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[HTC Inspire 4G] Cool Name:
I too am fresh from the iPhone scene and new to the Inspire as well as Droid. I jailbroke load of iPhones. I am looking for a method to root but will ask no questions yet because I am still “educating myself”. This is how I found this thread.

I do want to say that I do tech support and have certifications and what not in various computer stuff (no need to go into details). I know that what I read and understand is different from what others read and understand. Not all of us are in the Nerd Herd.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you come here to answer questions for others, you are volunteering your time and you are going through the trouble of answering. Why waste more of your time reprimanding someone for not searching? Give them pointers and tips on how to use the search features, give them the answer or move on. It’s really very simple. Not everyone can afford new phones and really just want to root their phone without turning it into a paperweight. I don’t see anything wrong with that; it is an investment they probably don’t want to screw up and then be told “why didn’t you ask?”.

To the noobs like myself. These people who serve these forums as pros answer questions day in and day out, they make it a goal to be informed and have probably read or written your question and answer more times than you have THOUGHT it.

It’s very aggravating for someone to come in and ask a question that has been answered hundreds, possibly thousands of times. I am an an admin/moderator on several other sites (not droid or phone sites) and can absolutely agree with these others that a little searching and reading can get you a long way toward your goal. Also, it is VERY easy to spot those who want a golden egg dropped in their lap with no work. I have been browsing these forums for 3 weeks and still don’t know how to root mine. Of course, it’s been more of a curiosity in the past. Only now am I beginning to get serious about it.

As for the manual, I write manuals and have for years; for school, work, and fun. I know how to “write in crayon” for people like myself. Once I figure out how to root my Inspire, I would be happy to write one. There is no such thing as too many issues to document. My truck has a manual and thousands of trouble codes to Google so I know it can be done. You just have to persevere and organize.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
^^^THIS, THIS, THIS^^^^^

I will say, if you look to the right, just above the forums, you can search just in the forum or thread you're in to better hone your results. I just found that search box yesterday or 2 days ago.
[HTC Inspire 4G] konical:
Rooting Inspire 4G

Hi, xda-developers friend

I have a 4G inspire you restore the factory with S-off and Sim unlock, what I want now and make me Root, but according lei I can not use the Hack Tool ACE method because it is only for new device; so want your help to make me root and to install custom Rom. or know if I can use the method of ACE Hack Tool.

thanks in advance.
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
Konical, The Hack Kit is the only player in town to root the inspire. You should read carefully as I guess you didn´t understand what the manual is stating. All inspires are supported but some of them with a certain build versions have to be downgraded. Before you mess your phone, read again until you realise what you are about to do.
[HTC Inspire 4G] biglittlegato:
I may be wrong but, with s-off, doesn't he just need to flash a rooted rom?

Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
You are absolutly right, that is why I told him to read the manual...where it says that if you run it when u already are S-OFF you will get jammed. I guess, he doesnt know very well what he is about to do...and that my friend is the main reason to get stuck.....:D
[HTC Inspire 4G] biglittlegato:
You are correct sir. My comment was irresponsible. I will not do it again.

Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Diesel321:
Bubbys kit is no longer supported from what I understand. I was a TOTAL noon (and I mean total, I didn't even know what linux was..) So I read for 3 days on here and Google became my lover (for definitions, eg... Anything I didn't understand) then found the AAHK from attn1 and read the effen manual a few times, a few clicks and sometime later I was rooted. For the next month or so I got myself stuck in bootloops and light bricked my phone at least once every other day. Asking questions is how we learn. Some get it easier than others. Anyways fins the Hack Kit read everything about it give it a shot. Ask questions (some people will hassle you you will become good friends. It's a process. With Titanium Backup you can delete bloat. Radios aren't 100% necessary but everything is explained in the effen manual in the hack kit. It makes the gold card and Downgreades if need be. Hope this helped

Yea I know I ramble
[Legend Android Development] r69001:
Hi everyone

I installed a trackball wake screen script, and its great.

But I want the trackball perform like the menu button (will bring me to the desktop)

I guess that it is possible, its just that someone needs to do it... (and I cant because i dont know how...)

What do you think? :confused:
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Look into button remapping, and remap the trackball to the home button ;)
[Legend Android Development] r69001:
What do you mean?

how do you do that?

Edit I found a guild but what is the code of the trackball?
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
I dunno, work it out. This is in the development forum, remember? ;)
[Legend Android Development] psyionx:
Haha, imagine your reading something on the web with small link that your finger just wouldn't make it there easily. then you use the trackball to select it. then... boom your at your home screen when you press the trackball. now thats surprising.

next case... your with your camera app.... you told your cat to smile... and... you know... u missed the moment to catch your cat actually smiled.

ok... not too sure but unless you can include a long press method. it might work.
[Legend Android Development] r69001:
Well, the reason I want to do it is that im not using the trackball at ALL.....

you see?
[Legend Android Development] cobraplayer:
Hmmmmm. Inspired by iphone home button?

-

Swyped from my legend using XDA app.
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
So what if it is?
[Legend Android Development] MaBlo:
Blasphemy! ;)
[Legend Android Development] r69001:
Can u stop with the spam?....

Grammer... I thought I have found it doesnt change...

I did make home to function like the trackball but I counldnt do the opposite...

Can u tell me exactly what i need to change in Querty and in Legend-Keypad?

Thank you
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
No, because I genuinely don't know... Sorry. I might have a poke around, but don't hold be to it.

What can't you do the reverse of what you did though? Find the keycode for the trackball (I think CWM will tell you) and set that to behave like the home button. That's what I'd do ;)

EDIT:

trackball is 272

also try 232 and 108
[HTC Inspire 4G] matt_b:
i originally created this thread in the aria forum, but i've linked it about 4 times already here in the inspire general.

Battery Life Improvement Tips

a read of those tutorials (and subsequent doing what they suggested) will help your battery life a lot!
[Desire HD General] equlizer:
I have the Telus version of the Desire HD and its been rooted and running raidroid 1.84 rom for the last week and decided to try revolution with no sense.

I wiped and formatted and cleaned all before flashing. I flashed the rom first, then the no sense one then the telus kernel afterwards.

Well it boots up fine and goes through the setup but after that it just hangs on a blank screen and only shows the status bar up top. (wifi, signal, time, etc) I cant do anything! If i reboot, it just goes back to the main screen where you swipe to unlock (yes that works) but then thats it.

EDIT: Thought id reboot again but now it hangs on the "android" screen and just keeps going and going :(
[Android] Nixeus:
Hello my friends,

I have a gpad gforce which is a tab on android 2.2.

The firmware comes from these files :

* ramdisk.img

* recovery.img

* system.img

* u-boot-no-padding.bin

* uimage ( no extension)

* uramdisk.img

I know that i can modify the system.img in order to add/remove some APK and create an update.zip.

But, i have a question, i don't see any boot.img. Is u-boot-no-padding.bin my boot.img ?

Where is my kernel ?

What is the uimage ?

I'm a bit lost with these file.

Thanks a lot for some explanations :)

regards,

Nixeus
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lok03:
where is the 2.2.1 update for huawei ascend ????? froyo Update for huawei ascend????

I'm waiting for the update ... are no longer talking **** and dry the update...:mad:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jadden:
Dude wwe do have froyo not official but devs made it & we have other custom roms like Icarus Aquarius Knuckarius shadow and more just go to

Myascend.org and say that 12partyboy told you to go there.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dEris:
Tons of dev work for the ascend is on MyAscend.org =)

[ I used my LG Optimus V to send this message ]
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] reeflover:
why cant i get on my ascend it just keeps saying error on page and the screen is black someone please help me
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dEris:
You're using IE. My site has issues with that browser. Download Google Chrome =) you like Google right? =)

[ I used my LG Optimus V to send this message ]
[HD2 General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Hi guys,

I am originally from the xperia x10 section.

I am gonna buy a windows mobile for my sister on her birthday next Month. She always wanted to buy a windows phone which is fast and stable. The looks of the xperia x1 and HD 2 amazed her.

I wanted your help to choose the best of the two. I know hd2 is superior in specs.

Are there many roms for the hd2?

What might be the future of the device?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions! :-)

Cheers!

AdY
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
before you get lots of 'are you serious? can you not see??' type replies, , look around the forum, its the most hacked phone around. winmo android, wp7, dualboot, nand android, sd android, ubuntu, win95, they all work on hd2.

roms, there are loads, what do you want? winmo 6.5, winmo 6.5.5, win phone 7, android eclaire, froyo, gingerbread, have one android on nand another on sd card if you want, run win phone 7 fron nand and dual boot it with sd card android, loooads of options, tehre isnt another phone about with as much choice. (You only have to compare teh number of sub foryums the hd2 has.)

As for the future, it has no future. It is the last of a dying breed. From here on out the phones will be a little less hackable. Thats not to say they wont be hacked, far from it im sure, but the choice of what you run on it is likely to be more limited, and you are unlikely to see a phone that is so easy to switch between OS's for some time.

I for one will by buying up two or three hd2's in the next few months, shoudl last me a year or three.
[HD2 General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Hey bro! Thanks forbthe reply. Yes ibhad checked out the forum and I was pretty amazed with the amount of hacking that has been done on this phone.the reason why I am attracted to this device is that it supports or rather runs many popular platforms. I saw a couple of video reviews from phone dog, they say that the device freezes many times! My x10 used to lag but now I have tweaked it, it runs silky smooth. So are there methods to remove the freeze issue?

Thanks a ton :-)

Cheers!

AdY
[HD2 General] gh0zt36:
hd2 or xperia?

hd2 can run ubuntu meego android windows mobile win phone 7 believe it or not even full version of windows 98/me its got a snapdragon 1ghz processor its soooo customizable from boot screens to roms its just a better deal and now you can pick one up on craigslist for under 200 ive seen as low as 150 hd2 is the way to go
[HD2 General] uzziah0:
I think the biggest thing to consider is how your sister will be able to use the HD2.

Look at what she uses now, and how that is different from the HD2, how tech knowledgeable is she.

Is she interested in changing the ROM? Will she be able to do that? Will you do that for her?

My niece had a Wm6.x phone, but never truly used it to even a fraction of its abilities, and always had problems with it. [Now she has a Blackberry, and is doing great.]
[HD2 General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Hey thanks for the reply! By looking at what you said this phone looks very promising! Will definitely go ahead with thus now :-)

Cheers!

AdY
[HD2 General] Vito Andolini Corleone:
Lol its not an issue. She uses the xperia x10 mini. She got quite bored if the form factor and all. I help her installing roms so that isn't an issue. She is pretty tech savy :-) thanks for your suggestion and reply bro! I will definitely go ahead with this device! !! Thanks once again :-)

Cheers!

AdY
[Desire HD General] franklin20uk:
Recently sold my iphone 4, and decide that I might give an android phone a go since I am seeing some fantastic development in this community.

One of the most intriguing yet confusing subject is flashing custom rom, with so many different custom rom around, I was wondering how you guys decide which one to use, consider that there seems to be quite a few excellent ones around? Or its just simply a matter of preference like choosing a theme?

I also very keen to see a custom Gingerbread ROM on DHD, since I have read that 2.3 will never be release for this device most likely, can anyone give me any insight of upcoming a practical version of 2.3 base custom ROM?

Sorry abt asking some many question on my first post :p

Thanks
[Desire HD General] j3yps:
I can only give you my two cents regarding my your first question.

personally i've tried Android Revolution and LeeDroid

LeeDroid is fast but i didn't like the custom animation and bootloader(i still want a stock looking phone) so i opted to flask AndroidRevolution so far so good it's fast and has excelent battery life! :-)
[Desire HD General] franklin20uk:
I see.

Can you give me an idea how the custom improves the battery life practically? may be some facts/statistics as well?

I notice leeDroid and revolution can overclock the phone CPU as well, is that safe?

BTW, I see this terminology "S-OFF" a lot, what is that?

Thanks for your quick reply
[Desire HD General] dr.m0x:
s-off stands for "security off". By default your phones rom memory is read only or "security on". Basically s-off will allow you to read/write to the rom memory and install custom roms etc. There are two types of s-off.

The first is radio s-off which will allow you full read/write access to the flash memory and skips the security check when flashing radios to allow you to downgrade as well as upgrade your radio. This type of s-off is also unable to be removed by flashing an official update. Because it cannot be removed except by deliberate action it is considered a must have. Having said that you cannot actually flash a radio without the second type of s-off.

The second type is engineering hboot s-off which replaces the bootloader itself (like the computers bios) with an enginering version. It is often referred to as simply eng hboot, eng s-off etc. This type of s-off does not allow downgrading of the radio and will be wiped out if you flash an official update to your phone. The advantage of this type of s-off is that you will be able to use fastboot commands from the bootloader. Ironically without fastboot you cannot flash radios so in the end it is reccomended to get both types of s-off.

Personally I use the Leedroid rom with his custom kernel 2.06 and its awesome. I don't have the transition animations. I have also heard good things about ARHD but havent used it since the early days.
[Desire HD General] AndroHero:
S-off stands for security off, the htc bootloader comes with certain security measures, to make parts of the nand chip read only! By making the device s-off, you can write to these partitions, letting you flash custom roms, custom recoverys and modify the /system partition.
[Desire HD General] AndroHero:
You beat me to it mox lol
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Personally I would recommend using CyanogenMod ROM's the CM team put a huge amount of effort into stability so the roms tend to be very usable as a day to day ROM without the bling (and attendent cpu loads) of the fancy UI's ala Sense. Cm6.1.3 is the latest stable release whilst if you want to give gingerbread a whirl try cm7.

BTW although what you say about 2.3 is undoutably true do not worry as I am as sure as can be the dhd will see 2.4 and subsequent releases.
[Desire HD General] dr.m0x:
Yes of course, i was using a keyboard =)

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I'm not happy to see you, that's a Desire HD in my pocket.
[Desire HD General] wid0w:
I'm making a guide which should be out tomorrow regarding flashing custom roms.

I, for one, opted for revolution and I love it. It's stockish, it's fast, it's way better, excellent battery life
[Desire HD General] PHPanos:
I just rooted my DHD and would also like to know what rom to get. I would want it to be Gingerbread-like because I like changes. But Android Revolution HD seems so popular, fast etc it makes it really hard to choose. Is there a comparison of those two somewhere? Pros and cons? And which rom has the best performance in games for example?
[Desire HD General] thiagodark:
you must to know that you can change the transitions and opening scene... =o)

to be honest, i stick with what most people flash... the rom is more tested, and even if you are a really unlucky guy and got problems with, it's more easy to get support, and find people with same issue.. =oP it's always nice to think about it when you are a noob, like me! =o)

in the case of leedroid and revolution, i tested both... decide between a bad and a good thing is easy, but decide between two great things is pretty hard, the decision is taken about trivial details. i won't say what i got cause it's pointless... you really should try both (and even more if you don't be satisfied neither! =oP
[Desire HD General] Diffler:
Sorry for throwing my question here, but I'm just a brand new Android user from tha Wii Modding community (...what?)

What are the disadvantages of rooting your phone? Can you still use the official updates and the market?

Thanks!
[Desire HD General] franklin20uk:
The no sense-Revolution HD rom seem to be Gingerbread like.

Let me know how much u getting out of ur battery after you installed the Revolution rom :)
[Desire HD General] PHPanos:
As I care much about performance, do you happen to know the performance difference between the sense and no-sense ARHD?
[Desire HD General] franklin20uk:
I have another question while I am at it. I was doing some digging around on this forum about sim unlocking DHD.

It seems that is it not possible unless buying the IME unlock code from the network or third party website.

Is that still true?
[Desire HD General] a33a:
Nope, the one-click easy radio S-off tool will also unlock your phone. Handy tool that.
[Desire HD General] a33a:
The only disadvantage of rooting is that your warranty will be void -but that is easily reversed. You shouldn't flash the official OTA (over the air) updates either - as they will disable your root possibly for a long time, but don't worry , as soon as an official update is released: It will be in ROMS within hours.

Market is unaffected - you can find apps that require root on the market!
[Desire HD General] Manning23:
If you decided to root you're phone, Look also @ the MIUI rom.

It brings the best features of IOS,Android and Samsung Bada together in a very stable fast Custom rom! :cool:
[Desire HD General] vinokirk:
Ey up fellas. I was gonna start my own thread, but this seems to be just what I was after :D

Coming from a Dell Streak which is an amazing device, mostly due to the work of DJ Steve for his custom ROMS. But I can't deal with the constant resets and sticking touchscreen, which has nothing to do with the software, its happened since day one. So I've decided a Desire HD is on the cards :)

The missis has a DZ but I havent put any custom ROM's or s-off'd it, so I'm a newbie in the Desire family area! But I've messed around with the Streak a lot and countless other WinMo 6.5 phones so I should be ok.

One question: I'm getting the DHD second hand. Say the guy who had it before me has updated it OTA to the most recent offical ROM, would this mean that I can't S-Off it? Or is there always a way to get custom ROMs on it etc?
[Desire HD General] franklin20uk:
Thanks vinokirk for bringing this up, this is inevitably one of my upcoming question as well, thou I might be aftering a brand new DHD black edition exclusive to Orange in UK, cause thats just sexy! Regardless this will be one of my concern since the black DHD is a recent release.

Thanks
[Optimus One, P500, V General] shotgun32:
the title says it all. i found that with megatron installed on your phone. the mik os kernel cant be applied. i checked my kernel it still says lg electronics 2.6.32.9.

i installed mik os kernel many times but still, it seems like the kernel cant work with megatron rom. but worked using custom roms. or is just me?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] AsherChua:
I suggest you flashed it again.Its working well on mine!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] MNKat:
Works great on my friend's Megatron :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Jaylapeno:
Works perfectly fine for me, although I'm using an older version, which is v1.0. Its worked perfectly for me so I didn't upgrade to v1.1. You can download v1.0 and try it to see if it works.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] aursta:
works great on my megatron:cool:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Migital Warfare:
Is anyone else seeing this? My phone was reporting 60% before rebooting. After it booted up, my battery was reporting 26%. Rebooted again, and it reported 36%. Rebooted again, and now it's saying 51%.

What the hell is going on with my battery? Is there a fix for this? As listed in my signature, I'm running the latest Nebula ROM on DK28.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p3dr0maz:
This is relevant to my interests. I noticed the same thing on my phone. I just charged it overnight to full and havent rebooted. not sure what it would report ATM. I did find it concerning though.

Battery calibration issue maybe?

Bonsai4all DK28 EXT4
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtownsend:
Could try letting it run completely flat then completely charging it to see if it sorts itself out
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
ive always had weird battery changes after some reboots all the way back to stock 2.1, i would be at 50 then after a reboot be at 30 then after another reboot it would be 0 and couldnt stay on very long.

Very weird!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Top Nurse:
This a common issue when flashing.

Rule Number 1: Always flash or odin with a full battery.

Rule Number 2: If not following Rule Number 1 then don't cry about screwed phones. ;)

The plausible reason I have heard is that it takes more juice to burn the firmware. I don't know about these chips, but when I used to burn eprom's the same thing was true.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scores87:
with all the new honeycomb roms coming out for other phones (Nexus 1, Dinc, Evo) is there anyway to bring it to milestone and if is possible can someone do it?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Redh3ad:
/nothing here
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] thenotdone:
I'm fairly certain that since 3.0 is a tablet OS, phones with ports of the new firmware are having severe problems (ex. can't make phone calls, landscape doesn't display properly, touch screen doesn't respond as expected, etc.)

Besides, the community is still working on getting 2.3.2 stable enough for daily use.