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ikr lol. but isnt there a factory version of ics? not an updated ics i mean from when the phone first came out

1. Download RebootMenu from Google Play: hxxp://goo.gl/Xc7mHH
2. Within the app, click "Reboot Bootloader"
Once you do that, the device will restart at the boot logo and the LED will be red/orange: you are now in the bootloader.
3. Connect your device to your computer and go to Android SDK's platform-tools in CMD or Terminal and type: fastboot devices. This is to confirm that the device is recognized
4. If it is then type: fastboot oem unlock
5. Type : fastboot reboot
That should be it
Hey guys, akaji17 says that he got our sister phone's bootloader unlocked this way:
Has anyone tried this yet? I would but I'm weary as I just got this phone today and it's my daily driver.
Hey guys, akaji17 says that he got our sister phone's bootloader unlocked this way:
Has anyone tried this yet? I would but I'm weary as I just got this phone today and it's my daily driver.
Hey guys, akaji17 says that he got our sister phone's bootloader unlocked this way:
Has anyone tried this yet? I would but I'm weary as I just got this phone today and it's my daily driver.

Hey guys... always lurking in the shadows... yeah we tried that... the public mobile bootloader was accessible in the same fashion. however there was no result with the oem unlock command. however if you look through the first few pages, you will see that if you can access the bootloader(fastboot), you can use the commad "fastboot boot <image>" and that will allow you to boot into a compiled clockworkmod or twrp recovery. but if you flash it, it will never boot into recovery unless you flash back to stock. Whats funny is the rise has three variations. the virgin c5155, the sprint c5155 and the public mobile c5156. and if you flash a recovery from any of them on to an other including the hydro, those will boot just fine with minor partition errors due to the different partitions and screen positions in the mentioned phones. but the bootloader is locked. IT'S LOCKED!!! LOCKED I SAY!!!!! i bricked three rises trying to get the cwm on it and I'm just giving you guys the info. without compiling a new set of bootloaders, there will never be a custom recovery on these phones... sorry![]()

Well I just got three kyocera rises (C5156) because public mobile was bought out by Telus mobility. Telus operates on a HSPA+ network and all CDMA phones are no longer usable... They had been transitioning for six months.. now its done.. So i got a few testers... Maybe I'll try somethings out...
Well first thing I gotta do is turn my C5156 into a C5155. If anyone has a sprint c5155 i could use a full dump(mmcblk0). make sure you gave it a wipe first and if you have early version ics 4.0.3, that would help our chances... I really don't think this will do it but maybe I can contribute a step forward...

Stock Images (system is rooted, obviously):
Recovery: DepositFiles Download
System: DepositFiles Download
Boot: DepositFiles Download
Is this what I use to re-add the stock VM image on a rooted Rise
c5155 4.04 1.004VM?
I deleted some Google system apps, and the phone has been acting like crap for my dad, I like to repair it for him.
How do you run the recovery? My phone you just dump the image on the SD card and reboot to recovery?
Is he getting force closes from the app removal? Which gapps did you remove? I would shy away from flashing anything just yet. If it was only apps you removed, it can be fixed pretty easily. If he's getting force closes, I can pull the apps and their odex files from my wife's rise, upload and link them for you. Problem solved. I should mention this phone runs like crap regardless of what you do to it. That's why everyone wants clockwork mod so bad. A custom OS could fix probably %99 of the problems with this phone.

Looking through the source code of kyocera stock recovery, it seems like it is possible to get adb in the stock recovery. Maybe helpful for the folks who want to fix bootloops.
Source: https://github.com/ebmajor/msm8625_bootable_recovery