Hello every one.
Unfortunatly my RM-914 has a samsung EMMC chip.
I know that even unlock bootloader is dangerous.
I'd like to know if some hacking oprations are safer than other to avoir strong risk of EMMC write protection.
My main goal is to upgrade this stock RM-914 to windows 10, so if there is a way without risk for samsung EMMC, I'd like to know. Thanks!
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Does anyone know if there would be anyway to check for the bad memory block issues certain people are having before rooting the phone? I was thinking about rooting soon and have been holding out because of the warranty concerns. It would be nice if I could tell before to avoid flashing issues. If I do have some bad memory blocks, I may be able to get a replacement before I root. Also, does anyone have any idea how frequent N1's with this issue are?
Thanks,
Dave
I believe ever phone that uses flash memory has bad blocks it just depends on how many you have. If the phone works with the stock rom and you are not having problems saving data to the phone HTC will not replace it for you. I think the only way to find out is to have a custom recovery to check. Having a custom recovery means unlocking the phone.
Hi,
This is my first android device and i wanted to root it.
I know that rooting means getting admin access to device so you can do stuff which you may not be able to normally. (a bit like jailbreaking iOS?)
I wanted to know if there is any risk in rooting as some people have told me that you can brick your device if you don't root properly and stuff.
Also can you explain what a kernel and ROM's are?
Thanks in Advance.
aniqpirzada said:
Hi,
This is my first android device and i wanted to root it.
I know that rooting means getting admin access to device so you can do stuff which you may not be able to normally. (a bit like jailbreaking iOS?)
I wanted to know if there is any risk in rooting as some people have told me that you can brick your device if you don't root properly and stuff.
Also can you explain what a kernel and ROM's are?
Thanks in Advance.
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There is always risk with rooting. Instructions not followed correctly is usually how a device is bricked. But if you follow instrucitons very carefully and to the detail.. then you are 99% safe.
Kernel: Its the bridge between applications and the actual data processing by the hardware. The kernel manages the system's communication between hardware and software components.
ROMs:
A stock ROM is the version of the phone's operating system that comes with your phone when you buy it.
A custom ROM is a fully standalone version of the OS, including the kernel, apps, services, etc - everything you need to operate the device, except it's customized by someone in some way.
This question's bothering me a lot lately. I used to have a Nexus 4 and it was easy to flash a ROM without all that Knox eFuse flag thing. If you got in trouble with a specific ROM, you just ran that batch file that came with the factory image zip. Everything was fine. Chances of hardbricking it: 1:10²³. Pretty straight forwad. But what about the Note 3, specificly the n9005? What are the odds of actually fullbricking this device? What is it, that one individual must do to irrecoverably brick it?
I'm also asking because I feel an intense urge to play with AOSP ROMs as I did with my Nexus 4. Since the Note 3 has that Knox flag and costs up to 600€, I just wan't to make sure there's not much that I could do wrong. I'm aware that once I flash unsigned data, the Knox flag will change to 0x1.
The only full bricks I have seen were people who flashed the wrong ROM version on their Hong Kong devices. Those appear to have a different partition structure. Flashing the wrong pit file on those rendered their devices hardbricked. I didn't follow through on those threads so not sure if they found a fix.
I would say the most likely "hard brick" is your EFS. its not a hard brick by definition, but once you lose the imei and have no backup its pretty much game over for phone functionality. A phone that can't connect to mobile networks is a hard brick in my book.
Hello,
I might buy 6" ZE600KL, important points for me are big screen for reading and root access since I will be using a few applications that need root rights. Is it possible to root this device?
Regards.
Sure, it's possible. Will any developers take notice and buy one? I don't know. Maybe, it'll be easier for non-owners to develop for if the hardware is mostly similar to an existing device, but I haven't looked at it, so again, I don't know.
system and boot are the same for ZE550KL and ZE600KL, just flash the ZE550KL rooted images and you will have root on your ZE600KL
I just picked up a brand new A710M duos and it upgraded to 6.0.1 on first use.
I don't see anything about this model here on XDA so im wondering if anyone could point out if its Rootable, bootloader unlock, etc.
Its a sweet little phone and is totally awesome looking. One of the best looking Samsung devices I've used so far.
I'm a Nexus user so I'm used to simple unlocks.
Thanks for any help provided.
you rarely have any unlocking to do with samsungs, bootloaders are 99% of the time unlocked, and flashing is piss easy
root is not really hard to achieve, the problem is, there is an eFuse inside that seems to trigger itself (KNOX) whenever you touch the sensitive partitions (system, recovery). KNOX triggered means warranty is done.
that said, you can flash TWRP with Odin, and flash SuperSU through it, and root you will have.