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Q: Expanding Ram. Would it be possible to expand the so Called RAM area of this phone(Considering it uses a partion)? If this is possible where could I find info on this.

I know I know "OMGSH THE ALLY ISNT A HIGH-END PHONE NOOB!" But still... I would like to be able to play the good games.
 
hey hoping i can get a bit of help now. I did all the steps to get root access (I got the superuser i con on my phone. I try to boot into recovery console and it does not load! After the beginning lg logo i get the little android icon with the "!" symbol next to it then it just restarts the phone regularly.

Ive tried the button presses that your suppose to power on with (maybe im doing it wrong, if someone would like to tell me the correct sequence) and i even downloaded an app that is suppose to do it for me. Any ideas? I though Id be good to go since i got the the icon on my phone but would i have to go back and try to redo a certain step? thx in advance
 
i get to the C:\android\adk\tools)adb devices
list of devices attached


and there is no device attached, and i have followed every step to the T did nothing wrong, my computer just wont show an adb device.... help me plz, im running a windows 32 bit system i've done everything im supposed to and i cant go any further till it recognizes the adb
 
rabbit21400 said:
i get to the C:\android\adk\tools)adb devices
list of devices attached


and there is no device attached, and i have followed every step to the T did nothing wrong, my computer just wont show an adb device.... help me plz, im running a windows 32 bit system i've done everything im supposed to and i cant go any further till it recognizes the adb
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Do you have USB debugging on?

Go to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Make sure the USB debugging box is checked.
 
shynsta said:
hey hoping i can get a bit of help now. I did all the steps to get root access (I got the superuser i con on my phone. I try to boot into recovery console and it does not load! After the beginning lg logo i get the little android icon with the "!" symbol next to it then it just restarts the phone regularly.

Ive tried the button presses that your suppose to power on with (maybe im doing it wrong, if someone would like to tell me the correct sequence) and i even downloaded an app that is suppose to do it for me. Any ideas? I though Id be good to go since i got the the icon on my phone but would i have to go back and try to redo a certain step? thx in advance
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The button press is send+menu+end to access recovery menu. however it will not work if you did not go through the process of flashing the recovery image to your phone. as seen here: http://androidforums.com/ally-all-things-root/146564-ally-recovery-img-here-custom-roms.html
 
dots said:
Do you have USB debugging on?

Go to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Make sure the USB debugging box is checked.
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i had it turned on but because i had pdanet running when i turned debugging on it wasnt reading the device, after i turned it off and back on and it said "please enable usb tethering on your phone" i didnt turn it on and i ran C:\android\sdk\tools\abd devices it ended up reading the device, basically you cant have pdanet ubs tethering turned on while ur doing this step
 
Hey, folks. I'm slowly working my way into the rooting scene. For now, I just wanted to get rid of the apps that were running services I don't care about (Backup Assistant, Weather and Dual Clock). That seems to have worked fine.

I wouldn't mind freeing up some space now by moving some of the heavier apps to the /system partition, but I'm not sure if that's safe. Is there anything special about /system, or should I be ok moving some apps there to make a little room.

I realize that I may need to move things like Backup Assistant back onto /system if I need to do a stock reset.
 
I decided to just give it a try, and it works fine. In fact, with Root Explorer, it's nearly trivial. You just have to mount /system read-write, which is a button-click in Root Explorer. I've moved a number of the larger apps from /data/app to /system/app. The only hitch was that I had to reboot the phone after moving the apps to get them to show back up in the apps list. Once that was fixed, I was able to run them just fine from /system/app.

This is great, since now I can convert space regained on /system (by deleting some of the Stock Ally apps) into space on /data to install more apps from the market. The only issue I can see is that I'll have to jump through extra hoops to update the apps that I've moved to /system, but that shouldn't be a huge deal.
 
is there a rar program for mac that can write files back to apk files and jar files. cause opening parallels evertime i want to use winrar gets really annoying cause it slows my system like CRAZY. so is there something i can download to do that?
 
rwilliams1026 said:
is there a rar program for mac that can write files back to apk files and jar files. cause opening parallels evertime i want to use winrar gets really annoying cause it slows my system like CRAZY. so is there something i can download to do that?
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If IIRC, when I did a white clock mod it required updating a classes file inside a .jar file. I had to download the Java JDK, then use the command:

jar uf

This copies a file and places it into a .jar file. Naturally you would list your two files after that.

However, unsure if the Java JDK is available for mac, though it may be. And this is only for .jar files. Unsure about .apk's

Hope that helps.
 
flick159 said:
If IIRC, when I did a white clock mod it required updating a classes file inside a .jar file. I had to download the Java JDK, then use the command:

jar uf

This copies a file and places it into a .jar file. Naturally you would list your two files after that.

However, unsure if the Java JDK is available for mac, though it may be. And this is only for .jar files. Unsure about .apk's

Hope that helps.
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sadly its not for mac :( but im mostly looking for stuff for apks anyways, but thanks for your attempted help anyways lol
 
For whatever reason I'm not getting the success message when I run asroot2. Hell, it looks like the whole thing just hangs the terminal. Here's what I'm getting:
Code: 
c:\android\sdk\tools>adb shell
$ cd /data/local
cd /data/local
$ ls -l
ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx shell    shell       74512 2010-09-23 07:01 asroot2
drwxrwx--x shell    shell             2010-05-24 21:45 tmp
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
 [+] Using newer pipe_inode_info layout
Opening: /proc/2153/fd/3
I get the Opening: /proc/... message and then...nothing. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get this to work?
 
I just got my 2.1 update today and wanted to root my phone sometime soon. Should I do this now or wait? I'm new to Android (new to smart phones actually) and have no idea what to do. I am worried that I might accidentally skip a step or make some kind of noob mistake and brick my phone. I really know nothing about computers so "in English" tutorials would be wonderful.
 
Thats why its not going through. VZB patched it. Try Universal Androot. Here:
Software2Tech.com Download Universal Androot

scan the qr code towards the bottom. it will save the apk to your sd card

goto settings>applications and check Unknown Sources

then download astro in the market when it opens it should show the contents of your sdcard now open the download folder tap Universal Androot choose open app manager and then click install. now open up the app and choose root
 
death2all110 said:
Thats why its not going through. VZB patched it. Try Universal Androot. Here:
Software2Tech.com Download Universal Androot

scan the qr code towards the bottom. it will save the apk to your sd card

goto settings>applications and check Unknown Sources

then download astro in the market when it opens it should show the contents of your sdcard now open the download folder tap Universal Androot choose open app manager and then click install. now open up the app and choose root
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Should I be getting the # prompt in adb shell after I root it? Because right now I'm still just getting $.
 
As death2all110 said VZB patched it.

Just a little something i observed with the OTA and rooting.

For me Universal Androot 1.6.5 beta 5 said it rooted it but when i tried running barnacle still got the error for no root. So i decided to try Androot 1.6.5 beta and it worked. Also androot 1.6.1 rooted it for another person.

Just throwing that out there.
 
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