Yo I just got a Nexus 7 and it's easily the most advanced mobile technology that I've ever owned. It's pretty sweet but I'm like a caveman with fire here, just poking it to see what it does and hoping that it doesn't hurt me.
Yo I just got a Nexus 7 and it's easily the most advanced mobile technology that I've ever owned. It's pretty sweet but I'm like a caveman with fire here, just poking it to see what it does and hoping that it doesn't hurt me.
ok, so I factory stock rooted my AT&T phone (SG3).
But I want to put cyanogen mod onto it.
can someone baby walk me through this, because i was following a thing and it was wanting me to open a terminal on teh computer and nothing was working and I was so confused.
I looked up stuff and the responses to questions were just like "just do it right"
Where are you looking? There's a thread on XDA specifically about CyanogenMod 10.1.
If you don't have ClockworkMod installed, there's a link to it using Odin in the first post in that thread including links to additional information.
the problem here is that the odin file isn't for my model of G3. Also the list of instructions is just one line like
the problem here is that the odin file isn't for my model of G3. Also the list of instructions is just one line like
"Flash the rom to your sd card"
like...oh ok I'll just do that then.
That's the major thing I hate about the Android custom ROM community. There's so many threads with instructions that are essentially "post the doo-flops into your metadrive and conjugate the verbs"
And all the warnings like "IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS DON'T EVEN BOTHER GOD WHY ARE YOU EVEN TRYING THIS GO BACK TO IPHONE YOU LOSER" just really make you enamoured with the community.
It's the reason why I switched my thinking from "I'll just get a phone and slap a custom ROM onto it to keep up with the latest updates" to "I'll buy the Nexus so I get the updates when Google releases them without having to deal with nerds with superiority complexes."
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
the problem here is that the odin file isn't for my model of G3. Also the list of instructions is just one line like
"Flash the rom to your sd card"
like...oh ok I'll just do that then.
That's the major thing I hate about the Android custom ROM community. There's so many threads with instructions that are essentially "post the doo-flops into your metadrive and conjugate the verbs"
And all the warnings like "IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS DON'T EVEN BOTHER GOD WHY ARE YOU EVEN TRYING THIS GO BACK TO IPHONE YOU LOSER" just really make you enamoured with the community.
It's the reason why I switched my thinking from "I'll just get a phone and slap a custom ROM onto it to keep up with the latest updates" to "I'll buy the Nexus so I get the updates when Google releases them without having to deal with nerds with superiority complexes."
Yeah. Combine that with the bad support other devices get, and it was a pretty easy decision to switch to the N4.
Android high level users are the same as Linux users. They are of the fuck off and find out variety.
What you need to do is trick them.
You don't say, how do I do this.
You say, this is bullshit. I can't flash my rom.
Then they will move heaven and earth to prove you wrong.
I'd suggest checking youtube. They might gloss over explanations, but they're good with seeming what you need to do.
I remember reading something a while back about someone's approach to tech support in Linux. Instead of asking for help in forums asking why they couldn't do something they would instead say "Linux is bullshit, I can't even do X."
They'd then get very detailed responses about exactly how and why it could do what he needed.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
@langly you may need to find the carrier specific gs3 forum on xda to get the right odin file. I forget if they still have carrier specific forums but they did last time I was mucking with XDA.
I stumbled across an awesome app that did everything for me. It cost a buck but you know what, I will pay a fucking dollar to have this shit done for me.
Oh also Naphtali this is what I am doing to hopefully fix my battery issue. I'm still not sure what is causing it.
that's fucked up man, hope it fixes the problem for you. what app did you use?
I've seen a noticible chunk of battery % on my verizon gs3 seems to get eaten up by wakelock a lot, not sure what's causing it. Still manages to get to the end of the day with 50-70% of battery depending on how much I've used it though so I can't complain.
i wrote out a bunch to help with installing custom roms and then realised that the link to the toolkit below seems to have pretty clear instruction for doing some stuff, so my thing just became even messier
spoilered for super long. its mainly exposition though, and trying to avoid oversimplifying like most instructions for this stuff does. theres really not much to it though, and if you do it a few times youll see you just repeat the same few simple steps
anyway it looks like the s3 might be similar to the galaxy nexus which i just got, but which isnt hugely different to the s1 which i had for the past couple of years
the main thing is that you can get this toolkit which seems to do a lot of the work for you, but which i had never seen before until a few weeks ago when i got the nexus
the basic idea is- (this is mainly from memory of using the s1)
the phone can boot into 3 modes. normal, recovery, and download. r & d are usually found by turning on the phone while holding one of the volume keys, or by selecting to reboot into them from the power options in a custom rom. recovery is the main one you would use, as this gives you some system options to play around with, and a custom recovery will add options including installing roms. download mode basically makes the phone a slave to your pc, and is only needed when flashing recovery, or when youve messed something up and you gotta start all over from scratch (expect this to happen, and that flashing a new rom can easily become a lengthy ordeal. although these new toolkits seem like they might take away some of the pain)
so the first thing is to install a custom recovery. im only familiar with clockwordmod recovery
1. flash clockworkmod recovery first. this lets you boot the phone into a system menu kinda thing from which you can flash roms and kernels. you might be able to flash them other ways, such as with odin, but save your time and effort and just get cwm on there because it makes things easier
to flash cwm- run the toolkit, select your phone type, install the drivers (option 1- follow the instructions on the web page), select root/unroot options (option 2), and select an option that includes flashing a custom recovery and root. i would select option 5 "flash recovery, root, busybox+rename restore files via recovery", because apparently busybox is a good thing. ive never used it but i think it allows some linux stuff in future if you ever wanna use it or its needed for something, but otherwise you wont even notice it
follow all the toolkit instructions, including enabling usb debugging on the phone as your first step. it should then be able to reboot your phone as needed, or at least tell you how to do it so it can do what it needs to do
hopefully you will now have cwm installed on your phone. this should only have to be done once ever, and cwm will just stay on the phone until you remove it or something gets messed up, in which case dont stress just repeat this all again
2. now you can reboot into cwm. the toolkit can do this for you (option 22 and then reboot into recovery or whatever) if needed, or you can do it manually which is a good thing to know. shut down the phone then hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds. you should see a system menu, check that it says cwm recovery somewhere and isnt still the default samsung menu
-what we really want here is 'install zip from sd card'
-navigate cwm using the volume buttons and probably the power button
3. to install cyanogen (and this is pretty much the same for any other rom in a zip file). (check instructions for any rom you install, although sometimes they are pretty vague)
-copy the zip files (nightly build and Gapps) to the phones internal sd card, doesnt matter where. do this when the phone is powered on normally
-boot into cwm
-maybe go ahead and make a backup, this might be under advanced options i dunno. otherwise just make sure youve saved whatever you need off your phone, like messages and app data. the usb drives that pop up in windows should remain untouched through all this but go ahead and be paranoid with all that stuff too. but app stuff will basically get wiped
-select 'install zip from sd card'
-navigate to the files you copied. select the cwm file first, flash it, then select and flash the Gapps files
-go back to previous menus and do a data wipe/factory reset. this might be in advanced options. this step can sometimes be skipped when upgrading from a previous version of the same rom and android version, but check instructions. basically if you wont have to wipe all your stuff every time you install a new nightly
-reboot the phone (from the main cwm menu)
it might take a while to reboot at first, so give it a few minutes. if it gets stuck on the boot screen for ages, like 10 minutes or something ridiculous, try going back into cwm and wiping cache and dalvik cache, or installing the rom again, or trying a different rom
once you got this working, install a kernel if you like. they install from zip like a rom, but i think you gotta wipe the cache and dalvik cache afterwards, but you dont have to factory reset or lose any data. check any available instructions on the kernel pages, and that the kernel you use is for the same android version, or at least that there are people using it with cyanogenmod. mismatches can stop the phone from booting but i think you can just flash a new kernel on top
put a kernel on now if you are thinking about it, or even just to see how its done, because if something goes wrong you can just wipe it all and start again now when the phone has already just been wiped and you wont be losing anything
um i think thats it and you should have a new rom
i would recommend leaving the rom files on the phone, so that if the phone ever gets fucked up at any point you can just wipe and install the rom like new
oh yea and i dont think you would need to use odin for anything
its in the toolkit somewhere but i didnt need it for the nexus. did have to use it for the s1 but hopefully not anymore
its a download mode thing so youd probably be using it to go back to stock or if youve basically bricked the phone
actually with the s1 you could use odin to flash new antenna types, which would control call reception and quality, and gps stuff
i dunno if that still applies with these newer phones
Oh also Naphtali this is what I am doing to hopefully fix my battery issue. I'm still not sure what is causing it.
that's fucked up man, hope it fixes the problem for you. what app did you use?
I've seen a noticible chunk of battery % on my verizon gs3 seems to get eaten up by wakelock a lot, not sure what's causing it. Still manages to get to the end of the day with 50-70% of battery depending on how much I've used it though so I can't complain.
I willll tell you when it finishes installing because I have already forgotten
basically I looked up cyanogen mod on google play and several popped up
can someone tell me how to set up QoS on my router (tomato firmware) so that when my roommate decided to torrent something i can actually properly stream video
Android high level users are the same as Linux users. They are of the fuck off and find out variety.
What you need to do is trick them.
You don't say, how do I do this.
You say, this is bullshit. I can't flash my rom.
Then they will move heaven and earth to prove you wrong.
I'd suggest checking youtube. They might gloss over explanations, but they're good with seeming what you need to do.
I remember reading something a while back about someone's approach to tech support in Linux. Instead of asking for help in forums asking why they couldn't do something they would instead say "Linux is bullshit, I can't even do X."
They'd then get very detailed responses about exactly how and why it could do what he needed.
It's a bash.org quote.
The arch Linux wiki and Ubuntu forums are very friendly, even the Linux thread in the tech tavern is a good font of helpfulness.
But yes I agree that the android ROM community needs a kick in the arse.
Android high level users are the same as Linux users. They are of the fuck off and find out variety.
What you need to do is trick them.
You don't say, how do I do this.
You say, this is bullshit. I can't flash my rom.
Then they will move heaven and earth to prove you wrong.
I'd suggest checking youtube. They might gloss over explanations, but they're good with seeming what you need to do.
I remember reading something a while back about someone's approach to tech support in Linux. Instead of asking for help in forums asking why they couldn't do something they would instead say "Linux is bullshit, I can't even do X."
They'd then get very detailed responses about exactly how and why it could do what he needed.
2) my friend showed me this 1 second every day app where you just record 1 second of video each day and it combines it into a video and the result is pretty cool
I've been using Everyday for a couple years now to snap a photo of me. You can set up a push notification to remind you at a set time, and it's got on-screen guides to line up your face, and then you can turn it into a video.
Got my upgrade today. I was leaning towards the Note II until I saw it in person and remembered I have tiny hands. So I went with the S3. I love it so far.
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The second one has its moments, but once you know the "game," it ain't as fun.
No... NO NOT THAT!
the problem here is that the odin file isn't for my model of G3. Also the list of instructions is just one line like
"Flash the rom to your sd card"
like...oh ok I'll just do that then.
That's the major thing I hate about the Android custom ROM community. There's so many threads with instructions that are essentially "post the doo-flops into your metadrive and conjugate the verbs"
And all the warnings like "IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS DON'T EVEN BOTHER GOD WHY ARE YOU EVEN TRYING THIS GO BACK TO IPHONE YOU LOSER" just really make you enamoured with the community.
It's the reason why I switched my thinking from "I'll just get a phone and slap a custom ROM onto it to keep up with the latest updates" to "I'll buy the Nexus so I get the updates when Google releases them without having to deal with nerds with superiority complexes."
Yeah. Combine that with the bad support other devices get, and it was a pretty easy decision to switch to the N4.
I...I hear that works.
What you need to do is trick them.
You don't say, how do I do this.
You say, this is bullshit. I can't flash my rom.
Then they will move heaven and earth to prove you wrong.
I'd suggest checking youtube. They might gloss over explanations, but they're good with seeming what you need to do.
Satans..... hints.....
http://rootzwiki.com/forum/507-galaxy-s-iii-all-variants/
I remember reading something a while back about someone's approach to tech support in Linux. Instead of asking for help in forums asking why they couldn't do something they would instead say "Linux is bullshit, I can't even do X."
They'd then get very detailed responses about exactly how and why it could do what he needed.
that's fucked up man, hope it fixes the problem for you. what app did you use?
I've seen a noticible chunk of battery % on my verizon gs3 seems to get eaten up by wakelock a lot, not sure what's causing it. Still manages to get to the end of the day with 50-70% of battery depending on how much I've used it though so I can't complain.
ah well.. there's still rooting
spoilered for super long. its mainly exposition though, and trying to avoid oversimplifying like most instructions for this stuff does. theres really not much to it though, and if you do it a few times youll see you just repeat the same few simple steps
the main thing is that you can get this toolkit which seems to do a lot of the work for you, but which i had never seen before until a few weeks ago when i got the nexus
the basic idea is- (this is mainly from memory of using the s1)
the phone can boot into 3 modes. normal, recovery, and download. r & d are usually found by turning on the phone while holding one of the volume keys, or by selecting to reboot into them from the power options in a custom rom. recovery is the main one you would use, as this gives you some system options to play around with, and a custom recovery will add options including installing roms. download mode basically makes the phone a slave to your pc, and is only needed when flashing recovery, or when youve messed something up and you gotta start all over from scratch (expect this to happen, and that flashing a new rom can easily become a lengthy ordeal. although these new toolkits seem like they might take away some of the pain)
so the first thing is to install a custom recovery. im only familiar with clockwordmod recovery
1. flash clockworkmod recovery first. this lets you boot the phone into a system menu kinda thing from which you can flash roms and kernels. you might be able to flash them other ways, such as with odin, but save your time and effort and just get cwm on there because it makes things easier
to flash cwm- run the toolkit, select your phone type, install the drivers (option 1- follow the instructions on the web page), select root/unroot options (option 2), and select an option that includes flashing a custom recovery and root. i would select option 5 "flash recovery, root, busybox+rename restore files via recovery", because apparently busybox is a good thing. ive never used it but i think it allows some linux stuff in future if you ever wanna use it or its needed for something, but otherwise you wont even notice it
follow all the toolkit instructions, including enabling usb debugging on the phone as your first step. it should then be able to reboot your phone as needed, or at least tell you how to do it so it can do what it needs to do
hopefully you will now have cwm installed on your phone. this should only have to be done once ever, and cwm will just stay on the phone until you remove it or something gets messed up, in which case dont stress just repeat this all again
2. now you can reboot into cwm. the toolkit can do this for you (option 22 and then reboot into recovery or whatever) if needed, or you can do it manually which is a good thing to know. shut down the phone then hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds. you should see a system menu, check that it says cwm recovery somewhere and isnt still the default samsung menu
-what we really want here is 'install zip from sd card'
-navigate cwm using the volume buttons and probably the power button
3. to install cyanogen (and this is pretty much the same for any other rom in a zip file). (check instructions for any rom you install, although sometimes they are pretty vague)
-copy the zip files (nightly build and Gapps) to the phones internal sd card, doesnt matter where. do this when the phone is powered on normally
-boot into cwm
-maybe go ahead and make a backup, this might be under advanced options i dunno. otherwise just make sure youve saved whatever you need off your phone, like messages and app data. the usb drives that pop up in windows should remain untouched through all this but go ahead and be paranoid with all that stuff too. but app stuff will basically get wiped
-select 'install zip from sd card'
-navigate to the files you copied. select the cwm file first, flash it, then select and flash the Gapps files
-go back to previous menus and do a data wipe/factory reset. this might be in advanced options. this step can sometimes be skipped when upgrading from a previous version of the same rom and android version, but check instructions. basically if you wont have to wipe all your stuff every time you install a new nightly
-reboot the phone (from the main cwm menu)
it might take a while to reboot at first, so give it a few minutes. if it gets stuck on the boot screen for ages, like 10 minutes or something ridiculous, try going back into cwm and wiping cache and dalvik cache, or installing the rom again, or trying a different rom
once you got this working, install a kernel if you like. they install from zip like a rom, but i think you gotta wipe the cache and dalvik cache afterwards, but you dont have to factory reset or lose any data. check any available instructions on the kernel pages, and that the kernel you use is for the same android version, or at least that there are people using it with cyanogenmod. mismatches can stop the phone from booting but i think you can just flash a new kernel on top
put a kernel on now if you are thinking about it, or even just to see how its done, because if something goes wrong you can just wipe it all and start again now when the phone has already just been wiped and you wont be losing anything
um i think thats it and you should have a new rom
i would recommend leaving the rom files on the phone, so that if the phone ever gets fucked up at any point you can just wipe and install the rom like new
its in the toolkit somewhere but i didnt need it for the nexus. did have to use it for the s1 but hopefully not anymore
its a download mode thing so youd probably be using it to go back to stock or if youve basically bricked the phone
actually with the s1 you could use odin to flash new antenna types, which would control call reception and quality, and gps stuff
i dunno if that still applies with these newer phones
I willll tell you when it finishes installing because I have already forgotten
basically I looked up cyanogen mod on google play and several popped up
how apt
mannn we need more bandwidths
It's a bash.org quote.
The arch Linux wiki and Ubuntu forums are very friendly, even the Linux thread in the tech tavern is a good font of helpfulness.
But yes I agree that the android ROM community needs a kick in the arse.
this this is awesome.
That's actually pretty fuckin sweet
http://bash.org/?152037
2) my friend showed me this 1 second every day app where you just record 1 second of video each day and it combines it into a video and the result is pretty cool
I wanna play spaceteam so bad
the 1 second thing is slightly different, it is like, this
The Chrome sync feature is pretty neat.
You know how you can put iPhone apps on the iPad, and hit the button to make it fill the entire page?
How do you downsize it?
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....