Recent content by thejerk

i dont want to clone the phone. what i want to do is clone the OS and install that on the exact same phone model. i want to avoid going through the flashing process, since the phone that i want to clone the OS of is already flashed to cricket. will this work if they are both running the...

im going to purchase a gs2 in mint condition but is stuck in manual mode. im picking it up for less than the cost of a replacement digitizer (more on this later). anywho, the guy says he hasnt flashed it, that one day he woke up and it started booting into manual mode. according to him, he can...

so ive been on the stock rom for a while after trying blu kuban. im tempted to try another rom tonight but am hoping i can fix the issue i have. since i restored m y stock rom with AGAT, the lights on the bottom do not work. also, over the last 2 days, 4g has pretty much stopped working. 3g...

i have a gs2 boost that was flashed to cricket. which guides do i need to follow to install a rom? do i need boost-specific roms or can i just use any cricket rom ment for 4.1.2, GC01?

so i was updating the rom on my phone (boost galaxy s2 flashed to cricket, rooted) and my silly UPS decided to completely power off while odin was doing its thing. needless to say, im now faced with the 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try...

ive been running open android for a while now, at least 6 months. ive grown tired of it, space always being used by random items and ive never really gotten around to uninstalling worthless items. im currently running the following: android 2.3.6 kernel ver 2.6.35.7 build number...

got this on a trade. technically, you can say i spent 40$ on it, since the item i traded was valued at that. anywho its running ICS 4.0.4. want to root, but cant find any one-clicks that work. can i downgrade to 2.3 and root like i did my ascend II? would also love to install CM7 or 10 on...

im attempting to install CM7 on my ascend 2 but cannot get it to boot into recovery mode VIA rom manager. reboots to the white ascend screen and sits there. i had read a few other users simply reflashed cwm until it worked (2-3 times), but that has not been the case for me. CWM ver 4.0.1.5...

i simply cannot get files to transfer from my windows 7 pc to my phone VIA bluetooth. i can stream music fine (listening to a state of trance ep 500 right now), i can use my pc as a hands-free set, i can send files from my phone to my computer but not vise versa. ive sent files from my wifes...

so after a good hiatus from the phone hacking scene, i have come back and rooted a pair of ascend IIs i got for the missus and i. my questions are this now: i know what rooted means in the linux world and what bad it can do in the wrong hands. what exactly does rooting an android phone do...