Root [Boost Mobile] Official help thread

[drewhill77]

Couple of interesting questions...or at least I think so anyway

1. As I understand nand flash cannot read and write at the same time...but can it perform multiple simultaneous reads or writes?
-been looking and can't seem to find an answer

2. Is it possible to have different filesystems for different partitions?
ex. /data [btrfs] and /system [ext4]

 

[bricky]

My problem is my wifi hasny worked fo awhile.i dont use it much so its not a huge deal. it stop working some in the middle of installing all the different roms.i dont have the oc kernel it is the same no matter whatvrom im using.it connects then almost immediately dis connects and just keeps doing that. connect, - diconnect. i got my gf a warp and rooted it today and she connected fine.by the way that new rooting method (easyroot)omg wish that was around when i did my phone..any advice appreciated.
ps. you guys are awesome spending your free time helping people.thanks

 

[cartersball]

My advice would be to use Snake's Warp Drive Tool and take the device back to stock recovery completely with the signed B08C rom it uses. From there you can use the ZTE Update tool to make sure you are 100% stock. Go back to the Warp Drive Tool and Reinstall CWM and the data patch, and then flash whatever ROM you choose.

My Warp has had that same issue before and there are many factors that play a role from the kernel, build.prop, ROM or even a hardware issue. Taking the phone all the way back to stock recovery gets rid of lots of residual effects from different ROMs etc. MrBoBo gave me this advice quite some time ago and I have used this method when problems arise religiously. Many of the build.prop files and ROM's have various 3G tweaks included. Many of the build.prop 3G tweaks were originally meant for GSM phones and I have noticed that some will cause WiFi switching issues because of it. Check out the Super Phone III build.prop. I have been running it quite some time with a good amount of success.

 

[MrBobo]

My problem is my wifi hasny worked fo awhile.i dont use it much so its not a huge deal. it stop working some in the middle of installing all the different roms.i dont have the oc kernel it is the same no matter whatvrom im using.it connects then almost immediately dis connects and just keeps doing that. connect, - diconnect. i got my gf a warp and rooted it today and she connected fine.by the way that new rooting method (easyroot)omg wish that was around when i did my phone..any advice appreciated.
ps. you guys are awesome spending your free time helping people.thanks

Have you tried this on multiple wifi locations or just one? It could be the router too, if it's just one location doing this, try rebooting the router and see if that fixes it.

 

[jimsmith80]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on what tools are needed for editing the xml files for system apps. I run debian 6.0 and can not find any editor that can even read xml let alone edit it.

 

[drewhill77]

What are the different folders on /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/ assigned to? I know 179:0 is sdcard...but what are the rest or how can i find out?

 

[Deleted User]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on what tools are needed for editing the xml files for system apps. I run debian 6.0 and can not find any editor that can even read xml let alone edit it.

You need to decompile the apk with apktool. Then you can use a standard editor like gedit

 

[Deleted User]

What are the different folders on /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/ assigned to? I know 179:0 is sdcard...but what are the rest or how can i find out?

Why?

 

[drewhill77]

Why?

Because knowledge is power lol...but seriously since sdreadahead script adjusts values in 179:0 for better sd reading I'm curious about the other folders but am reluctant to just start changing values without knowing where to look for the effects.

With sd (179:0) i know to hdparm -tT mmcblk1 to see its effect

 

[mhannah3333]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for information on what tools are needed for editing the xml files for system apps. I run debian 6.0 and can not find any editor that can even read xml let alone edit it.

You can use notepad++ for windows... dont know if they have a debian version

 

[Deleted User]

I don't think they are decompiling it first. Xmls turn into jibberish if its just pulled out if an apk

 

[Tigatron]

I don't think they are decompiling it first. Xmls turn into jibberish if its just pulled out if an apk

That's no joke. If your lucky there may be a couple words that are in the jibberish.

 

[sb43]

I'm truly glad this thread is being used reduces some clutter and its also a good place for newbies to get information

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I think I messed up.
I'm a newb, but fairly tech savvy ( I'm always looking to tweak the phone or computer). The other night I downloaded CDMA (demo) and hooked up my phone. I guess I clicked something, and now my computer see's the USB in the device manager, but won't hook up. It says my phone is on COM 10
The USB doesn't come up on my phone either. Can I fix it? Or is there something I need to download to the phone. Please help. It's not threatening, just a pain in the butt if I want to put something on the SD card. I have to manually take it out and put it on the computer, Transfer files then put it back into the phone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott

 

[Tigatron]

open phone dialer and enter *983*87274#
choose AT and you should be good to go

 

[sb43]

Thank You Sir! I greatly appreciate it!

 

[sb43]

Thank you again! Works now. Now back to teakin this monster. I love it! Now if I could only do the CDMA trick! That would be awesome! Thanks again!

 

[jimsmith80]

You need to decompile the apk with apktool. Then you can use a standard editor like gedit

Your the man DTM. It really surprised how simple the basics are. I can't wait to start digging into the lower level work like you horak13 and shinru have done such an awesome job at

 

[bricky]

Suddenly no one can hear me during calls but i can hear them.any ideas

 

[eisawi99]

ok heres the deal i want someone to make the internal storage usable... is this possible???

 

[Deleted User]

ok heres the deal i want someone to make the internal storage usable... is this possible???

Can you be more specific?

 

[eisawi99]

Can you be more specific?

i want the phones internal storage thats usually reserved for apps to be usable as a internal SD (not all of it... just 2 gigs)

 

[shivarenald]

hey i am using galaxy ace gt s5380
i am trying to root my phone but i get status 7 installation aborted
my android version is 2.3.4
i use cwm v5.0.2.6
can u help me......

 

[eisawi99]

umm i think you might want to delete that post before a mod (no offense mods) nags you about it. this thread is for zte warps N860's only.

 

[bricky]

does it matter in what order you add lines to the

build prop

 

[Techhead914]

I have a problem with my boost mobile zte warp. i rooted my phone in early 2012 and now since there is a new update for the zte warp it will not update. please help. i have the bo8c build and hardware vrsion is c4tB. it will let me download the update but when i tell it to install it will get 15% threw it and it will abort and im at the boot menu to reboot phone. please help asap