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Root [Boost Mobile] B10G Updater, compatible with custom recovery

drewhill77 said:
Well...version 1 is the full b10g update...it will patch pretty much your entire system except for your recovery or your kernel (boot.img). Version 4 is one the Mr. Bobo put together that will only flash a few partitions adding the baseband and radio patches without touching anything else...
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Disregarding the bloatware in the full update, will #1 help my system in any way over and above what #4 is doing?

I don't know enough about all this to determine if I should flash the full update or stick with just the baseband/radio patches.
 
ZingBot said:
Disregarding the bloatware in the full update, will #1 help my system in any way over and above what #4 is doing?

I don't know enough about all this to determine if I should flash the full update or stick with just the baseband/radio patches.
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my personal analysis:

if you are running stock I think the update is worth doing. They did patch a lot of the framework jar files and going over the code it seemed like a lot of that was beneficial. It did however add a lot of bloatware and the wifi config app is fairly persistant unless you freeze it. Also I suspect some things were put in place in the rom to make it easier to track data usage. I ran across some interesting code in there doing a comparison between b08c and b10. That said, I don't have a problem getting throttled if I go over their reasonable limits on data usage, I have wifi at home so I am not using a ton of data.

If you are on a custom ROM and flash the update you will loose the custom rom basically since it rewrites the system folder.
 
ZingBot said:
Can you clarify something for me in basic terms....what is the difference between #1 and #4? Just the bloatware? If I flash #1, what will it do to my phone?

Thanks and all help is much appreciated....just started learning root/flashing/roms/etc.
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Basically what Drew said is correct. #1 is the whole update, which is not recommended if you're running a custom ROM since it does pretty much redo the entire system. Flashable #4 is just the radio updates, which will give you only the alleged signal-boosting part of the update, whereas #3 is this plus all of the internal library files and such which many ROMs don't depend on.
 
I went for #1 full update and now I have B10. I tried to freeze the google apps with AppQuarantine but it says I need root access. The apps that were previously frozen are still showing as such in AppQuarantine. I'm rooted (or was) via MrBobo's easy method with CWM. Any suggestions on getting root back?

UPDATE: Wifi Tether won't work either...somebody please help me get root back.
 
ZingBot said:
I went for #1 full update and now I have B10. I tried to freeze the google apps with AppQuarantine but it says I need root access. The apps that were previously frozen are still showing as such in AppQuarantine. I'm rooted (or was) via MrBobo's easy method with CWM. Any suggestions on getting root back?

UPDATE: Wifi Tether won't work either...somebody please help me get root back.
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Check this thread.

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobi...oting-made-simple-boost-mobile-warp-only.html

YES, it will work on B10
 
ZingBot said:
Oh...so just flash EasyRootCWM.zip again and that's it? No need to uninstall the SuperSU that is already on my phone?
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Nope, as LilBit said you'll be fine. The update doesn't actually remove your root access entirely, but it will screw it up so that only some of your apps can have root. Maybe a permissions issue or something of the sort? Whatever the case, flashing the EasyRoot after fixes the issue.
 
LilBit said:
Just flashed it over CTMod3.75/noobed. Broke root on me, so I reflashed Mr. Bobo's easyroot.zip Worked. So now I have a stock B10 rom, with root and Alien kernel.

Lost my rom, Theme, power button menu, drop down menu. If you need recovery, well, you have to do it the old fashioned way, power off the phone, then do the power button volume up deal. I also have a whole bunch of new bloatware running in the background now!!!

google this and google that, google books, google magazines, google plus, lots of google stuff!! Google maps!!! Yay!! Running in the background with no way to shut it down!!

No roms to flash, no themes, the soundpacks are still intact though. My sms mms app is stock now also, sucks bigtime. Stock camera to!! All in all,

I am not a happy camper!!!! Why I did this I'll never know!!! But it gave me nothing as far as I can tell. But hey, I got the latest firmware!!! YIPPEE!!!!

EDIT: My signal is worse now than ever,also lost the ability to update prl, profile,etc.
bad decision as far as I'm concerned. Just a bunch of MASSIVE BLOATWARE
eating up system resources. And the updates it went through!!! MY GOD!!!
I didn't think it was ever going to stop downloading updates!!!
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I might be able to help you out
 
LilBit said:
How?:D
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I'm not sure but this is how it worked for me. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure it will work for you cause you already updated.
What I did was this: first I read about the update and I was not receiving it and I herd people using n00b rom were so I flashed over n00b rom and the update popped up. I updated it and it took me strait to TWRP so I thought something went wrong and I flashed back over to stock deodexed (which is what I normally run.) Then rebooted, went back to recovery and did a backup. Later that day the update popped back up, I waited for the battery to charge to 100% like it asked and updated again. It went back to TWRP. So I clicked on reboot in TWRP, the phone rebooted, everything was fine, still had root, no bloatware, everything was just as I had left it. It has not asked me to update again.
 
jforten420 said:
I'm not sure that it updated though. How can I tell
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According to what you just said you don't have the update installed yet...at no point did you actively flash it nor did it state that it was installing anything while in recovery...at least according to your above statements...

Also had it actually been able to install the full "official" update it would have replaced twrp with stock recovery and broken root...
 
drewhill77 said:
According to what you just said you don't have the update installed yet...at no point did you actively flash it nor did it state that it was installing anything while in recovery...at least according to your above statements...

Also had it actually been able to install the full "official" update it would have replaced twrp with stock recovery and broken root...
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Well it said install and reboot and I clicked yes and it rebooted. Then I went into system setting and clicked on update firmware and zte software and update profile. The only thing that updated was profile
 
jforten420 said:
Well it said install and reboot and I clicked yes and it rebooted. Then I went into system setting and clicked on update firmware and zte software and update profile. The only thing that updated was profile
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I understand...but when it rebooted it went straight to twrp without saying anything about installing or flashing right?
 
mikegmoney said:
So is there anything good abour this update at all?cuz i haveent really heard anything positive yet..
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Mr. Bobo has made it into a rom, as well as another Dev, Plus people are reporting better signal all around.:D

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobi...n00b-b10-based-viii-i-update-1-19-2013-a.html

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobile-warp-all-things-root/676102-b10-based-rom.html

http://androidforums.com/boost-mobile-warp-all-things-root/675897-stock-b10-deodexed.html
 
mercury0x000d said:
Wow, I don't know there... there's nothing in the update that I see which would do that.

What is in the update, however is an app called EMCS_R1_3_0_84_PA-SprintCA.apk. I did a little research and found it used to be called "smith.apk" which itself was a remake of a logging app called HTCLoggers.apk in the HTC world. Think on the lines of CarrierIQ, but not quite as infringing on the users' privacy. You can read more about this little gem here and here.

You know that part in Sprint's new bandwidth managing scheme that says your connection with be swapped between 3G/4G and WiFi, but done intelligently since battery life, CPU usage and WiFi network names will all be taken into account? This is the part that facilitates that monitoring.

One more part of B10G to remove...
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Here's an update in reference to the post above.

I let the smith app run for a couple weeks to see what it would do. In the end, I dumped its log file, and inside I found it made about 1,400 records over the course of about 14 days. The things logged were events such as when you transmit/receive data, connect to - or disconnect from - a network, and data about what phone you have is sent at random intervals. There's also some hex strings which work out to gibberish.

This all seems to indicate that the privacy risk isn't too great. Still, it doesn't mean I like it though. Do I want an app running in the background constantly tracking my phone's behavior and taking notes on things what works out to roughly one hundred times a day?


No thank you.
 
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