Tag: root

  • Root Droid X with Ice Cream Sandwich

    Root Droid X with Ice Cream Sandwich

    There is a bunch of posts out there on how to root your Droid X then put Ice Cream Sandwich on it, so I just consolidated the info. The Zip file below contains everything you need. Just download the zip and follow my steps and your Droid X will be rooted and have 4.0.3! Oh this is just for phones that are on gingerbread, and with PCs with 32-bit Windows, sorry Linux, and OSX people.

    1. On your droid enable USB debugging and installing apk other than market.
    2. Install Motohelper Drivers and root tool on your PC.
    3. Plug in your phone to the computer and make sure it’s on charge only.
    4. Run the root tool, and it will do it’s magic, I think your phone should reboot 3 times.
    5. Now your rooted!
    6. Transfer the bootstrapper .apk, the gapps.zip and the ICS.zip to your SD card on your phone.
    7. Install the bootstrapper.apk on your phone.
    8. Open bootstrapper, Flash recovery, then boot to recovery.
    9. Your phone now should reboot into recovery.
    10. Wipe data and cache.
    11. Install zip from SD card and choose the ICS.zip first
    12. Then install the gapps.zip the same way.
    13. Reboot the phone.

    Download .Zip Here

    I know the instructions are kinda vague, but if you google the step your stuck on you will find more than your answer. You can also leave a comment as well. Hope this helps šŸ™‚

    Oh and sorry about the slow download, my upload speeds are terrible.

  • Rooting ZTE Score / Google Voice

    Rooting ZTE Score / Google Voice

    I found myself in a sticky situation and without a phone. Needing a phone quick I went to Cricket and got the cheapest Android phone I could get, which was the ZTE Score. After purchasing the phone I came to realize that you couldn’t download Google Voice from the market. šŸ™ I don’t know why you couldn’t, and I didn’t really care to find out why, all I know is that i needed to find google voice somewhere. A quick search found it somewhere on a file sharing site. I downloaded this first one, and after installing it, the icon looked different and after launching it, it was asking me for my gmail account and password..woah, that’s not right. Soo I exited that will quick and searched again and founded a real version.

    Google Voice-0.4.1.19

    Now I wanted to root this guy. Seeing that the ZTE Score was not a popular phone and that I’m not very good with ADB or Android in general. The only way I could get it to work was with Zergā€™s One Click Permanent Root tool. Which meant I had to use a Windows machine, and mine was all disconnected. After hooking all that back up, I installed the Drivers for the ZTE Score. The Phone must be in Debugging Mode, that is done from the home screen by pressing ā€œmenuā€ā€”>ā€Settingsā€ā€”->Manage Applicationsā€”>Development and in there Debugging is an option. I plugged the phone in and ran the ZergRushTempRoot.bat file that was inside the zip file of Zergā€™s One Click Permanent Root tool. I watched the console do it’s thing, it said it was successful, restarted, then it was rooted. Blam!

  • Rooting most HTC phones with the Miui rom

    Rooting most HTC phones with the Miui rom

    When I got my new job they gave me a HTC Incredible, So here I am carrying around 2 phones like I’m some drug dealer. ha. My idea was to port my old number to google voice and disconnect my old service, saving me 80 bucks a month šŸ™‚

    After that was done here I am stuck with this plain jane HTC Incredible. After doing some google searching I stumbled upon unrevoked.com. They make an app that installs on windows, OSX and linux which will install recovery and the rom of your choice, very painless. I installed some rom, don’t remember which one, but I didn’t really like it. After more searching for something different, I found Miui, A rom that kinda looks like the iPhone.
    This rom is my favorite rom i have ever played with. It’s very good on battery life, it’s the most different looking rom i have ever seen, and it has transition effects when your flipping through your screens. It’s definitely a rom worth checking out. So if your thinking about rooting your HTC, go to unrevoked and download Miui, it’s very straight forward, not hard to do at all.
    unrevoked.com
    miuiandroid.com/roms/