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Root Steven update..

Yup, what are you planning for the old girl that served you well for over a year?

Create a shrine?
Sell it?
Use it as a 4.3" wi-fi tablet?
 
I'm donating my Droid x to Aceoyame over at rootzwiki so that he can continue development for the X. He has taken over development on miui for the X.
 
Just curious.

Older (non-smart) phones just went in a box or were donated to a battered women's shelter, but when a data plan is required, then things change.

I suppose I could have created another poll.... :eek::D
 
Their price just came down. They're only offering 48 for it now.
 
Steven58 said:
Their price just came down. They're only offering 48 for it now.
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Target is offering an even $50 for the DX. Still to low for me.

Thinking I am going to start out asking $200 for mine (car dock, desk dock, extended and regular batteries, Otterbox case). Excellent condition.
 
scary alien said:
Wow, well, I'm sure if you want to sell yours you could get way more than that (especially from me :))...I'd have to explain to my wife why I'm getting a new Galaxy Nexus and an old DX :eek: :D. LOL.
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Do you just want mine? I'll give it to you.
 
Steven58 said:
Do you just want mine? I'll give it to you.
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LOL, that's very generous of you, Steven :)...but I really ought to stick to my three Android devices for the time being (soon to be four (GNex), I hope :)).

I just can't imagine that such an awesome device (bootloader status notwithstanding ;)) like the Droid X wouldn't have a higher buy-back value. I think the HTC Droid Eris had a buy-back value of $132 for a long time afterwards, but that may have been due to so many folks returning their originals (or refurbs) due to problems and VZW not having enough in stock.

Cheers!
 
The thing about learning to root and rom on a DX, last year, was that I learned on an encrypted bootloader. My next phone will probably be the nexus and I'm worried that I have to learn modding all over again.

Can any of you guys, who have had other phones tell me if there are any similarities? I mean, I've run the entire rooting spectrum on the DX and you know I have enough knowledge and experience to teach others, but will I be a newbie without an encrypted bootloader?

Eh... I'll just ask a lot of questions, ...again.
 
Steven58 said:
The thing about learning to root and rom on a DX, last year, was that I learned on an encrypted bootloader. My next phone will probably be the nexus and I'm worried that I have to learn modding all over again.

Can any of you guys, who have had other phones tell me if there are any similarities? I mean, I've run the entire rooting spectrum on the DX and you know I have enough knowledge and experience to teach others, but will I be a newbie without an encrypted bootloader?

Eh... I'll just ask a lot of questions, ...again.
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Sorry, I hit the sack right after my last post :).

I can only speak of my experiences with the HTC Droid Eris. The key partitions (recovery, boot (containing the kernel), and baseband (radio)) were not locked-down if you had root access. Once you had root, we were able to flash Amon_RA's custom recovery and install custom ROMs, flash new kernels, and replace the radio.

There is a security mode (S-ON (secured) or S-OFF (unsecured)) on the HTC phones that controls whether or not you can use the fastboot utility to perform some extra and powerful commands that are really handy in recovering a borked phone.

I'm guessing though that once we "fastboot oem unlock" (I think that's right) our Galaxy Nexus phones, things will be pretty "normal" in custom recovery--i.e., you'll boot directly (no "fence-hopping" ;)) into a custom recovery and have the ability to flash not just custom ROMs, but update the kernel and the radio, too (oh, and make and restore Nandroid backups, etc.).

Just my take on things.

Cheers!
 
scary alien said:
Sorry, I hit the sack right after my last post :).

I can only speak of my experiences with the HTC Droid Eris. The key partitions (recovery, boot (containing the kernel), and baseband (radio)) were not locked-down if you had root access. Once you had root, we were able to flash Amon_RA's custom recovery and install custom ROMs, flash new kernels, and replace the radio.

There is a security mode (S-ON (secured) or S-OFF (unsecured)) on the HTC phones that controls whether or not you can use the fastboot utility to perform some extra and powerful commands that are really handy in recovering a borked phone.

I'm guessing though that once we "fastboot oem unlock" (I think that's right) our Galaxy Nexus phones, things will be pretty "normal" in custom recovery--i.e., you'll boot directly (no "fence-hopping" ;)) into a custom recovery and have the ability to flash not just custom ROMs, but update the kernel and the radio, too (oh, and make and restore Nandroid backups, etc.).

Just my take on things.

Cheers!
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Sounds easy enough. Thank you very much .
 
colchiro said:
What are you guys doing with your X's?
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making sure she is aware that the divorce is final the second week of december ^_^



o wait my phone?

im keeping it!
not selling, not giving, not loaning, its mine and im keeping it ^_^

this way its a sure fire thing to fall back on in case something happens to my nexus
 
Steven58 said:
The thing about learning to root and rom on a DX, last year, was that I learned on an encrypted bootloader. My next phone will probably be the nexus and I'm worried that I have to learn modding all over again.

Can any of you guys, who have had other phones tell me if there are any similarities? I mean, I've run the entire rooting spectrum on the DX and you know I have enough knowledge and experience to teach others, but will I be a newbie without an encrypted bootloader?

Eh... I'll just ask a lot of questions, ...again.
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im still not up to speed on kernels/overclocking, my overclock never stuck on my dx, after about 2 hrs it went back to stock, so i said the heck with it, and just stuck with normal settings, only because its just as fast
 
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