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Root [MetroPCS & T-Mobile] seeking t-mob & pcs kernel

xclusive36

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Hey guys, i'm looking for a T-mobile & Metro pcs recovery kernel or recovery image. I'm looking to port TWRP recovery from Virgin Mobile over to this side of this phone.

I'd prefer a fresh recovery.img so I can extract the zimage or just a zimage by it's self would be great. Also I would love a couple of testers once it's been ported.

I've noticed a few of you guys are coming over to the virgin mobile sub forum and installing our recoveries with success but once you install a rom, some errors pop up. Its due to incompatible kernels. If I can get the correct ones from you guys, i'll be able to set you up. You'll have a good recovery of your own.

Just fyi, I haven't really checked out your sub forum so i'm not sure where you guys stand. I see you have a custom kernel and a few roms. No custom roms from what I can tell. all just stock based.. We have one custom rom that's in alpha stage. CM10. The rest are stock based. One custom kernel as well. I'm working on the device tree for cm10 now. I haven't posted it yet. It's getting close to being finished. I don't want to post a device tree that doesn't compile to a booting rom. Shouldn't be much longer though. Maybe a week til it's finished. The rom it's self has issues.

It also looks like GameTheory has moved on. I'll ask him to confirm. I see all of his previous posts are now just "delete".. Sounds like a Cyberman from Dr. Who.

Thank you.

edit: Yeah, I just talked to him. he's moved on.
 
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It also looks like GameTheory has moved on. I'll ask him to confirm. I see all of his previous posts are now just "delete".. Sounds like a Cyberman from Dr. Who.

edit: Yeah, I just talked to him. he's moved on.

I have not moved on. The posts that were deleted were in a testing thread and were no longer needed.

At the bottom of your post it says that you talked to me. Well it wasn't me you talked to.
 
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Volume down + power does the whole factory reset thing like it's always been doing. I didn't test it out, but I think it should boot into recovery after doing the factory reset like with CWM, but I'm not sure about it and I can't assume without someone actually testing it out.. And just so you don't ask, volume up+power does absolutely nothing but turn it on.
 
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Here's a temporary link if anyone else wants to try it.
http://dl.litestep.com/twrp_bumped.img

roadkill42, sorry I didn't respond. i've been having internet issues all day.

To flash, just download and install flashify (for root users) from google play and flash with it. Make a backup of your current recovery first. Your phone will need to be rooted.
 
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