Root guess what i have?

[ocnbrze]

and guess what i will be doing either tonight or tomorrow? you only have three guesses and if you get them wrong.........well lets just say it will not be pretty

 

[dustwun77]

Looky looky! OCN is in the house!

 

[ocnbrze]

Hell yes!!!!!!! but you did not guess LOL

but as of right now i'm only in the doorway to the house you speak of. i just got the phone and it is not rooted yet. charging it now and gonna root it later tonight or tomorrow. then will i have fully arrived

 

[ocnbrze]

and it looks like my phone has hboot 1.12! s-off here i come!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rxpert83]

and it looks like my phone has hboot 1.12! S-off here i come!!!!!!!!!!!

awesome!! Glad to have you here man!


If I am allowed to make some ROM suggestions for you...

Sense-Viper4G or MeanROM

AOSP-Decks CM10 builds from IRC (should have nightly cm builds in about a week)

 

[ocnbrze]

thanx rx i have not had any time to do research on what is out there yet as far as roms go. i will definitely look into those for sure.

 

[argedion]

WELCOME BROTHER

I am partial to the team d3rps SuperLTE ROM Myself. Its a very stable ROM. This is going to start shaping up as a reunion room from the OG Days

I had the phone rooted with s-off an hour after getting it. (Was plugged in getting charged while I did the dirty deed )

 

[Granite1]

My guess was you got an iPhone 4S, guess I was wrong.

If you need help with the S-OFF, you know how to get a hold of us.

I will make a suggestion right off the bat. Get an Ubuntu 12.04 live CD or USB ready before you begin, trust me.

I'm in Maryland this weekend putting a roof on my buddies house, so if you get stuck, hit me up on gtalk and I'll respond as soon as I can. Good luck Brother!!

 

[dustwun77]

Check out MeanRom and Fresh! Lol.
After Regaw and lazy panda, of course.

 

[argedion]

My guess was you got an iPhone 4S, guess I was wrong.

NOOOOOOOOooooo THE HORROR OF IT is TO much to BEAR

 

[jackgibbs]

I am waiting with great anticipation for jellybean to be an acceptable daily for me

 

[Rxpert83]

Its spoiled me. When I flash a sense based ROM now they feel much slower.

Only real issues are video cam. SMS/MMS/WIFI/DATA/Calls/Google now all work 100% for me.

Camera takes pictures but switching between some of the different modes can FC

 

[dustwun77]

I haven't had any luck with it 2 times I flashed it. I'll wait till it is ready to go. been a pain in the neck getting back to a backup off of it too.

Wish it would work for me, like to see what the hoopla is.

 

[ocnbrze]

what is your guys opinion on recoveries? is twrp the only one out there? is there a better one? i'm still a little gun shy with twrp.

 

[dustwun77]

I understand that for sure. I think there is a CWM one out there but i haven't tried it.

i understand that TWRP 2.2.1 is the latest. I have used it quite often with good result. I installed it with goo manager, I have read where some folk have had issues with their server, I think, lately. you can flash it with a zip from the site as well.

I think Regaw's method puts it on as part of the process now, still. It did when I used it. Used Goo to upgrade.

I have had a few weird things happen using TWRP that I can not explain or definitely attribute to the recovery, but I do use it and like it as well.

 

[Rxpert83]

Theres CWM but TWRP is the recovery of choice with the LTEVO. It doesn't have any of the issues the OG had

 

[kbp08tls]

Last I checked CWM was pretty much abandoned in favor of twrp. There was an issue with cwm corrupting the /misc partition iirc. That said I've used twrp sunce day one and never had an issue with it.

 

[argedion]

what is your guys opinion on recoveries? is twrp the only one out there? is there a better one? i'm still a little gun shy with twrp.

understandable bro after the hell you suffered. This is a very stable recovery, praying never hurts

Your in safe hands bro these guys are the bomb as you very well know

 

[EarlyMon]

Welcome aboard!

 

[ocnbrze]

ok regaw done!!!!! i did my first nandroid backup with twrp ( i was nervous to be hinest with you) and all is well. i'm about to flash the omj stock rom now so that i can use lazy panda later on. also downloading unbuntu now, but my internet speeds is slow right now. half way done downloading so i'll report back when all is said and done.

anything else you guys can suggest to get me up to speed with el tevo would be greatly appreciated.

 

[EarlyMon]

Stay stock for LazyPanda, it's sensitive to build.prop changes. Fresh is stock so ok.

I have copy / past Linux instructions in our LazyPanda thread, post 183 I think, or post 1266 at XDA.

Check your twrp to make sure that it's up to date.

Once you get s-off, update your bootloader to LazyPanda 1.12.2222. You can do that with the third download listed at the end of the LazyPanda download page, or by following the sticky guide to get the same thing from Regaw without the red text on the startup screen. Either is a fastboot install from the external sd card.

I prefer Viper4G with a minfree memory mod (as shown in our Viper4G thread). That's a 1.22.651.3 rom as opposed to 1.13.651.1, and the sticky guide will point to the firmware update needed.

MeanRom is naturally pretty popular as well.

Rxpert83 and others are up to speed on CM10, too soon for me though.

 

[Rxpert83]

I would highly suggest the bootloader customizer.

S-ON and LOCKED baby :smokingsomb:

 

[EarlyMon]

While I not only prefer that it says s-off, but also that I have done something wrong.

 

[ocnbrze]

yeah i kind of want full s-off as well.

 

[Rxpert83]

yeah i kind of want full s-off as well.

Just for clarity, it is still full S-off, it just makes the bootloader show S-on and locked.