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T-Mobile Sensation 4G S-Off and Perma-root

Jul 312011

Over the weekend, the T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G was “cracked” and to everyone’s delight s-off (security off) was achieved. This basically allows for custom kernals and roms to be installed via, you guessed it, a custom recovery.

Here’s how to do it.

Power off your phone and then press volume down and the power button. A white screen (bootloader) will appear. Please note down the h-boot version your Sensation is running. Also note that you have s-on listed at the top of this white screen.
Reboot and let the OS load completely.
Download the Revolutionary application from revolutionary.io. You will be prompted to enter some information including a serial key and the information from your bootloader screen in the earlier step. Keep this page open!
Read the short description of what Revolutionary is on their wiki.
Download and install the correct HTC drivers from their wiki.
Extract and run the Revolutionary.exe file as administrator (assuming you are on Windows 7).
Plug your phone into your computer. The Revolutionary application should now detect your phone and will provide you with a unique serial key. Copy this serial key down by right clicking, selecting mark, then right clicking again.
Go back to the Revolutionary.io website and enter in your serial key. You will be provided with a unqiue beta key. Copy this beta key and enter/paste it into the Revolutionary application.
Your phone will be temp rooted and it will reboot into another white screen, which will be the fastboot screen.
Let the application perform some tasks and it will reboot the white screen at least once. On the second load, you should see Revolutionary on the first line and s-off will be shown on the second line.
The application will now ask if you wish to flash a custom clockworkmod recovery. By all means select yes. If you do not get this option, do not worry and just follow the steps in the next section.
Now if you were prompted for recovery flashing, let it finish and then load the root zip found on the Revolutionary wiki. This will perma-root your device if you are on the stock rom.
The last step is to find a rom to try. At the moment, InsertCoin and Virtuous Sensation seem to have the most development. These roms work on T-Mobile US Sensation 4Gs, so wifi calling is included. The kernals have been OC’d as well, nice touch.

Flashing Clockworkmod recovery manually

In case the Revolutionary application did not prompt you for recovery flash, here’s how to do it manually. You must have adb installed and working.

Hold down volume – and power and boot into your bootlooader. Select fastboot and then plug your USB cable in. The screen should say fastboot USB now.

Download this CWM 4.0.1.4 recovery image for the Sensation (Pyramid).
Open up a command prompt to your tools directory of adb.
Issue the command: fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-pyramid-fixed.img
It should show two lines saying sending and successfully flashed.
Power down and then hold volume – and power. Selection recovery from the menu and you should be greeted with a blue CWM menu.

*Update* – Clockworkmod recovery 4.0.1.5 is now available via Rom Manager. Download the app from the market and hit the recovery flash option and you are good to go!

T-Mobile G2x Official Gingerbread is out!

Fixes, G2x, Kernels, Roms, Root, Tmobile No Responses »

Jul 212011

The official LG Gingerbread update is finally out for the LG/T-Mobile G2x! You will need to grab the LG Mobile Software updater. Please note that this will break any root access you already have.

So in typical DroidHype fashion, here is a link to grab a ClockworkMod flashable pre-rooted zip of the new 2.3.3 update.

Good job LG and T-Mobile for finally pushing this out!

Via [XDA]

*Update* – this appears to be LG’s release and not an official T-Mobile release. Once T-Mobile finalizes their testing, this will get signed and the over-the-air (OTA) will be sent out. Either way, this is good in LG’s eyes which means it should be good for most!

*Update* – LG’s release is indeed the same as the T-Mobile release. Flash away folks!

Flash Xionia Recovery on the LG Optimus V

Hacks, Kernels, Optimus V, Roms, Root, Virgin Mobile 4 Responses »

Jun 162011

The LG Optimus V on the Virgin Mobile network is by far one of the best values in Android smartphone computing. Not only is the Optimus V an excellent entry/intermediate device, it’s also on one of the nation’s cheapest smartphone plans starting at $25/month.

Like it’s siblings, the Optimus V is very welcoming to custom roms and kernels. To get started, you’ll need to load a custom recovery so you can flash your desired rom and/or kernel.

The Xionia recovery ported over to the Optimus V is probably the most accepted and supported recovery at the moment. Just about every rom can be flashed using this recovery. To get started on your Optimus V, follow these steps:

Note: You must be rooted first. If you aren’t, look up the Gingerbreak app. The following steps assume you have adb working correctly and you have the correct drivers loaded on your computer.

Download the recovery zip:

Xionia Custom Recovery for LG Optimus V (3.9 MiB, 76 hits)
You do not have permission to download this file.

There should be two files in the .zip file, flash_image and xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin.img. Extract the contents to the root of your /sdcard.
Open up a command prompt, we’ll be using adb to flash the recovery.
Connect a micro usb cable from your Optimus V to your computer. Find the Superuser app in your app tray and open it. On your command prompt, Type “adb shell” and then type “su”. Immediately check your Superuser app, it should prompt you to allow access. Select remember and allow the access.
Type “mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /system /system“
Type “cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image“
Type “chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image“
Type “mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /system /system“
Type “flash_image recovery /sdcard/xionia_cwma_12518.4_virgin.img“
You can now issue the command “reboot recovery“, but I prefer to power down and manually enter recovery on the first try.
Power down the device. Then press and hold volume down + home + power. You can let go once the LG boot image comes up.

If you see the blue lettered Xionia recovery, then you have installed your recovery correctly. First order of business is to make a nandroid backup under the backup and restore menu. Use the up/down buttons to navigate and the camera button to select. The back button will bring you back to the previous screen if you get lost.

Now go download a rom or kernel and try it out!

Root your T-mobile G2x

G2x, Root, Tmobile 2 Responses »

Apr 202011

The T-mobile G2x is now available in stores as of today. Some people have already received it if ordered via online sales from a few days back. This thing is a pure beast of a phone, let’s root it.

I’m usually not too fond of one click root methods, but this really is the easiest way to do it on this brand new handset.

This assumes you have ADB already installed and working. The download links will require you to be a registered user on this site.

~~Download and install the LG drivers~~. LG has released the G2x drivers over at their site. Download and install those instead.
Enable USB debugging under Settings-Applications-Development on your G2x.
Download and run Super One Click (v1.8).
Hit the Root button and off you go.

[Update 4/22/2011] Added link to official LG drivers for the G2x.

Cyanogenmod 7 Nightly adds battery percentage

Droid, G2, Gtablet, Incredible, News, Nexus One, Roms, Root, Tmobile, Viewsonic No Responses »

Mar 022011

The latest Cyanogenmod (CM) 7 Nightlies have added a few notable updates to the latest builds. One of the more requested ones (at least for me) is the battery percentage in the status bar. This was available in CM6, but CM7 had some previous problems in getting this done, but that has been overcome with the latest builds.

The new battery percentage is slightly different in that the percentage isn’t inside the battery icon. The new style has the numbering to the left of a small battery bar.

To update to CM7, grab it from the CM site or if you are a premium Rom Manager user you can download it directly from the app.

Fix the Viewsonic G-tablet wake up lag

Fixes, Gtablet, Kernels, Roms, Root, Viewsonic No Responses »

Jan 132011

One of the annoying problems that plagued the Viewsonic G-tablet was the awful wake up lag that would creep up randomly. Once the G-tablet (Gtab) went to sleep, it would downclock the CPU only to keep it at low speeds even upon wake. So one minute you are cruising from app to app, the next minute everything is crawling.

This was an issue in the stock kernel, but since Viewsonic released the source, the wonderful devs over at XDA have managed to fix the problem with their custom work.

The easiest way to fix this would be to root your Gtab and install either TnT Lite or Vegan. The kernels have been patched in these latest builds and I can confirm using Vegan that the wake up lag is gone for good. You can of course just load a custom kernel, which you can find over in the XDA Gtab Dev forum.

New custom kernels enable multi-touch for the Incredible

Droid, Incredible, Kernels, Roms, Root No Responses »

Dec 092010

There are a few new custom kernels available now for the Droid Incredible that will enable multi-touch. If you are into gaming and emulators, multi-touch can be enabled to allow 2-5 simultaneous presses.

My current favorite is chad0989′s Incredikernel. You can also try HeyItsLou’s version or invisiblek’s version. Just keep in mind that some are for Sense roms and some are for AOSP based roms. They’re all in the update.zip format for easy flashing, just clear cache beforehand in your recovery and you are good to go.

Rooting the Viewsonic Gtablet

Gtablet, Hacks, Roms, Root, Viewsonic 5 Responses »

Dec 012010

Viewsonic recently released the Gtablet to the masses at the $399 pricepoint. With a dual core Tegra cpu, 512MB of ram and 10″ of screen real estate, this tablet has a lot going for it. However, right out of the box it is probably by far the worse OS and/or UI I have ever used. If this tablet was given to me as a gift with no option to change the stock OS, I would try and re-gift it. It is just that bad and then some.

So what’s so great about this tablet then? Custom roms. There’s nothing locking this system down, so there are already a few roms available that really improve the functionality of this tablet. Trust me, the difference is night and day and all kudos go to the folks on XDA Developers for really pushing this tablet forward.

Let’s get started shall we?

Flashing kernels should be standard

Droid, Hacks, Incredible, Kernels, Roms, Root No Responses »

Nov 162010

After being on a Droid X for about month, I felt something missing. Only after I went back to a Droid Incredible today did I realize it was the ability to flash kernels. I happily loaded up KingKlick’s BFS#5. With overclocking speeds built in, interactive governor, loads of speed increments, undervolting and a slew more options, it’s a phone nerds best friend. This is what I’ve been missing and it’s a damn shame this kind “openness” is disappearing it seems.

[Warning] Droid Incredible OTA update stops Unrevoked root method

Droid, Incredible, News, Roms, Root No Responses »

Nov 162010

If you are thinking about rooting your Droid Incredible, do not install the latest over the air (OTA) update. Reports are showing it stops the Unrevoked rooting method.

You can opt to root first, then install a custom rom that has the OTA update incorporated if you are itching to be updated.

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