Angelbeast
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Does anyone kno how to root the asend 2 gingerbread 2.3.6
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BlastGT1
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MapleBacon
Newbie
I read somewhere that the Activa is very similar to the Huawei Ascend II. Maybe the root method for the Ascend II will work for the Activa. I don't own it to try but it's an idea for someone who does.
pauljulian
Newbie
If you're a Straight Talk customer, as I am, you're probably going to have a long wait, as the Straight Talk 2.3.6 firmware has been determined to be unrootable due to what Straight Talk mandated to be left out or disabled in the firmware. I've been raging at their techs on their "forum" (which it's not... it's a means for them to take every person with an issue offline, and never publicly state a solution for any issue), and I'm done... I will, as soon as this month of service is finished, go to Cricket and have them flash the device, and I'll pay them, as they actually seem to give a damn. And Cricket's firmware IS rootable... there are quite a few sources (here included) with step-by-step instructions to root the beastie... but this only seems to work on Cricket or USCellular firmwares.
Thanks man, yeah unlucky for us. I should have done research before buying. I bought it because it is the cheapest android phone in walmart.
Yeah ive read a lot of cricket ascend2 posts, i think its rootable.
pauljulian
Newbie
Thanks man, yeah unlucky for us. I should have done research before buying. I bought it because it is the cheapest android phone in walmart.
Yeah ive read a lot of cricket ascend2 posts, i think its rootable.
Hell, I'd just like to be able to powercycle the device without getting the keypadprogramming error that, invariably results in my having to factory reset the phone... 4 resets and restores yesterday, the last keeping me up until 4:30 this morning. And the tech that addressed it said I needed to contact the manufacturer... and my answer was that, no, since they have been taking every other user with the issue offline to resolve it, it is a Straight Talk issue, as Cricket and USCC folks are not afflicted with this, that it is whatever they mandated be remmed out of the code; their firmware is the most unstable piece of crap in existence, but we can't root it to try to fix it themselves. They seem to think everyone's talking about "unlocking," which is kinda meaningless on a CDMA device, but they won't escalate the issue to someone who actually knows something about the technology. I'm disgusted.
I'd be golden if there was only the means to turn of signature verification on update files in Recovery, which option apparently Cricket users have... then I could run the update.zip file that's floating around here and elsewhere, and root the beast... they seem to think they're Apple, and that rooting is jailbreaking, and violates a warranty... wrong, wrong and wrong. Yeah, I'm a little pissed...
If anyone knows of a series of adb commands to turn the verification off, I'd be forever grateful.