Android phones:possibly useful information

[zeus17]

So I am not one of the best out there but will try to help if you are having any issues on your android phones.
Questions as well will be entertained as far as my knowledge goes.
Just a bit of giving back to this forums in which i learned a lot.

Just a few notions to clear as well.
Basics:

Rooting

not sure but most are already tech savy nowadays, but would like to run by it just in case someone is still in the dark.

What does it exactly do?

it just gives you administration level access to your phone nothing else. Yes it also voids warranty.

Rooting is useful and pretty much the basic step before you install major stuff on your phone and also major tweaks.
Rooting is useless without any supporting apps or customization.

with root plus the help of root uninstaller (found on the playstore)
you can more or less delete unnecessary apps from your phone,like the samsung store,and every other app on your phone,but keep in mind that the phone is made app of several apps,so deleting something you don't know exactly what is for my turn your phone unusable.


Recovery

its basically one of the back bones of your phone,similar to a bios on your pc,i think.
what it does,well on a factory based recovery,the one that came with the phone, can only help you in unlocking a locked phone,nothing else.

Custom recoveries can do as much as recover a whole system that was already backed up,and gives you privilage to install neat stuff on your phone,like the infamous beats audio that was "exclusive" on htc. even upgrade camera's pixel count,given that somebody already made it for your phone.

common custom roms are cwm and twrp

its basically your best friend.

ROMs and Custom Roms.

Now basically what you see on your phone is called a rom,the feel,gui and response is all dictated by your rom,similar to an os on the pc,


Custom roms
are basically suped up roms.
having various upgrades to what your current rom does not offer.
example,for a samsung note 1 phone.

a custom rom has been made to have an xperia feel to it,xperia interface and even throw in the bravia engine from sony,and beats from htc.



i hope this helps,if any info is outdated,feel free to comment.

[badkuk]

Been wanting to do this, never had the time. Na out of warranty na yung S2 di ko pa naru root :D

[JohnM]

My Note 1 is rooted (for GalaxSIM Unlock) and it's running a custom Speedmod stock kernel. Planning to upgrade to a CM-based kernel because that's the only way I'll be getting KitKat on it.

[ess]

Great start.

If I may, I'd like to suggest you edit your post by using bold font on the main topic headers.

I'd also like to add the following:

• Root - Like what zeus17 said, rooting will only give you admin access to your phone's system. Nothing more, nothing less. When you have admin access, you can now install and run applications that require root privileges, like ROM managers, Titanium Backup, color calibration, etc. Without root privileges, these apps won't run properly. A lot of my friends automatically associate ROOT with getting the goodies that are available on custom roms. (i.e. Wow! Gusto ko rin yang pie controls! Pwede mo bang i-root yung phone ko?) Having Root access will allow you to delete the annoying bloat that branded phones have.
• Bootloader - The closest analogy I can give here is the PC BIOS. When you power on your PC, you will briefly see a "Press DEL to enter the BIOS". Your Android phone, rooted or non-rooted has a bootloader. You can enter your bootloader by powering down your phone. Then hold the volume down button together with the power button. If you are un-rooted and running the factory firmware, you'll enter the default bootloader. The menu items available in the default bootloader ain't much. The magic begins when you flash a custom bootloader. Custom bootloaders provide new functionalities, the most important being the ability to flash Custom Roms. SO, needless to say, you'll need to be flash a custom bootloader FIRST before you can flash a custom rom.
• Custom Rom - This is where you get all your nice doodads.

General steps:

1. Unlock your bootloader. This is needed in order to flash a custom recovery.
2. Install a custom recovery. This is needed in order to ROOT and/or to Install a custom rom.
3. Install the ROOT application. (you can skip this if you want to install a custom rom.)
4. Install a custom rom.

For those of you who want to go this path -- you need to do your homework first. Study. Research. Maybe a week or so of reading forum posts over at XDA and AndroidAuthority.
Although the chances of borking and bricking your phone is pretty low... it is still a possibility. SO preparation is key. Wag lang basta basta sumugod.

[zeus17]

Great start.

If I may, I'd like to suggest you edit your post by using bold font on the main topic headers.

I'd also like to add the following:

• Root - Like what zeus17 said, rooting will only give you admin access to your phone's system. Nothing more, nothing less. When you have admin access, you can now install and run applications that require root privileges, like ROM managers, Titanium Backup, color calibration, etc. Without root privileges, these apps won't run properly. A lot of my friends automatically associate ROOT with getting the goodies that are available on custom roms. (i.e. Wow! Gusto ko rin yang pie controls! Pwede mo bang i-root yung phone ko?) Having Root access will allow you to delete the annoying bloat that branded phones have.
• Bootloader - The closest analogy I can give here is the PC BIOS. When you power on your PC, you will briefly see a "Press DEL to enter the BIOS". Your Android phone, rooted or non-rooted has a bootloader. You can enter your bootloader by powering down your phone. Then hold the volume down button together with the power button. If you are un-rooted and running the factory firmware, you'll enter the default bootloader. The menu items available in the default bootloader ain't much. The magic begins when you flash a custom bootloader. Custom bootloaders provide new functionalities, the most important being the ability to flash Custom Roms. SO, needless to say, you'll need to be flash a custom bootloader FIRST before you can flash a custom rom.
• Custom Rom - This is where you get all your nice doodads.

General steps:

1. Unlock your bootloader. This is needed in order to flash a custom recovery.
2. Install a custom recovery. This is needed in order to ROOT and/or to Install a custom rom.
3. Install the ROOT application. (you can skip this if you want to install a custom rom.)
4. Install a custom rom.

For those of you who want to go this path -- you need to do your homework first. Study. Research. Maybe a week or so of reading forum posts over at XDA and AndroidAuthority.
Although the chances of borking and bricking your phone is pretty low... it is still a possibility. SO preparation is key. Wag lang basta basta sumugod.

di ko na maedit e...huhuhu

in any case great addition to the initial post.

only reason i did not add bootloader there is because not all phones will require you to unlock the bootloader,specially samsungs

out of all manufacturers samsung is the easiest to modify and upgrade,htc,sony are the hardest,since they require bootloaders to be unlocked most of the time.


now for all of those wanting to try,i urge you to read and try it,most resources are found on xda specially mainstream phones,

rooting,unlocking bootloaders,and custom recovery goes hand in hand 9 out of 10,exception of bootloader unlocking on certain phones.
having the proper files,the whole thing usually just takes 5 minutes less.

Now why would you even bother doing this if your phone seems ok???
well then my friend you are missing a lot of things,

imagine owning a ferrari and never enjoying the horses under the hood and not even getting to muster those nice leather seats.

[ess]

Now why would you even bother doing this if your phone seems ok???
well then my friend you are missing a lot of things,

No need to explain this one... for each android phone owner, the root+flash+customROM trigger will come.
And the reason for doing so will probably be different (or slightly different) for each one.

And if that day never comes... then they don't need root+flash+customROM.

[zeus17]

No need to explain this one... for each android phone owner, the root+flash+customROM trigger will come.
And the reason for doing so will probably be different (or slightly different) for each one.

And if that day never comes... then they don't need root+flash+customROM.

so true...

there was a time,na i was satisfied with just root,and custom roms..
but there was also a time when i only needed root and a custom kernel

[robot.sonic]

Wala na ako maintindihan sa mga usapan na to. Diretsong tanong na lang. May ikagaganda pa ba tong phone ko? Lenovo a390.

[Retz]

^

Wala na sir upgrade mo na lang to a809 quadcore and malaki pa screen.


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[robot.sonic]

Nakow! Saka na lang. After 3 years pa siguro.

[zeus17]

Wala na ako maintindihan sa mga usapan na to. Diretsong tanong na lang. May ikagaganda pa ba tong phone ko? Lenovo a390.

meron pa naman po...

i mean relative ung term na ikakaganda..

dual core pa din yan...

now kung paano ito gaganda is up to you,,,

[ROOT] Framaroot, a one-click apk to root some devices - xda-developers
ito unp://forum.xdg rooting procedure niya

una root lang tanggalin ung mga unnecessary apps...

then it up to you..

kung mag veventure ka sa custom roms,which i suggest you do,di ako makakapgrecommend ng specific kasi iab iba panlasa natin e..

ito din links andito na din ung files..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2359306

Step 1: Download and unzip the three attached files.

Step 2: To install the drivers for the computer, had to reboot the computer (Win8 64x) and disable driver signing. Then turn off the phone, connect to the computer, and run the InstallDriver.exe. After the driver installation is complete, disconnect the phone. The phone only makes the pre-loader interface available for a couple seconds when the USB cable is first plugged into the computer.

Step 3: Open the folder with the flash tool, and run Flash_tool.exe. Click the scatter-loading button and select "MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt" from the recovery folder you downloaded. The recovery check box should automatically be populated with the TWRP.img file.

Step 4: Click download button and select "yes" to ignore the dialogue box. The flash software will now wait till it sees the MT6577 interface from the phone. With the phone off. Plug the USB cable into the phone and then into the computer. The flashing software will automatically load the recovery image to the phone. The flash-tool will show the power status bar red to yellow then wait for the message "OK" green is successful, then disconnect the phone, the TWRP recovery has been flashed. If the flash does not detect the phone when you plug it in, check your driver installation from step 2.

Step 5: Access recovery mode by pressing volume up + home + power key until the phone vibrates or it boots into recovery mode, then let go. This time open Team Win Recovery. You now have TW recovery and you can now root your device. (Make android backup first before rooting you phone)

Rooting Lenovo Ideaphone A390

After boot in recovery it will ask you to install superSU just drag/swipe to install. After you reboot the phone, you will have to have internet access to download the GUI. You can download the GUI from the play store, or download a zip which you can flash from recovery.

You are now rooted!

Good Luck
http://youtu.be/lrWQkyOv18E

[brainmafia_310]

Daming bloatware ng ibaibang android devices. Gusto ko din gawin ito kaso tinatamad na ako at nakuntento na sa basic stuff ng phone. Ang gusto ko lang sa CFW at Root is meron mga apps na kahit manakaw phone mo di nila mabubura at nakaimbed padin sa unit kahit anong factory reset at bago maaccess ung pang palit ng FW need mo maiunlock. In short madedetect mo padin via findmymobile app ng samsung.

Mas okay android ngayon dati pasakit maginstall ng ng CFW during the windows mobile days. Hahahha.

Pashare naman din ng info kung ano pinkaclean na software para sa s3 and s4 at inextend nindamsung ng 6 months warranty ng s3 ko kaya pagkatapos mag CFW na ako.

Sa katangahan ko nga pala naiupgrade ko ng wala sa oras s3 and s4 ko sa 4.3 bago ko maiunlock dahil may bug ung 4.1.2 at 4.2.2 na jelly bean at via code lang sa keypad pwedeng maalis factory unlock ng phone.

Kaya sa mga naka s3 at s4 na hindi pa naguupdate ng firmware wag niyo muna iupdate sa jellybean 4.3, iunlock niyo muna at wala pang solusyon sa 4.3.

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[zeus17]

Daming bloatware ng ibaibang android devices. Gusto ko din gawin ito kaso tinatamad na ako at nakuntento na sa basic stuff ng phone. Ang gusto ko lang sa CFW at Root is meron mga apps na kahit manakaw phone mo di nila mabubura at nakaimbed padin sa unit kahit anong factory reset at bago maaccess ung pang palit ng FW need mo maiunlock. In short madedetect mo padin via findmymobile app ng samsung.

Mas okay android ngayon dati pasakit maginstall ng ng CFW during the windows mobile days. Hahahha.

Pashare naman din ng info kung ano pinkaclean na software para sa s3 and s4 at inextend nindamsung ng 6 months warranty ng s3 ko kaya pagkatapos mag CFW na ako.

Sa katangahan ko nga pala naiupgrade ko ng wala sa oras s3 and s4 ko sa 4.3 bago ko maiunlock dahil may bug ung 4.1.2 at 4.2.2 na jelly bean at via code lang sa keypad pwedeng maalis factory unlock ng phone.

Kaya sa mga naka s3 at s4 na hindi pa naguupdate ng firmware wag niyo muna iupdate sa jellybean 4.3, iunlock niyo muna at wala pang solusyon sa 4.3.

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as far as clean is concerned,
if you are currently satisfied sa performance or atleast functionality ng phone,and really don't mind ung touchwiz ui,
stock rom pa din,rooted,manually remove all bloatwares,twrp recovery na password protected.
pero medyo model specific sa s3 kasi dahil me kani kaniyang version ang us carriers,pero kung international version pwede na yan..


sa jellybean upgrade,if warranty is not an issue might as well skip to a custom rom already,99 percent of the time fixed na ung bugs ng official update.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2499904

andyan ung need mo for root and recovery...
pero instead of cwm...i suggest twrp

http://true-android.blogspot.com/201...galaxy-s3.html
(me kitkat rom din dito just in case you will be interested.)

kasi me password protection na inooffer para mawala man,di nila basta basta ma wiwipe ung phone,unless you go thru odin,which in any case is relatively easy..
pero medyo losty cause talga pag lost ang phone.

[Monseratto]

Do not upgrade your phone to Android Kit Kat 4.4 if you plan to root your note 3. May write issues daw, including downloading t*rrent file to your extSD Card...

[Fix][N9005][ExtSdCard Write Issue][Kitkat 4.4.2][NA6] - Rooted - xda-developers

[zeus17]

Do not upgrade your phone to Android Kit Kat 4.4 if you plan to root your note 3. May write issues daw, including downloading t*rrent file to your extSD Card...

[Fix][N9005][ExtSdCard Write Issue][Kitkat 4.4.2][NA6] - Rooted - xda-developers

not that nagmamagaling pero i checked on the link...

Since kitkat 4.4.2 was released on the Galaxy Note 3, many users were unable to write files to the External SD Card. Below is a simple fix for rooted users on the Galaxy Note 3 N9005 ( International Snapdragon Variant).

and how i understood it,

sa mga nag upgrade to kitkat na note 3,kung di ka rooted e ma eencouter mo ung said issue
kung rooted ka,ito ung possible fix...

or switching to custom kitkat rom

[SiRbossR]

Daming bloatware ng ibaibang android devices. Gusto ko din gawin ito kaso tinatamad na ako at nakuntento na sa basic stuff ng phone. Ang gusto ko lang sa CFW at Root is meron mga apps na kahit manakaw phone mo di nila mabubura at nakaimbed padin sa unit kahit anong factory reset at bago maaccess ung pang palit ng FW need mo maiunlock. In short madedetect mo padin via findmymobile app ng samsung.

Mas okay android ngayon dati pasakit maginstall ng ng CFW during the windows mobile days. Hahahha.

Pashare naman din ng info kung ano pinkaclean na software para sa s3 and s4 at inextend nindamsung ng 6 months warranty ng s3 ko kaya pagkatapos mag CFW na ako.

Sa katangahan ko nga pala naiupgrade ko ng wala sa oras s3 and s4 ko sa 4.3 bago ko maiunlock dahil may bug ung 4.1.2 at 4.2.2 na jelly bean at via code lang sa keypad pwedeng maalis factory unlock ng phone.

Kaya sa mga naka s3 at s4 na hindi pa naguupdate ng firmware wag niyo muna iupdate sa jellybean 4.3, iunlock niyo muna at wala pang solusyon sa 4.3.

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May update na ang phones mo for 4.4 Kitkat

[brainmafia_310]

Sana maimplement ng samsung yung security ng iphone.

Sa office kasi namin ung iphone napagtripan ibahin ang login details. So nung naglock, kahit anong factory reset ang hinahanap na username at password is ung sa acvount nf nagtrip. Nakaregister onlinw at hindi pweseng alisin unless otherwise aalisin ng original owner.

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