yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] vinuneuro:
The only reason Sprint has been able to offer truely unlimited plans is because the speeds were just too slow to generate any meaningful volume. With LTE now, they will be in the same position (likely worse equipped) once volume increases across the network. Enjoy it while it lasts. I certainly wouldn't be jumping ship having unlimited (5g) with ATT in hand to have fully unlimited data for a year or so.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Ascertion:
Sprint doesn't cut you off or anything when it comes to data usage (unless you're roaming.) Go to 500 gb a month if you'd like.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Acapella75:
Those throttled speeds are faster than most peoples Sprint 3G speeds
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] itzike:
as it should be... its 4g
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Speedin07si:
Keyword is most.

Now this is with my Samsung Epic (sg1)

Sent from My Epic Ice Cream Sandwich With Sprinkles!!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stupidchicken03:
Google Music/Pandora a few hours a day

Watch a movie a day on Netflix

Download tons of torrents

On LTE on my speed test I average 30-40 Mbps

While torrenting ive hit 2.1 MBps :eek:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] s1mpd1ddy:
The torrents will def do that
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stupidchicken03:
Yup :)

When im at work and getting download speeds like that, the battery is draining faster than the PC USB can charge haha
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cell128:
I suggest if you want verizon untrhrottled unlimited LTE you look on craigslist or that phone swappa site I believe and take over someone's plan with unlimited data
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] erichj:
That seems pretty risky.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] a454nova:
If your in a Market where Sprint is launching LTE this year.... That is the Best option right now.

S4GRU.com, will fill you in on the Build out for Sprint. Also, right from the CEOs (Dan Hesse) mouth. Sprint will continue to be truly unlimited for years to come. Well after the Network Vision build out. Not that it couldn't change... but its gotta hold some value as a customer.

I'm in DFW...

3G always in the 2mbps area

4G LTE is in the 18mbps area

No throttling, No limits, unless your torrenting while roaming like some of the "Sprint cut me, oh why???" idiots. I've gone 26GB (Don't Ask) and Sprint Laughed at me and said "Your good!".

I attached some speed tests... The 3G is at SH114 and SH170, on Friday Rush hour... :D
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Igotsanevo4g:
This.

Only a week until my sprint contract is up and I can get a att gs3, and be done with less than dial up speed 3G and non existent 4g.

Btw how does San Diego, a huge god damn city, not get wimax or lte yet sprint? Yet random towns in ohio do? Fu

Moral of story is stay the hell away from sprint.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] RampageRR:
That is a serious amount of pr0n. :D Congrats, sir.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] los0325:
I would say just be careful with sprint I'm also from the 210 my buddy and we where at work @ chase and he got a text message from sprint about data then a week later he got a letter saying he needs to stop using data like the way he was or his account will be terminated we went through bill to bill for a year he used the min 10g and most 36. stand by I'm having him text me the letter to post it here

I'm on att unlimited and never been throttled
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] a454nova:
That's a little much.... The new ISP law allows them to kick your butt off for torrenting the "bad" stuff. Lol. Hope your not using public trackers. You'll be finding youth in a new carrier soon. :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] a454nova:
That's for sure... It don't matter who your on... Keep your usage high enough to long and your out. That's been the trick to break contract with no fees. Your lucky on the throttling, that's a proven fact they do throttle.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stupidchicken03:
haha naw

Yup im clean, and safe on trackers ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Terrold:
So at att I upgraded to 5 gig plan and heard about throttling after like 3 gigs. The rep told me only unlimited users are throttled and that I will get full speeds for all 5 gigs. He didnt mention when unlim users would be throttled though.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cell128:
Its safe actually. I did it myself. I left att because of that throttling crap and took over a verizon account with 2 unlimited data lines and now I never been happier with the coverage and unthrottled lte with my galaxy s3. One week I'm at 11gb's. The account transfers are done by verizon themselves. The way it works is the account owner calls and says to have someone else resume the account just gives they're name. Then the new owner calls and says they're taking over and the account is notated so they just walk you through it. It takes about 10 minutes. The one I got I took it from some dude that had moved to London or something and he left his account suspended and left a post on craigslist for whoever wanted it. We just communicated through email about the details. Never been happier :)
[Droid 2 General] phifc:
I have a method for rooting stock 2.3.4 on Droid 2/R2D2, but I can't post howto/links because my account is new. There's now a bootable EzSBF image that will update your phone to stock 621 and give you the option of rooting it, courtesy of beh (bhigham)

The thread is here:

rootzwiki.com/topic/29930-new-root-method-for-stock-234-621622-found-droid2-r2d2/
[Droid 2 General] Albinoman:
Not to be rude but....I have to call BS.
[Droid 2 General] phifc:
months formaj

Understandable since I appeared out of nowhere.

Well, I posted it on rootzwiki. It's an exploit in loadpreinstall.sh. You can make a symlink in /data/preinstall_md5/ to /data/local.prop, create a dummy file in the preinstall /app dir and instead of a md5sum, put a copy of local.prop that contains ro.sys.atvc_allow_all_adb=1. When the system thinks it's copying an md5 sum to your preinstall md5 cache, it hits the symlink and overwrites the local.prop, giving adb root access on next reboot. It seems you can put whatever you want in CG66 and the phone boots just fine. This probably works on quite a few motorola devices ;)
[Droid 2 General] Albinoman:
Well it looks like I have to retract my previous statement. Great job!
[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
D2 "ezSBF" 2.3.4/4.5.621 with magic md5 root option

updated many times see change log

root created by phifc modified by bhigham

3 options

mirror links posted Magic MD5 Root 2.3.4 for D2, R2D2, D2G, DX and 2.3.5 for DX2 - Google Docs

Multi-Device Root (54mb)

Droid2_621_SBF-and-RootCD.iso (213mb)

Droid2_R2D2_A957_2.3.4_SBF_and-or_RootCD.iso (250mb

How this works

what is ezSBF?

original [TOOL] ezSBF (not for 2.3.4)

select D2 for multi device root cd or /select root for the Droid2_621_SBF-and-Root CD

don't use numbers on right side of you keyboard, just use the ones above qwerty

turn phone on, connect to pc with usb cable

on phone check

usb debugging

(settings/apps/development)

on phone select

charge only

usb mode

on pc press continue

program will use adb to push

data/local.prop /data/preinstall_md5/magic.md5

program will prompt you to

manually reboot phone to bootloader, To put your D2G(/D2) in bootloader mode, power down and power on while either holding both volume buttons, or the up arrow on the keyboard.

program will flash repacked sbf (less than 50mb)

program will reboot twice, very important (reboot just replaces the local.prop, but the old local.prop is still in memory, till second reboot)

adb pushes su,superuser, and busybox

program will reboot to recovery,

manually press both volume buttons when you see

!, triangle, & android andy

manually select wipe cache

manually select reboot

rooted

error info

when running program you may see these errors

rm failed for /data/preinstall_md5/magic.md5 no such file or directory

no root.img.gz no such file or directory

rm failed for /data/preinstall_md5/magic.md5 read only file system

that is fine, it will still work

if you plan on creating nandroid backups or flashing roms read

[HOW TO] Install/Use Droid 2 Bootstrap

Using Oracle VM VirtualBox, and Magic MD5 root iso

Older Methods

see instruction by phifc below

windows Batch file (uses rsd lite)

Linux batch file (adb and sbf_flash)

Linux manual (adb and sbf_flash)

original thread New root method for stock 2.3.4 (621/622) found (Droid2, R2D2) - Droid 2 / R2D2 / Milestone 2 / Droid 2 Global - RootzWiki

for basic SBF and RSD lite info read The DROID Wiki

use pc, links are baked into text just click on name of file

moto drivers USB and PC Charging Drivers - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA

abd in command prompt start/search cmd.exe

same version, rooting alone doesn't change that, rooting just gives you access to change system files/settings

My Links

Magic MD5 Root 2.3.4 for D2, R2D2, D2G, DX and 2.3.5 for DX2 - Google Docs

sd_shadow's [Collection] of Links: FAQs, Guides, Rooting, SBFs, ROMs... - Google Docs

edited:

02 Oct 2012 added mac info

10 Oct 2012 added error info

19 Oct 2012 total reorganized post

26 Oct 2012 added mirror

05 Nov 2012 added 622 sbf

09 Dec 2012 major rewrite of instructions
[Droid 2 General] Albinoman:
It should....I've looked it over.
[Droid 2 General] supergear:
works!!!

Thanks for the root

Sent from my newly rooted droid 2
[Droid 2 General] xIronCrossx:
I can confirm it works, I just registered to let you guys know :)

I have been lurking here for like 3-4 months looking for a root method, and this morning I checked rootzwiki and saw this. So glad! Thanks OP!

I am currently not at home(vacation in Germany) so I can't take a picture of root checker, but it works, very easy as well.
[Droid 2 General] circa881:
I can confirm that this works also except I still can't install CM7 because apparently I'm not on the OTA kernel and I'm on a leaked GB one.

Sent from my Senseless Rezound
[Droid 2 General] xIronCrossx:
Give LiquidICS a try, I really like it so far. Or CM9, I think LiquidICS is based on that though with some improvements.

I can't post links yet, but check droidforums. net for that
[Droid 2 General] circa881:
I will, thanks.
[Droid 2 General] pjamv5:
Big thanks for this! No issues rooting, and got CM9 up and running on the D2.
[Droid 2 General] jwagman1:
big thanks for this.

finally can swap over to cricket
[Droid 2 General] steveninspokane:
You my friend, don't just deserve a nice cold root beer, you deserve stock in A&W.

Thank you so much, can't wait till I get home from vacation to try it. :)
[Droid 2 General] jwagman1:
hey guys im having an issue.

i have a droid 2 with .621

I ran the .bat, rebooted, and attempt the sbf. it goes all the way through verifying the checksums then i get this error:

"Failed flashing process. Interface BP: Checksum error in the RAM Downloader for Flash Bootloader. File: 0x13AD (0x702C)"

The phone says SW Update In progress..

so i pulled the battery and put back in and now it goes to the bootloader and says corrupt code

I tried the sbf 3 times and redownloaded all the files 3 times.

I dont know what to do........

EDIT: i was able to sbf back to the unrooted .621. then i tried the root process again but still got the error. should i do a full factory reset then try??

EDIT: I tried flashing the root sbf one more time, and this time i still got the error, but the phone rebooted and booted up ok. i installed voodoo rootkeeper and protected root :]
[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
yes you will get rsd lite errors, it's a repacked sbf

just ignore the errrors

if you bootloop, go to to recovery and wipe cache or data

if you can't get to recovery, reflash sbf
[Droid 2 General] supergear:
You will get that error you have to wait for device to say it is finished which takes maybe 5 mins or so after you get the error
[Droid 2 General] scubamike:
I got the "Failed flashing process. Interface BP: Checksum error in the RAM Downloader for Flash Bootloader. File: 0x13AD (0x702C)" message as well. I waited for the phone to reboot, finished the flashing process, got errors from the .bat file saying to send the info.txt file to the OP, and tried installing Titanium Backup regardless. It asked for root permission, which I granted. Then I got a message saying "BusyBox works but the "su" command does not elevate to root." I've tried it twice now with the same RSD Lite error. I'll give it another go after it finishes charging.
[Droid 2 General] AcridGosling:
I don't know if this means anything, but after rooting, I had to reinstall busybox (there's an app in the market) but the newest version didn't work. I had to install 1 version back.

Sent from my rooted DROID 2! Much thanks to phifc from rootzwiki for the 2.3.4 .621 root!
[Droid 2 General] ovelayer:
fixed sbf fails everytime and I've waited 10this to 15you min after each fail msg in rsdlite..phone never reboots and when I pull the battery and reboot the phone it gos straight into bootloader which says its corrupt..
[Droid 2 General] supergear:
Maybe it's time to upgrade to a new phone :/
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
This sounds like the drivers didn't install properly, so it fails when it tries to install the radio baseband. This happens as the phone needs different drivers for flashing the regular part of the phone than for flashing the radio baseband part of it.

Presuming there isn't another issue, you might want to download the EzSBF CD from the first post on Rootzwiki. There are a few advantages to using it instead of flashing on windows.

1, no drivers need installed

2, it only flashes the parts necessary for root, so it doesn't need to factory reset your phone in most instances. In your case, it might be a bit more complicated, due to already having a failed flash. If that is the case, post back, and I can try to put together an EzSBF CD for the complete SBF of the D2.

You can also read the information on getting the proper drivers installed from the following site

http://droid.koumakan.jp/wiki/SBF

The part you would be interested in would be the error switching phone to Bp passthrough mode. The page is for the Droid 2 Global, but the drivers should be the same. Presuming that your problem is the battery issue, this would allow you to recover your phone, using what you already have on hand.
[Droid 2 General] AndrevRoot:
Problem flashing sbf

Well at this point, if it continues to misfire on boot up, which it may in the future, you are pretty much screwed. If you go over to my Rootzwiki post:

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/31529-recompiled-new-root-method-droid-2-234/

you will find a full root guide, RSD lite and other files.

Don't end RSD prematurely, it will screw up your phone (you just came off lucky this time).

Should anything else go wrong, my root guide may be able to help, if you move around the files, and flash the sbf, then go through root guide, skip flash 2nd time, and get rooted. Only do this if you have to.

Please pass this method on!

AndrevRoot
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
The EzSbf style CD linked in the corresponding thread in Rootzwiki does nothing other than root your phone. It flashes a preinstall that basically contains nothing new other than a few lines of text, and leaves the rest of the phone intact. So you could flash the R2D2 SBF if you wanted, then just that CD to root. I can also easily put together package like I put together for the regular D2 on that thread (page 14 if I recall correctly, that will allow you to flash the R2D2 complete SBF and then root it, but if you are able to flash the unmodified sbf with rsdlite, no real need to.
[Droid 2 General] mrcatpc:
blame it on the batt, man

Agreed! Thanks, AndrevRoot. You also said it much more eloquently than I could. Prematurely ending the program is always a rude (and usually risky) move, but the interface was giving me the silent treatment at the time, halted because of the CG66/etc mismatch errors. RSDLite had ended its flash process and stopped for ~20min & I didn't want to risk low battery brick (been there with a battery bypass USB cable hack once upon a time), so I followed a hint from RootzWiki to click START on the RSDLite window, which gracefully stopped RSDLite (in order to start itself) and signalled to the phone process was completed and OK to restart (on the device screen). RSDLite had finished the entire flash process, though, only reason I thought that hint would even be close to what was needed. Worked for me, especially since RSDLite seems to want a whole/signed SBF and freaks out with this CG66 fix (at least early on when I jumped into the RootzWiki instructions and followed the Windows instructions that required RSDLite).

Thank you, bhigham, for that tip. I thought the EzSBF CD would run the whole 621 SBF flash process again, not just the root. So if you suggest I run the complete stock 622 SBF for A957 R2-D2 and then run the EzSBF CD, that's what I will try next. Definitely will post the results here & share back on DroidForums.net with the community there if it works for those of us who accepted VZW's OTA 622 update and/or have flashed stock 622 SBF. I don't want to make you do more work if the EzSBF CD will adapt root to stock 622 after reflashing. I'm still awaiting feedback to unlock/activate my new registration at RootzWiki (sent a help message to staff@), so I appreciate finding your follow-up here. I'll see if RootzWiki will let me "Like" any posts since I can't directly reply to post #135 on the thread at RootzWiki.

Meanwhile I'm considering design of a wrap for R2-D2 that will transform him into a dark R2-Q5 on the outside.

UPDATE: RapidShare link may be broken, unable to download the ISO at this moment. ):K
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
Ok, the link up on the first page of the post now is a CD that has the options to flash 621, as well as root.

You have the either/both option. However, that CD is over 200 megs. The other CD is under 50, and it only roots.

It is available at mediafire

http://www.mediafire.com/?2rbajac910tgffh

I mentioned to OP that the CD did both was available, and he replaced the link for the rooting CD, and put the link for the root/sbf CD in its place.

Hope this helps.

I checked the rapidshare link as well, and it appears to be working now for me.

---------- Post added at 06:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:51 PM ----------

The CD should root stock 622 fine, so you would be fine using rsdlite to flash stock, then using that to root.

However, if there is a demand for it, it will take hardly any extra time to put an R2D2 SBF and/or root CD together, especially if you are willing to test it (I have no D2, just the D2G)

It wouldn't be available to download till tomorrow, but should only take about 10 minutes to put together if there is a demand for it.

The rooting only CD though would be identical for both D2 and R2D2
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
Ok, I put together a combined root and sbf for the R2D2 I think, but am unable to really test it.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2032122281/Droid2_R2D2_A957_2.3.4_SBF_and-or_RootCD.iso

the md5 is

546aab9e2d63e14bf7ad46c9077141a8

I have no way to test it, so if you want to try it out, let me know.
[Droid 2 General] mrcatpc:
My Hero!

I am still having a block reaching RapidShare, but since the MediaFire link for root_only ISO

worked

for me, booted to that on CD-R after running the stock 622 SBF A957-approved VZW on RSDLite, and the EzSBF boot successfully walked me through the root. It's a hoot. Got root! (:K

I really appreciate your work on this, beh/bhigham! If I can get to RapidShare and pull down that 622 EzSBF Root ISO (whatever's up with my ISP etc denying access for now is hopefully a temporary thing I can work around soon), then I will absolutely be your guineapig, or at least my artoo unit will be a "willing volunteer for experimentation."

THANK YOU (owe you a root-beer).
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
No problem, glad that worked for you.

If you have a suggestion for another site, I can try uploading the CD there, or could even break it in two pieces and put it on mediafire.

Don't like that as a regular method, but it would work in a pinch.
[Droid 2 General] ovelayer:
thank you everyone for your responses..sorry its been alittlebit but its been busy here on the farm and with kexec development I have been busy playing with my phone as the d2 is my sons..

after rereading the op and all of the posts I burned the ezroot cd and bam worked the first time and was super easy..I guess I was trying to do it the hard way at first..thank you for making the cd and making it possible for me not to have to buy my son a d3 yet lol..
[Droid 2 General] Jairconnor:
Problema con mi bateria

Hola a todos y espero que me puedan ayudar!

Despues de actualkizar ala version 2.3.4 se borro el acceso root a mi droid 2 y hasta que encontre este post solucione el acceso root pero me surgio un problema,la bateria me aparece con un signo de interrogacion y no me deja cargar ,e estado buscando como solucionar este problemapero no e encontrado nada ,espero que por aqui se me pued.a ayudar muchas gracias se los agradecere mucho,saludos!
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
De verdad no se que ocasionaria este problema. Lo de root no debe causar nada asi. Sugiero limpiar los contactos de la bateria, pero de verdad no se. Si tiene acceso a otra bateria, seria bueno probarlo a ver si funciona o no.

Dependiendo donde vive, se consiguen las baterias nuevas en buen precio, en Amazon o Ebay cuestan alrededor de $5.

No se si nadie mas tiene sugerencias.

The question here for non Spanish speakers is what would cause a battery error with a question mark. I have no experience with the error, but mentioned that he could try cleaning the contacts, and see if that helped, or try or buy another battery. If anyone else has experience on this, maybe you can provide more help.
[Droid 2 General] MissionImprobable:
Don't you guys come in here cluttering this thread up with German!
[Droid 2 General] polejr:
Finally!

Came to post that this fix was working for me with my 621 original Droid 2

I am so happy to finally be off the awful Rom that they forced on me after sending in for a factory refurb.

It took many attempts and trying various methods to install ClockWorkMod and then CM7, but the trick turned out to be the Droid 2 Bootstrap Recovery app on the market.

All of my attempts to install CM7 without ClockWorkMod failed, giving me a "Signature Invalid" error. Once CWM was on, it installed like a champ.

Thanks to the developers that made this possible. My phone runs 200x better than it did with that insanely bloated factory rom.
[Droid 2 General] spaceplustime:
Awesome was looking for something like this!
[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
I believe the most likely cause of this is a bad battery maybe from the macgyver charging method, using stripped usb wires to charge battery
[Droid 2 General] mrcatpc:
Droid2_R2D2_A957_2.3.4_SBF_and-or_RootCD.iso

Just a quick note to say I ran this full fixed 622 SBF reflash and successfully rooted, both procedures performed from this EzSBF bootable ISO on CD-R, worked like a dream. I cleared cache and rebooted as prompted in the on-screen directions, and I did not clear data or perform factory reset, in case anyone was wondering whether that's absolutely necessary, in my case it was fine this way. With my goal being rooted stock R2-D2 A957 on GB 2.3.4 VZW v622, this self-contained utility disc was exactly what I needed. Thanks again, bhigham!

I put more extensive details at DroidForums.net on the Official R2-D2 Owners Thread.
[Droid 2 General] Jairconnor:
Graciass,podrías explicarme como es eso de limpiar contactos estoy muy desesperado
[Droid 2 General] bhigham:
Al quitar la bateria del telefono, puede ver donde la bateria tiene contacto con el telefono, tiene contactos de color de oro.

Limpiar estos con algodon, y meter la bateria otra vez en el telefono.

Pero es posible/probable que la bateria este mal, como mencionó el otro.