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Root [WIP][DEV] Custom Recovery/Bootloader unlocking Work In Progress Thread

I still will never pay $400 for a new phone...that's ridiculous... I'm happy with my small $150 phone :) let's get crackin on this mofo
 
HereticSins said:
Yo shabby I'm trying to sell my motion to get the n4, since its for a good cause to get developing going I'll be willing to sell it to you for 80 dollars, If your interested. Its pretty much new and I still have the box, charger and manuals.
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i would love to jump on this, however the only way im getting the motion is when i sell my gnexus (when i leave sprint) or by getting it from christmas. fundage for buying stuff willy nilly is at an all time low since wife went nuts (my daughter is now 15 months and apparently will grasp the entire concept of xmas and thus needs 60 dollars worth of toys...)

but i wanted to thank you for your generous offer :)
 
Shabbypenguin said:
i would love to jump on this, however the only way im getting the motion is when i sell my gnexus (when i leave sprint) or by getting it from christmas. fundage for buying stuff willy nilly is at an all time low since wife went nuts (my daughter is now 15 months and apparently will grasp the entire concept of xmas and thus needs 60 dollars worth of toys...)

but i wanted to thank you for your generous offer :)
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My wife is the exact opposite with my 2 year old. Lol
 
hm, sextape is known for leaking files. im asking around in teh irc to find out any info but i would imagine its done by flashing a bootloader. which would prolly turn out very badly if done on this device, but we shall see!
 
Shabbypenguin said:
i would love to jump on this, however the only way im getting the motion is when i sell my gnexus (when i leave sprint) or by getting it from christmas. fundage for buying stuff willy nilly is at an all time low since wife went nuts (my daughter is now 15 months and apparently will grasp the entire concept of xmas and thus needs 60 dollars worth of toys...)

but i wanted to thank you for your generous offer :)
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Oh no worries man. My fiance is the same. She wants to buy my son a whole bunch of toys and he's barely two months lol.
 
I guess its still possible this could point us in the right direction once they release it.
Looking at their script :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot

They just wipe recovery and boot and flash the new bootloader. Probably the nexus bootloader if its unlocked? Also wiping the recovery and boot is how they access fastboot in case something goes wrong.
 
omgbossis21 said:
I guess its still possible this could point us in the right direction once they release it.
Looking at their script :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot

They just wipe recovery and boot and flash the new bootloader. Probably the nexus bootloader if its unlocked? Also wiping the recovery and boot is how they access fastboot in case something goes wrong.
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what new bootloader? the optimus g and nexus 4 are amazingly similar to the point of they will prolly share kernels. what phone is similar like that to the motion yet is unlocked?
 
# alright, let's do this as safely as possible.
# nuke boot and recovery first, that way if we get interrupted, you still get fastboot
echo "Erasing recovery and boot..."
echo "out of space errors are normal, dont worry about those."
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot
echo ""
# time to install our new bootloader!
echo "Erasing bootloader, and installing new one..."
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot
dd if=/data/local/tmp/freegee-working/aboot-$VARIANT-freegee.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot
echo ""
# now, let's put in our recovery and boot.imgs
echo "Installing CWM and modified boot image for stock ROM..."
dd if=/data/local/tmp/freegee-working/recovery-$VARIANT-freegee.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
dd if=/data/local/tmp/freegee-working/boot-$VARIANT-freegee.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot

I seen in a thread theres a phone to be relaesed similar to the motion but I dont remember what it was. There was little to no info about it at the time i read it.
 
I know its not going to work on our phones like that. Though i wish i could find the post of the phone that is similar to ours,possibly still to be released?
 
sammyz said:
LG Regard 4G for Cricket.
Model number: LW770
Not released yet.
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Not released yet, but hardware is exactly the same with an altered battery. Software wise, takes everything metro and rename it kricket. Bleh. I'm just gonna beat my motion like a cheap hooker and hope it gets the point.
 
Cricket does that with every phone they basically just wait for metro to pay the manufacturer to develop the phone then comes in & say can I get what they just got. They did it with the Optimus m, Huawei Ascend, Samsung Admire, Samsung Indulge 4G, HTC Evo V we just ended up canceling it, Samsung Galaxy S3 we have a different model number than everyone else because they has to add an LTE band to it but they got the same one as us and now the motion.
And basically all the feature phones
 
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