformation to work on. We need complete command line quotes.
[Droid Pro General] VegasRooted:
Wireless Tethering XPRT

Just a note, I am currently using Barnacle (from the Market) to tether my rooted XPRT, and it works quite well! I used to use Wireless Tether for Root, but it seems touchy at times on the XPRT...not as stable as when I used it on my HTC Evo 4G. Anyways, if you are looking for a stable tethering app, try Barnacle...

Cheers! :)

VegasRooted
[Droid Pro General] kkc0123:
I got a case off of ebay: Motorola Droid Pro Gummy Case Smoke w/Checker Design, for $3.89 that fits and looks great on my XPRT. No modifications needed. Even has a cut-out for the second mic.

(from this seller myworld.ebay.com/wholesalegallery818/?_trksid=p4340.l2559)
[Droid Pro General] miakotamatsue:
Can you verify that these are the correct steps:

1. Use SuperOneClick to root.

2. Install Droid 2 Bootstrapper for recovery.

3. Install ClockWorkMod to create a ROM for the Droid 2 Boostrapper to recover to if I ever need to do a recovery.

That's what I gather from reading all the posts in this thread. Let me know if I'm missing any steps or if my understanding of what the apps above do is wrong. I try Googling them, but it seems they are applicable to other phones and not the XPRT specifically. I am trying to root my XPRT so I can use Barnacle or Wireless Tether to do wireless tethering with my HTC Flyer.

By the way, I came from HTC Touch Pro 2 (Windows Mobile) which I did a lot rooting with. However, Android phones is all new to me.
[Droid Pro General] sweethip:
are there any custom roms out? Just got the phone last night, how is the battery life? Coming from a EVO w\ larger battery!!
[Droid Pro General] VegasRooted:
battery life

Sweethip:

No, there are currently no custom roms out, but if you root and strip out the bloatware (see all previous posts) I think you will be really happy with the phone. Like you, I am also coming from the Evo, and the battery life on the XPRT is ridiculously better that the Evo's was, especially after root! U will not be disappointed! :)

VegasRooted
[Droid Pro General] jred7o7:
Motorola XPRT FASTER 3G WORKAROUND!

So guys just thought this was interesting. I just got the phone about 4 days ago, and I wanted to test the 3g speeds and make sure everything was fine. So when i tested it i got below .50 mbs when i usually get above .7-.8mbs(had an evo before this) so i tried to find a workaround this and wanted to share this with other XPRT owners.

-Go to dialer and type in ##3282#

-Click on MULTIMEDIA

-press the MENU button and enter SPC code(not msl)

**(got the code by telling sprint that i had mms problems and that phone needed to be reprogrammed, they will walk you through the process then give you the code *make sure to write it down!)

-once the code is entered, change:

~HTTP IP Address to 0.0.0.0

~HTTP Port to 0

~RTSP IP Address to 0.0.0.0

~RTSP Port to 0

~Buffer to 20(no matter what number it is make sure its 20, it really makes the difference)

I get about .8-1mb down and .4-.5 up now ever since the change and make sure after you input the info to reboot your phone and if you dont see any instant results give it a good 30 min.

edit: btw tell me your results guys!
[Droid Pro General] MEGABYTEPR:
were can I find a origina sbf file y removed this apps but forgot to back them up...now I need my phone fully stock!! please help
[Droid Pro General] sweethip:
thanks.. will try this out!

Can we make NAND backups, like we did with the EVO? Would like to make a backup of the stock ROM and go back if i ever need too

Regarding installing CW - whats the best way to do this? Do we need to purchase "Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap" from the market after we root? any guides on this part?

Would these steps work?

Root

install CW mod

make full backup of stock ROM

then install titanium backup and start removing the sprint crap
[Droid Pro General] theslug:
Just thought I'd chime in on the subject since I'm getting my XPRT today! I'm going to try the droid NVRAM hack to use the default tethering app (with sprint data settings of course). This is easy to do with RadioComm 11.11.7 (easy to find). Hopefully Moto didn't change the memory location of this data. It's the same across all the droid devices, including the new droid 3 (so I've read). Basically it will set the tethered NAI to be the same as the non-tethered NAI so that the built in hotspot app works, no need to root or pay the extortion fee. Normally you could do with with QPST, but on newer moto devices, the string is built from a region of protected memory each time the phone is booted and if you change it in QPST it just resets.

Directions here for anyone interested (spaces added because I have too few posts to post links!)

http : / / w w w . mydroidworld . c o m /forums/android-hacks/5156-tbh-droid-3g-hotspot-nvram-hack-4.html - scroll to post #50.

Will post results! Obviously, since we don't have verizon, you can't use the premade nvm table posted by cellzealot.
[Droid Pro General] theslug:
NVM hack fail

Well, it didn't work. The addresses in memory are actually still verizon addresses. Clearly sprint's implementation works differently, possibly by reading the login string from a different memory location. I posted a question about it over on mydroidworld, will update later!
[Droid Pro General] VegasRooted:
CWM & Steps to Root

SweetHip:

As far as I know, you must buy and install Droid 2 Bootstrapper in order to install ClockworkMod. (unlike our Evo's, where we could just root and install any recovery that we wanted.)

Here are the steps I followed: **PROPS TO HYDROGEN FOR MOST OF THIS INFO!**

1. Install SuperOneClick on your PC, along with the Motorola USB drivers.

2. Root using SuperOneClick.

3. Buy and install Droid 2 Bootstrapper from the Market.

4. Run Droid 2 Bootstrapper to bootstrap the recovery.

5. Install Rom Manager from the Market.

6. Use Rom Manager to install ClockworkMod recovery, using "Droid 2" as your phone type.

7. Use Droid 2 Bootstrapper to "Reboot Recovery" (Phone will reboot to ClockworkMod recovery)

8. In ClockworkMod recovery, make a backup of your current ROM.

9. **EXTRA INSURANCE** Make a backup copy of your SD card on your PC, so if your SD card gets messed up, you still have a copy of the backup of your original ROM.

10. Install Titanium Backup from the Market and strip out the bloat! (Check page one of this thread for the stuff that I personally stripped out with no resulting issues...)

Have fun! :)

VegasRooted

PS--Once all this is done, there is a way to boot directly into ClockworkMod, but I can't remember off hand...I believe you have to plug in your charger, shut off the phone, then when it displays the green battery charge level symbol, you long-press the power button and it should boot to ClockworkMod. This method would be most useful under catastrophic ROM failure; otherwise you can simply reboot to recovery using Droid 2 Bootstrapper while the phone is "up"...Cheers!

UPDATED: Thanks to TheSlug for posting below that you can actually access ClockworkMod by long-pressing power button while holding "x"...
[Droid Pro General] theslug:
I just longpress power+x and that gets me right to clockwork. Thanks for trying this and posting, btw, I wouldn't have bought the phone if I hadn't known about this in advance.

Also, what were your problems with wireless tether? I've been using it nonstop and it seems to work great! BT Pan even works.

<update> In fact, BT PAN works without root at all. On a completely stock XPRT, you can tether without any 3rd party apps. Pair with a computer, and use the access point. I have tested this with my computer and ipod touch (using itether) on a 100% stock XPRT that had never been rooted.
[Droid Pro General] VegasRooted:
Tether

Slug:

Thanks for the tip on longpress+x to access ClockworkMod, that's cool! I'm going to try out Wireless Tether for Root again, too...

VegasRooted

UPDATED: After trying Wireless Tether again, I realized that although it seems to be slightly faster when speed tested than Barnacle is, I find that Wireless Tether sometimes has intermittent DNS issues when you initially access a new web page...maybe just me, but it seems this way... Anyways, your results may vary, of course! :)

Cheers!
[Droid Pro General] theslug:
Hmm haven't noticed that but I'll keep an eye out. I'm teetering on the verge of returning this thing because of the lack of an SBF file. Not really comfortable I could end up with an unrestorable brick. Yes, I have nandroid backup (thanks again btw), but remember: the bootstrap method of using clockwork is not a real recovery! If logwrapper or hijack in /preinstall and /system get messed up, you're out of luck. No recovery for you.

Any word on an SBF file?

Or even how these get leaked?

Or why in the name of god this wouldn't just be posted on motos website?

OEM ROMs for Windows Mobile phones always used to be. Hell, even the iphone is restorable to stock with no effort.

<update> If I tether with the phone unplugged, and it goes to sleep, wireless tether stops working correctly. DNS lookup gets slow, comes back, weird stuff. Seems the "keep phone awake" option doesn't actually work.