No offense to anyone here, but I cant even fiddle with his phone for more than 30 seconds before I get frustrated by it's sluggishness and just hand it back to him. It's phones like that that prevented me from buying an Android phone for so long, but now I have the Evo and love it.
So, what can I do to help him out here? It's fully updated. Mostly I'd want to look into some sort of overclock and removing the sprint bloatware. Nothing fancy, just something to make it more functional.
First and foremost you need to root the phone using universal androot or z4 one click root.
Get root explorer to remove the bloatware. Once it is installed open up root explorer navigate to data/FLEX and remove bloatware.
Then you can start speeding up the phone using sysctl config app in the market. We have a thread with recommended settings floating around here somewhere. VM Heap tool and BladeBuddy to turn off stagefright, you can also use apps like SD speed increase to gain a lil speed from your sd card. After doing all of that and dialing the settings in the phone should run like a dream.
Just don't brick it. We will not take liability in the case that the phone no longer functions properly or if the battery blows up or any thing that happens from modifying the phone.
Now before you go buck wild with your dad's phone please read more about rooting and sysctl but first question is, cricket or sprint?
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Mattix724 said:
but first question is, cricket or sprint?
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patass said:
removing the SPRINT bloatware.
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Thanks fate guess I missed that. Can't do as much as the cricket Zio.
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I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.
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I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.
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Please tell me you arent trying to push the roms / themes from here on XDA. They are cricket images and wont work on sprint.
Aside from that, you may need to get someone with a working sprint zio and try to perform a nand backup from a fresh hard reset that you can hopefully restore. I dont even know if CWM recovery will work for sprint but read the thread here and give it a shot to see if it boots.
My Zio is a cricket its NOT a Sprint...
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My Zio is a cricket its NOT a Sprint...
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I dont think there are any stock 1.6 img files anywhere around here. Just out of curiosity why the hell would you want the stock 1.6 img anyway??
I have 1.6 images
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But I promise you if it's cricket, flash the openzio rom once spz includes the kernel.
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OK, so the prob with this Zio is the last owner attempted to do the 2.2 over the air update and it failed, causing it to not boot right, then a Cricket Rep. Reloaded the OS and now it won't go passed the green droid at original start screen. Sure hope that kernel arrives soon. Thanks for all the help I appreciate it!
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Have you tried erasing everything in fastboot and flashing imgs in fastboot?
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Everything is off it, I assume since the OS was reloaded it has no root, this is my first time with a difficult phone too.I have ODIN if someone would be willing to walk me through that process I'd be VERY MUCH appreciative, it's possible I've over complicated this in my head, if it has no root am I skrewed? PC won't recognize it in usb, and I'm new to adb so getting files to it is tricky for a rookie like me ={
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Scrapped that zio...even ODIN didn't help...trading that zio and this LG for an out the box brand new Droid Incredible...coming completely set up rooted,backed up,and with a tested custom ROM optimized for speed and performance! Thanks to all the awesome ppl who helped me try and get that Zio going ^_^
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Good luck with the new phone... sorry that the Zio is too complicated to use, unfortunately we only have a few devs around here... the incredible has plenty of support and everything will be easy. If you have trouble with that phone it will be user error.
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Well I am currently running Froyo 2.2 rooted on my Captivate. I have no internet at home so I am reduced to tethering via usb. What is a cheap way to do this? I have tried renameing/deleteing the tetheringmanager but didnt work.
Even links to forums that could help me would be appreciated, and I wont mind using a rom or something else as long as its free lol
Thanks for the help
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Flash a rom. They all have it enabled by going around at&t
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Any good ones that you have tried?
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Loaded question
I have flashed nearly everyone available. They are all good in their own right. Telling you one is best or better is mostly opinion. Depends on what you are looking for especially in appearance. The one I would avoid for a first timer is cm7, which is what I am running but is not as easy to flash.
Look at captivate development. Take a look at the Roms available.
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Thanks for the info! And what I am mostly looking for is usability and tethering lol it could look beautiful but if it lags, cant support flash 10.1, and you can't barely do anything with it besides call and text then it ain't for me lol
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Abd another reason I ask cause since I don't have internet..i brick I screwed..
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You are right and I would not flash without internet.
Maybe someone can provide a safer option
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That is what I am thinking..
Plus I have yet to try flashing because of having no internet.
If I could find possibly someone that knows how to change APK files and change the file tetheringmanager114.apk and just install it so it allows it to use the mobile AP and usb tethering no problem but I have yet to find it or a forum with an idea how to.
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I want this thing to run what it should be able to run. Is root even worth it on the verizon tab? Seems no one is supporting it. Everything is either wifi our gsm.
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You need Honeycomb.
But there I is no honeycomb love for the verizon tab is there? And from what I have read, rooting a verizon tab is asking for trouble!
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But there I is no honeycomb love for the verizon tab is there? And from what I have read, rooting a verizon tab is asking for trouble!
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I think rooting the verizon tab is only sketchy if start messing with updates, roms, etc. I rooted mine the day I got it several months ago and loaded the voodoo plus kernel to overclock to 1.4ghz. Other than an issue that popped up with the Lookout app and finally getting the EC02 update notification to stop with a build.prop edit, it's been as close to perfect for me as I expect from a piece of tech and runs much better than those first few hours I used it prior to rooting. The main reason I wanted to root almost immediately was so I could restore my Titanium Backup apps from my Evo so I would keep all my app settings and scores.
I considered flashing one of the few VZW tab roms available or unrooting to install the EC02 update, but I figure it's better to leave good enough alone.
Hey guys I've been gone a while and I've decided that I love my Zio still but I hate Sprint's service. So I was looking into flashing my phone over to Cricket that way I can have the Rom support from Openzio and cwm. I do not have a whole lot of time I've been without my phone for over a month now and would really like to get some idea of where to start. Everything I've found so far is either a dead end or someone else that has no clue what they are doing. Thanks in advance guys look forward to talking again soon.
I could be (and probably am) wrong, but I would think you could just flash the 2.2.1 stock cricKet images.
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I could be (and probably am) wrong, but I would think you could just flash the 2.2.1 stock cricKet images.
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Very wrong. The two devices are not the same.
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Very wrong. The two devices are not the same.
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Thought so. Heh. Looks like the only way you're getting your Sprint ZIO on cricKet is to take it in to cricKet and have it flashed over (which costs about $75).
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That's what I was hoping to avoid, I was hoping I could do the flashing myself and save the cost but hopefully I can talk the Cricket guy into hooking me up with a good deal he usually does. Thanks!
Hi i know that the cricket stores here in kc are running a special "trade any competers phone port your number and recieve there android phone free" that was how i received my zio from trade in of my mt3g. Only payed 55 for first month and recieved everything else free. Love the phone hate the keyboard on it lol. Good luck.
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Hello community. Long story short, I'm ONLY familiar with HTC. A customer came into my store with a bionic that was rooted, but SMS was messed up. I was on my way out for the day and a fellow rep showed me this guys bionic. I treated it like any other rooted device and rather than wasting time (I was in a hurry to leave) I just downloaded and flashed a theme. I could not figure out what rom he had, so i took a guess. I assumed if it didn't work, I could just boot into recovery and restore or just flash a different rom if need be... Well the phone hangs in its new boot screen and it appears that CWR is gone. It just has the stock recovery. I have no other info about what software was on it or anything. Being an HTC person, Im just lost! Any help is more that appreciated! Thanks
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Do you happen to be a sales rep?
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All is good and fixed. Nevermind
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Just got a notification to update to ZV8 on my GVolted revo. Anyone else seen this or know what is updating? I cancelled it until I found out more about it. Verizon's Revolution support site only mentions zv7.
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Yup, just got the notice. Am on GV2.0 also.
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I was tempted to let the update go through to see what it did, but I'm currently driving from San Francisco to yuma, AZ and need my phone for navigation/music purposes and didn't want to kill my phone for the rest of my trip if something went wrong.
I am curious to know what it does though, if anyone's brave enough to risk losing root, or updates by accident
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LG revo update
Found this:
support.verizonwireless.com/pdf/system_update/revolution.pdf
any way to stop besides deferring?
Don't update unless you put stock recovery back on other wise it will fail then you are going to see if you can get root again hopefully, one of the newer exploits for the esteem/spectrum might help with this.
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Dl fails and reboots into CM screen
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I got the same push but it crashed my phone...
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I didnt get a notification for it so i checked manually and it was there. Going to put stock recovery back on phone and update later. The wife is updating her non rooted revo now. I will report back with differences that i notice.
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I had heard somewhere that lg had a fix for the reboot issue, could this be it?
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Wifes phone updated and radio, kernal, build #, and sw version changed. It just said phone enhancements so im not sure what yet...lol. Tried mine for the hell of it and downloaded fine but wouldnt install due to clockwork, so i just rebooted and all is same as it was. Will switch recoveries later and try again.
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Edit: kernal did not change but it is android 2.3.6 now
So now with this new update they can remotely get into your phone and troubleshoot it. Little creepy there lol. I'm only on my first replacement now when I call get will want to troubleshoot the thing.
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So now with this new update they can remotely get into your phone and troubleshoot it. Little creepy there lol. I'm only on my first replacement now when I call get will want to troubleshoot the thing.
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HA.. that is creepy. I am sure MT will find a way to block that on next GingerVolt.
Cant seem to get stock recovery back on here. I followed steps and it said it was good to go but when update tries to install it goes back to clockwork. Any help would be cool. Thanks
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Goes to do it but cant find files...then says its unrooted and stock recovery and then reboots but no changes. Any thoughts and or help. Thanks in advance
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I am updating now and will check it all out!
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Cant seem to get stock recovery back on here. I followed steps and it said it was good to go but when update tries to install it goes back to clockwork. Any help would be cool. Thanks
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there was a step that i the update failed you should pull the battery
Don't update unless you want to lose root lol.
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Thanks MT. I look forward to seeing what you can do with this update. You are a rock star!
Here's an article I found on the update
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...g-soon-brings-verizon-remote-diagnostic-tool/
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