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

Spectrum and Spectrum 2 are closer, might work. Need 2 things 1. A copy of all the partitions used for booting from it 2. Someone with a motion they are willing to risk hard bricking.
 
the Spectrum 2 is the closest living thing to our phone...nothing else comes close and nothing else will be released that is anywhere close...i think that phone would be our only chance..
 
Just a thought, but we have init support right, well if we flash the init.d for all thingy. We could write a small script(I believe it's possible not totally sure) to boot from another boot.img once the original boot.img has been booted and has bypassed the initial signature checks. I'm saying the stock boot.img is what sets of init.d scripts so the secondary boot.img will have to reload of system or data partion as both could be binded together doing "mount -o bind /sdcard /system" or place of choice. The secondary boot.img will have to be modified to work like this if not I believe it won't work at all, or better yet modding the stock kernel for overclocking or what not or even stock kernel no mods just no signature and trying to boot that. Just saying.
 
zimlokks said:
Just a thought, but we have init support right, well if we flash the init.d for all thingy. We could write a small script(I believe it's possible not totally sure) to boot from another boot.img once the original boot.img has been booted and has bypassed the initial signature checks. I'm saying the stock boot.img is what sets of init.d scripts so the secondary boot.img will have to reload of system or data partion as both could be binded together doing "mount -o bind /sdcard /system" or place of choice. The secondary boot.img will have to be modified to work like this if not I believe it won't work at all, or better yet modding the stock kernel for overclocking or what not or even stock kernel no mods just no signature and trying to boot that. Just saying.
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go ahead and try it out and let us know how it worked :P
 
It would be awesome :D buttttt I don't own a motion at the moment. I'll see if i can get some money tho and get one. I've been thinking about trying kexec as well almost the same process.
 
zimlokks said:
Just a thought, but we have init support right, well if we flash the init.d for all thingy. We could write a small script(I believe it's possible not totally sure) to boot from another boot.img once the original boot.img has been booted and has bypassed the initial signature checks. I'm saying the stock boot.img is what sets of init.d scripts so the secondary boot.img will have to reload of system or data partion as both could be binded together doing "mount -o bind /sdcard /system" or place of choice. The secondary boot.img will have to be modified to work like this if not I believe it won't work at all, or better yet modding the stock kernel for overclocking or what not or even stock kernel no mods just no signature and trying to boot that. Just saying.
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Want the opinion of someone who knows a bit more about bricking than me. Chance of this causing perma-brick? If it's really low/nonexistant, I will try it, if it is a higher chance, I will upload for someone who is a bit braver than I am. Already perma-bricked once.
 
I have a feeling it wont brick you because it would load stock kernel first and if it failed to load second kernel, then youd still be running stock. If it did load second kernel, you better be running one for this phone :p
 
zeest said:
Want the opinion of someone who knows a bit more about bricking than me. Chance of this causing perma-brick? If it's really low/nonexistant, I will try it, if it is a higher chance, I will upload for someone who is a bit braver than I am. Already perma-bricked once.
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Yeah. No.

If there's a chance you have something that could brick someone's phone, please don't post it.

If a qualified dev wants to assess what you have, let them send you a PM.

Cheers, thanks. :)
 
Well mi idea was based of Kexec a thread on this forum already. I think someone is looking in to it already. It wont cause a brick if anything but may cause unstabilty for the first testers if this method woul be tested. I would try to help etc but not knowing alot about kernels is kinda of a issue and not owning the phone is worse i wont blindly test something that might not work. While im here can someone extract the zImage for me ill test on a freinds phone.
 
Alright, I am working on this. So, I was thinking make it a script that runs after boot, because trying to incorporate it into our boot.img gave me a security error. What command is used in a script to run something at that low of a level? Also, can anyone tell me how our recovery works (how it boots into the recovery without throwing a security error)? I am thinking of basing it off that.
 
plasticarmyman said:
the Spectrum 2 is the closest living thing to our phone...nothing else comes close and nothing else will be released that is anywhere close...i think that phone would be our only chance..
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Its not the Spectrum 2 but the only LG ICS phone I know of that has an unlocked boot loader thanks to an update from LG is the LG Optimus L9. just saying, I have the files if anyone wants to take a look at them, I just made a CWM recovery for it.
 
angryGTS said:
Its not the Spectrum 2 but the only LG ICS phone I know of that has an unlocked boot loader thanks to an update from LG is the LG Optimus L9. just saying, I have the files if anyone wants to take a look at them, I just made a CWM recovery for it.
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What about the Optimus L7???
 
angryGTS said:
Its not the Spectrum 2 but the only LG ICS phone I know of that has an unlocked boot loader thanks to an update from LG is the LG Optimus L9. just saying, I have the files if anyone wants to take a look at them, I just made a CWM recovery for it.
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"TI OMAP 4430 chipset, dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1 GB RAM, PowerVR SGX540 GPU,"

its basicly a watered down galaxy nexus
 
yeah......but with a battery and screen actually worth a damn. But anyway I have the files if anyone wants to take a gander at them, could be something could be nothing.
 
angryGTS said:
yeah......but with a battery and screen actually worth a damn. But anyway I have the files if anyone wants to take a gander at them, could be something could be nothing.
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my point was merely it isnt even the same hardware vendor. so teh odds of teh bootloader working are very slim considering closer phones have been tested by hroark and failed
 
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