yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Yes this is an advanced root method compared to a lot of others. I used to never even want to touch ADB due to bricking. Honestly if you follow the instructions step by step to the word you will BE FINE!

Recovery development is going slow mostly due to everyones outside life and there not being anything to work off of. We literally have to make one from pretty much scratch on a empty shell of a recovery for a similar phone.

I just got my new netbook, and now that new years is almost here I'm going to be working more on a recovery. Would love to collab in real time with some of you guys on G+ hangouts, add me.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
Yep this is a tough nut to crack lol but I'm down to collabe
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Just found out hiw to get screen shots. Power + vol - gets you a screenshot.

Funny enough, i also accidentally boooted into bootloader, still haven't found the combo
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
I am trying to extract the complete Stock ROM, including the bootloader and the recovery for anyone who bricks their phone.

Hopefully I will be done by evening
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
cat /proc/mtd shows no such file or directory

Seems like they are not using standard memory mapping
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Check that out
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
SWEEETT ! nice job dude were you able to extract ? bootloader or no ? and the combo for bootloader is POWER + VOLUME UP + VOLUME DOWN there is also a download mode like a samsung phone that is achived by booting into bootloader and navigating to download mode
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Looks like were making a little progress here, after I take my son sledding like I've promised him for 2 days now I will take a shot at making a recovery again, I got some late time tonight due to it being the weekend and me being sick taking off work today helps out as well. I really want this to work out for us, this is an awesome phone, and I REALLY need to fix the Camera. It is horrible.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakshow999:
Thanks a lot for the root! It made me finally get off my ass and setup dual boot Ubuntu/Win 7 lol.

I just want to also inform everyone I have got native wifi tethering working! Instructions can be found on the thread link below:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071054
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Sad part is that's the same reason I decided to finally give up on Windows and fully convert to Ubuntu on my laptop... that and I finally got to try out windows 8 and wow what a turd that thing is.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Just windows 7 with some a$$ worked gui.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Yeah the recovery wont extract. Tried rom dump, failed!

Tried make - j4 otatools on cynogenmod repo, failed.

Any ideas?

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Vmware like a bosss!!!! I like win7 cause of its ease of use and the games, but ubuntu is the mother of them all in programming.

At this rate, i might just buy an ubuntu only laptop
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Can you all post methods and links to what you are actually doing I'm sure others (myself Included) would love to help out but don't even know what step one is for getting a custom recovery or backup of the phone.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Just so everyone knows I am working with Utkanos to try to get a custom recovery built for this phone (CWM). Not sure if it will turn out or not but I will let you all know as soon as we have something I will need a victim... err.... uhm... a volunteer, to try it out for me. I don't have access to my laptop at the moment and im doing everything from the terminal so there may be some limitation to what I can do.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] danny081482:
Thanks a-lot!!!

I finally installed Ubuntu and successfully rooted my phone you were right, it was super super easy. Thank you for your time. But i have one more question, how can i get the wireless hotspot to work without me getting a message to call at&t.?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakshow999:
[/COLOR]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2071054

It was about five post above yours. And easy find using a Google or XDA search.

;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] noobfordroid:
cwm recovery

I was able to use fastboot but got the below message.

root@shyamalapati:/home/shyamalapati/android/out/target/product/p8010# fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (6904 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.707s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: Not Support !!)

finished. total time: 1.713s
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Did you already compile a custom recovery? What exactly where you doing ... im new to the whole custom recovery thing aside from installing it via clockwork recovery so im not exactly sure what it is im doing or what your doing for that matter.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
he was trying to flash a recovery using the bootloader but what recovery were you trying to flash ?? did you alrady create a custom recovery for our device ? or were u trying to flash a recovery for another device in which case the fail message is a given ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] noobfordroid:
I extracted the recovery and built a cwm recovery for flex and trying to flash it. I am also a newbie to this cwm but went through some tutorials online for porting cwm and created it but stuck while pushing it to the phone
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Might be that we have a locked bootloader. I know some phones like the samsungs have that "feature" and they have to go through some fun steps to get it to work. Could you post links to the how to's that you used while making the CWM. That way the rest of us know what page your on and might be able to help you along the way.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
I never had a problem using hotspots when I rooted my HTC and LG phones. I think it is a built in software limitation that's stopping that cause no hotspot apps I used work either. I would wait until recovery and a ROM becomes available and then give it another try.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakshow999:
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His post is referring to using the phone as a wifi hot spot which I already solved look up a few posts for the link or search my threads.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Oh well that's what I was trying to explain and refer too. Didnt know there was a fix though that's good to know.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
Also; please upload your cwm port yes it seems we do have a locked boot loader also we have a root detecting boot loader and counter and kernel detecting boot loader its a doozy to check out the bootloadee just power off then power on while holding volume up and down

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Also have any of you figured out what the pdl downloading mode in the boot loader is for ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
I'm way to into diablo 3 right now but if I remember they are packages with phone updates. I think they work like .KDZ files. I'd google it but its definitely a file that can be flashed to your phone with the use of a program (probably made by pantech or partner) that will do the flash.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] noobfordroid:
link for building bootloader

i couldn't post the link as part of my message. donavan01 i sent it to you as a PM can you post it here

I am about to try out on my phone. i have a newb question. if i brick my phone can i still access adb?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
I got you message but no link in it ... as to the ADB bricking normally the answer is no. Android needs to boot before adb can be initialized ... unless Im completely missing something.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
If that is so and we do have an Odin type app for our phone to flash :) we could exploit that and try to get a moded recovery flashed up on our phones
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Well, I was already following your thinking.

I wanted to look into using the PDL files to flash recoveries to the phone. Usually doing something like this is because in our case there might not be any other way. In the other case we might just be to far locked out of the phone to be able to just flash a recovery via ADB. So maybe a modded KDL is the way to go, either way I'm downloading it now and am going to see what I can come up with. I still don't know if I'm going to want to flash anything though, the Pantech Burst, and CrossOver both have backup images they can use to flash via PDL file but we do not because our phone is still pretty new, so there is no updates to a better OS. The tools I downloaded even came from the Pantech Burst page on Pantech's website. So I'm going to mess around with that and get back with everyone on it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
I doubt were that locked out do you think the burst has the same boot loader ? And I will work on extracting the img file
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
I couldnt open the pdl with winrar so not sure what needs to be done. Im just waiting for a email back from pantech.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakshow999:
Might try 7zip it's free and is able to open almost everything.

Regarding the burst bootloader I know the system structure is very similar to the Flex. I found this out getting the wifi tethering enabled. Hope that might help.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
thats what i thought too hopefully they could help us outt and hmm lemme give the pdl a crack
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Whooa went upcountry for a week and all this love for the flexx...am liking this!!!!

And how did anyone pull the stock recovery? We need to have them just in case we brick our phones.

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my email address is briankariu@gmail.com invite me to gtalk
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
well the holiday season is over so you will see this thread pick up allot more and allot of people starting to get involved more everyone brings something to the table ! and no we have not yet pulled the stock image the problem is we do not know how to use PDL files yet whatever knowledge we have of PDLS is strictly based on the Pantech Burst model
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] noobfordroid:
recovery image

Recovery image can be found at /dev/block/mmcblk0p19

All the list of the mounts can be found in "/dev.block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name" on the device

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I have already extracted the boot.img and recovery.img from the phone. if any one want to work with pm and i cna send the download link
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Send me the link for both at Briankariu@gmail
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] danny081482:
Ok, i cannot for the life of me get rid of those sample videos and music. Any ideas how to remove?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
I havent tried this but you may have to use something like astro file manager that has root access or possibly something a little more vicious and get TI Backup. You should be able to use adb to shell into the phone and use su to rm the files once you locate them also.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] danny081482:
I tried using a root access file manager with no success. It won't even let me change the permissions on it. I will try and fool around with it some more though. I'll keep u guys posted.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Then I would suggest going in through adb and doing an su then rm <filename>
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
really i was able to delte them through my galary ? lol just press and hold the sample album and delte
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] danny081482:
I did that too and they do go away, but when i restart my phone they come back. They never go away using a file manager though. Also the "together.mp3" song that is on there.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
well i guess well just have to wait for a recovery n rom to come out debloated man to be honest with u i hope its soon my flashing fix has been off the charts that ive reverted to my sidekick 4g to just flash flash flash lol
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Well we could use all the help we can get. Can whoever pulled the partitions post them on mediafire or something so they can be downloaded for everyone?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] noobfordroid:
I cannot post the links here as i am a new user. If sometime can post the links i can pm them
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Sure send em my way ill make a new thread and credit you.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eaa628:
problems rooting

maybe someone can help me. when i do adb devices this is what shows up

erik@ubuntu:~$ adb devices

List of devices attached

????????????	no permissions

not a linux guy so any help would be great.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Looks like you missed a step. I'd go back and follow the directions to the T
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eaa628:
Well got it.. My dumb butt didn't turn on MTP. Thanks for the input though. Now on to another question. Is their any way at all to disable LTE? It is a real battery hog I have tried to change it in the service menu but it does not take. Any suggestions?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Dont feel bad took me 3 hours to realize to even do that when I was writing the how to.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eaa628:
Thanks donavan1 for your work on this. I will toss this question to you. I have done you know a way to shut off the LTE radio on the phone so it doesn't kill the battery so fast? We don't have LTE here and it drops the battery fast. I originally had a burst and when the rooted romantic cam out it was set to WCDMA preferred so the battery on that even though smaller lasted longer. But for some reason the Flex won't allow the change even in phone settings service menu.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
*#*#4636#*#*gets you to the hidden testing menu. Here, you can select the prefferred network mode under phone information and scroll down to set prefferred network

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Just sent this mail to Pantech USA
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] eaa628:
Yep that was the one in tried. Like I said it will not take the change it always reverts back.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
can someone try this method ? please ive been runing into brick walls with adb on my box trying to do this help a guy out this is how to create and flash a custom recovery since we have our boot img and recovery image now we are able to do this! heres the link for recovery posted by jsterrling and heres the link on how to create the custom recovery and flash

Link 1 stock recovery n boot image: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36379964#post36379964

Link 2 how to: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.ph...recovery_image

we have been working on this for quite some time and this seems simple but it just might work!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Well, I'm at my fiances moms, and sense the wife is doing laundry I'm going to take a shot at this, just let me load up my VM and I will report back at the end of the night. I just wish I had more time for this, I can SMELL customization pooring out of this phone!

EDIT: atadres I am also getting a 404 on the guide, is the link right?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
its the same guide posted in your post with the images @jsterlling
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
GUYS NOOBforDROID has posted a screen shot of recovery working on our device! here over at the image file post !!! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2083937&page=3
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
Now all we need to do is figure out the SD card issue.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
i hope they do! but if not id be glad to take a look I'm sure they will figure it out but if their stumped they should release the recovery as a WIP or BETA and we could all take a crack at it I'm thinking the problem is we failed to map the SD cards location in the Recovery
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ss4adam:
Not recognizing phone in ubuntu

I'm new to Ubuntu (and this site). Having trouble rooting this device... Basically i have Ubuntu running on Oracle Virturalbox Windows host. My Ubuntu doesn't see the Pantech flex connected via USB. Windows host sees it but not the Ubuntu. Any ideas how i can recognize the device? basically i got stuck on instructions since the terminal command "adb devices" shows "List of devices attached" and nothing shows up. Any thoughts? Thanks a ton
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mikey199:
I don't think you can use a VM dude. Maybe try a CD or DVD live disc.

Sent from my PantechP9070
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] freakshow999:
I ran into the same problem running in a Win7 VM. I just ended up installing Ubuntu dual boot. It's really simple if you do that and pay attention to the instructions exactly.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
If you just use VMware workstation and install VM Tools attach the phone to the VM. It works perfect.

VMs are possible.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
IT seems that VMWare will work but Vbox will not I think this has to do with the USB drivers. I know that Vbox only supports USB pass through in certain instances or when you purchase the full version (or at least they did could have changed since last I checked). Personally I wouldn't screw with it I would just run Ubuntu from a Flash Drive or a CD/DVD if you don't want to install.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ss4adam:
Thanks everyone for the help! I'll give this a shot tonight and let you know if that was the issue. Say I use a live disk, I have to install the android adb stuff. When i save all that stuff in some directory, will windows be able to see it and delete it afterwards? This is just out of curiosity since i may only live boot once and then never use Ubuntu again (Prob will use VMware but still just curious about what happens).

Thanks again!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mikey199:
It won't save anything unless you install it or tell it a place to save. So unless it's explicitly marked when you shutdown or restart all will be gone. USB stick can save if it's setup correctly. You can save to windows if you download or setup NTFS app (forget the name) so you can read and write to windows. Think Ubuntu has it by default but might not be turned on not sure been a while since I used Linux.

Sent from my PantechP9070
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
my honest opinion is to just do a dual boot using a fresh install on a partition in your hard drive honestly i have tried many methods and i have ran into problems with all of them while testing except for the clean install on a partition via hard drive wubi gave me issues where it was not correctly recognizing the drivers and stuff a live disc does not save a live usb can be a hassle to deal with the cleanest install was (LINUX MINT using MATE DESKTOP on a fresh install partition then when ur done theres this nifty delete button on ur windows where u can delete ur partition and re expand your windows installation just from experience id advise this as the most through way to get it rooted
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ShotSkydiver:
Just got the Pantech Discover, trying to get root... this method does not work. It runs and hangs at the restore, after I tap "restore phone" on the device. I'll make a separate thread for Discover root, but is there a way I can get this method to work or has it been patched by Pantech/Google?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] donavan01:
Could be that there is some issue with the script and changes in the timing or something. Try running Bin4ry's original script and see if that works for you if not shoot me a PM and I may be able to help you out.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
At&t just pushed an update. I was hoping it was jellybean, but its just a maintenance update. Its only 12mb. Somebody post a screenshot with the current biuld number
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jSterling:
If you make a few changes to the lines you add in gedit you might be able to get it to work.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
ok so after banging my head a couple of times i realized a way to flash CWM! perminantly using a combo of fastboot and the actual recovery

OK! soooo what we should do is create a flashable zip of the recovery image adb push it to sd card or manually copy it to sd card file! we have ! fastboot boot boot.img into the recovery and flash the zip file!!!! bam! itll stick we would need to create a flashable script tho!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] atadres:
Guys we have recovery! Let the rom building begin!! Timmythanoob and I have teamed up to bring cwm to the flex tutorial is available. On xda now

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2133857
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aaki_rocker:
i just made a small guide to root this phone using windows !!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37806193#post37806193
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] gioboom:
Pantech Flex P8010 BRICKED!!!!

could somebody please help me and send me a stock nandroid backup of Pantech Flex P8010 please i need it urgent i bricked my phone
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] briankariu:
Lool what did u do? I have to factory reset my phone before i do a backup. Plus i think I need a ⁴gb external card coz i tried backing up with a 2gb card and I ran out of memory
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] isa.ahmed:
no luck, that there is ROM for this? to have 4.1.1 on it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mikiemc73:
Almost Rooted

so, I traded up from my Motorola Bravo(MB520) to this wonderful beast, brought it home, and the first place i went was here...tried to root it, and well everything says its rooted, but when i start up anything that requires root permissions it gets denied. anybody got any ideas?:eek:

Also as soon as i can resolve this problem,and get CWM on it, i will F/R the phone, and make a clean nandroid for emergencies.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zapper_master:
what root method did you use ?