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if you have this rom and want to update to m150, follow this guide by monkeytools
Hello Commando C771 users,

"What if I told you-
that there was a new (updated) ROM for your device?"

Well, if the above meme does not give it away already, then the following will. I have been working on a ROM for the Commando, and it is ready for release. This "RedPill ROM" is unlike any other. It is packed with features, including:

• Pre-installed BusyBox and SuperUser.
• de-bloated - no trace of Verizon or any other 'less than useful' apps
• Pre-installed "Tools Update"
• A new slightly larger red battery icon that shows battery capacity in increments of 1, unlike the stock ROM, which shows in increments of 5.
• An awesome red theme to all functioning first-party system apps
• A cool pre-installed matrix background
• A boot animation with binaries to support the "bootanimation.zip" type file
• A friendly install script with a system space checker to make sure that it installed properly.
• A boot image that not only is "unlocked", but has adb enabled by default. From when you first start the phone to when or if you turn it off, adb will be there with you!*
• (Updated) A more direct shutdown menu with options to go into either reboot, hot boot, bootloader(NEW), recovery, or shutdown.
• Much faster due to the removal of system apps.
• (NEW) COMPLETE GPS Support
• (NEW) Removed the top "shutdown method" text
• (Updated) The boot animation is now in sync more with the video and audio.

Instructions to install:

1. Use TB to backup your user apps and data and system data
2. Download the ROM and put it on your SD card
3. Reboot into GNM recovery
4. Make a Nandroid backup if you have not already
5. Perform a data wipe (factory reset option). It is necessary now. Sorry ladies and Gents
6. Go back to the main menu and then select flash zip menu->install from SD card
7. Navigate to the zip file
8. Install and make sure that it installed**
9. Reboot and enjoy the ROM!

If your GPS does not work, a way to get it to work is to install a stock version of your ROM, and then install the RedPill ROM on top of the original ROM.

"Remember. I'm only offering you the [ROM], nothing more." I am not responsible for what may happen on your phone due to your actions. However, I can offer support and answer questions.

And press thanks/like/donate? if you like it!

Enjoy the ROM!

Thanks to:
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Monkeytools for letting me base this ROM off of his, allowing me to use his android policy file, allowing me to modify his boot.img file, allowing me to use parts of his updater-script file, and alpha/beta testing the ROM. THANK YOU GOOD SIR!
Link to his work: http://androidforums.com/commando-a...asio-blues-themed-rom-updated-5-5-2013-a.html
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Also thank you to Ruyen for his/her feedback.
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Whoever made that generic bootanimation binary
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Whoever made GIMP/BIMP. Those programs are SO HELPFUL!
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*I can not guarantee that the adb service will be active if you are running a kernel below M130 and tried to boot with nothing in the system partition. Be very careful! You can turn it off in settings
**To make sure that it installed, just read the text that tells you how much space was used. If it is a small number (I.E. 4, 5, 1 MB) then it did NOT install and you should restore your Nandroid backup.

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DOWNLOAD: Click Here. Commando->Roms
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If you have any problems, please let me know by replying or sending me a pm or replying.

Please understand that although this is all free, some donation for my time would be greatly appreciated as I am going to Wentworth Institute of Technology and already know that I will be having a lot of student loans...

PayPal Donation to Willster419

Thanks and enjoy!!!1!

 

If you want just the theme, I have made that as well. It is still red, but does not have the tools update, boot animation, etc.
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Flash these at your own risk
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No need to do a factory reset with both of these files, so just flash and install!
The theme only is about 26 MB in space, but size difference may very depending on what is currently on your device. The ROM without the ROM can take up as little as the theme only, or as much as (about) 54 MB. It depends on how much space you have. It makes more since when you download and install it. If, and most likely when, you don't have the required space it will reboot before it can "false-install" and boot-loop your device.
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DOWNLOAD (OLD THEME): All files are here on my google drive.
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I am also including all the png files that I made red. If you want to make a custom rom, here are all the png files you need to change. See download link above

 

The Shutdown menu options (V1)

The browser has a red voice search box

A red Power Control. YES that is fox news and NO I am not fox news reader.

Red Dialer

Some red home screen widgets

The red XT9 keyboard

A red notification bar

Some custom system apps from the pre-installed tools update. also shows the red settings icon

There be pictures

 

yes it does. I made an entire thread explaining the binaries and the "bootanimation.zip" file. you can read it here:
http://androidforums.com/commando-all-things-root/731589-official-bootanimation-zip-thread.html