Hi everyone,
This is my first post on the forum. The post might get lengthy but I'm going to do my best to shorten it. The attempted short version:
I got my Rezound in March coming from the original Droid 1 from Motorola. My 2 years were up and I wanted a 4G phone. After doing my research on what I wanted, the Rezound and all it offered seemed like the best deal. Phone's been nothing short of amazing but during the beginning of Summer through August I heard ICS was dropping and each week I anxiously awaited it to come to my phone. I've checked for the update on my phone each week yet I still hold at Android Version 2.3.4, HTC Sense 3.5.
That being said, I was trying to hold off on rooting my phone until after I had it a year, but if I'm not getting updates correctly, I figure I do it myself. I followed the HTC Dev directions to unlock bootloader, but even they were a bit vague at points. Doing a search, I found Scotty's amazing guides:
scottys-noob-friendly-root-guide-start-finish
and
htc-rezound-all-things-root-guide-updated-2-12-2012
*EDIT* New to forums can't post links, so I just abbreviated the names above.
Unfortunately I still got stuck at a few points and I reached out to him via PM. Scotty was kind enough to reply back but let me know it'd be better to post it on the forum so he could not only respond to me, but others could see it as well. I'm reposting my questions to him and my answers, trimming as much of what would be redundant out. Afterwards, I'm going to counter back with more questions. I'm determined to do this and feel comfortable through and through. Thank you all for your patience reading this and on with the show:
This is my first post on the forum. The post might get lengthy but I'm going to do my best to shorten it. The attempted short version:
I got my Rezound in March coming from the original Droid 1 from Motorola. My 2 years were up and I wanted a 4G phone. After doing my research on what I wanted, the Rezound and all it offered seemed like the best deal. Phone's been nothing short of amazing but during the beginning of Summer through August I heard ICS was dropping and each week I anxiously awaited it to come to my phone. I've checked for the update on my phone each week yet I still hold at Android Version 2.3.4, HTC Sense 3.5.
That being said, I was trying to hold off on rooting my phone until after I had it a year, but if I'm not getting updates correctly, I figure I do it myself. I followed the HTC Dev directions to unlock bootloader, but even they were a bit vague at points. Doing a search, I found Scotty's amazing guides:
scottys-noob-friendly-root-guide-start-finish
and
htc-rezound-all-things-root-guide-updated-2-12-2012
*EDIT* New to forums can't post links, so I just abbreviated the names above.
Unfortunately I still got stuck at a few points and I reached out to him via PM. Scotty was kind enough to reply back but let me know it'd be better to post it on the forum so he could not only respond to me, but others could see it as well. I'm reposting my questions to him and my answers, trimming as much of what would be redundant out. Afterwards, I'm going to counter back with more questions. I'm determined to do this and feel comfortable through and through. Thank you all for your patience reading this and on with the show:
scotty85 said:Bohlareon said:<Edited intro to Scotty and everything mentioned in my initial above post>
I took your advice and didn't flash the boot image, but did the temporary recovery with the "recovery.img" image. It's where I get to #3 in your guide that I'm kind of stumped. I know it was a bit lengthy but I wanted to lay out my situation before hitting you with questions, so here they are:
1 - Is it possible to root my stock ROM, just to have it rooted and remove all the bloatware? yes. flashing superSU roots your stock rom. you can freeze or delete bloat,and modify other system files that you would not normally have access to
What's the recommendation for flashing superSU? The noob friendly guide in Step 3, I got to backing up my stock unrooted phone, but not quite sure where or what to flash superSU with. I'd like to root my phone and clean it up as my own, then back it up as how I want it before applying new ROMs etc.
2 - Does it mean I won't receive ICS if I still continue to wait for it? you should have allready recieved it. the offical ICS update was to build number 3.14.605.12. we have had a second update,since then,taking ICS to build number 4.03.605.2,wich also added "world phone"(gsm) capabilities
It bums me out that I haven't gotten it pushed out to me yet when folks like Scotty have not only got it, but have had it updated. Is there something I'm not doing right with my phone? Is going through the phone for the update not advised? Can Verizon do anything to push out the update from their store, etc?
3 - Does installing a different ROM that's already Rooted "root" my phone? yup.
4 - S-OFF and Rooted are synonymous, correct? not really. s-off just means that the secure flag is off,disabling the phone from doing security checks that would normally:
-prevent the install of files not signed by htc
-prevent various partitions from being modified(example,install a custom recovery or splash screen)
-flash older software build numbers(you can normally only flash the same software youre on,or newer)
being rooted simply means having access to system files that are normally inaccessible. phones can be rooted,but s-on,or s-off and not rooted.
The instructions thereafter make me very cautious about pulling the trigger on any of this until I get a little more explanation.
I looked at a couple other posts of yours and you recommended NEWTs. When I found it, there's like 6 different things to download, I'm looking to download the most current ICS image, is NeWts-OnE-XxX-S4-RC3-Signed- it? im not sure about this. its actually been quite some time since ive run newts rom. there are roms to chose from based on the most current software(4.03.605.2) but youll need the firmware as well to have global capabilities.
It looks I need to get my stuff updated before proceeding forth, any help you guys/gals can provide to get me up to par would be greatly appreciated.