Hi everyone,
I get www getdroidtips dot com often in search results when researching if a phone can be rooted or if a certain ROM works on it. Is it a legit site? They have tutorials that sometimes link to firmwares on a google drive (e.g. stock firmware), so I wonder if it is really legit.
Thanks
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MrGCH said:
Hi everyone,
I get www getdroidtips dot com often in search results when researching if a phone can be rooted or if a certain ROM works on it. Is it a legit site? They have tutorials that sometimes link to firmwares on a google drive (e.g. stock firmware), so I wonder if it is really legit.
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My POV: Extracting a ROM from a phone you own is perfectly legal - at least in US, but downloading stock ROMs from the WEB unless offered on OEM's or Carrirer's site is a crime.
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My POV: Extracting a ROM from a phone you own is perfectly legal - at least in US, but downloading stock ROMs from the WEB unless offered on OEM's or Carrirer's site is a crime.
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I believe even in the US it is legal, at least this is my understanding : "The American implementation is the*Digital Millennium Copyright Act*(DMCA), which includes a process for establishing exemptions for non-copyright-infringing purposes such as rooting". In the EU it is also legal (you are allowed to replace software). Many vendors ship unlocked bootloaders for this reason. Rooting is not the same as jailbreaking on IOS; jailbreaking exploits bugs and rooting just gives you root access via an unlocked/replaceable bootloader.
But my question was more if it is a reputable source or not.
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I have been a part of GetDroidTips for more than two years now. We at GetDroidTips usually have all the solutions to any troubleshooting issues and updates on bugs, latest Android updates and more from legit sources. Irrespective if it legal or not to download any ROM, we make sure what information you get is legit. Downloading stuff is always at user's discretion depending upon if rooting or installing a software is banned or barred in one's country and it is truly subjective.
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If you have a (low volume) device that was sold all over the world with different firmware you are particularly interested in all available stock firmwares and even hacked firmwares.
This is true in my case: MediaTek MT6575 + Lenovo A2107A.
What is cool... The power of Google and value of your fingerprint or ro.build.display.id and possibly other fields. With this information, Google found 2 or 3 very nice sources that gather hardware profiles.
http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?D=Lenovo+IdeaTab+A2107A-H&testgroup=system
http://usbhost.chainfire.eu/?search=A2107
http://www.srsroot.com/supported
Pretty cool. I now am quite certain the A2107A-F never had 4.0.4, just 4.0.3. Weird that this firmware seems to have run on SGH-t989 and GT-I9300 in just a few cases. OTG has never been successful on any of those firmwares? And I now know of more carriers that sold Lenovo A2107A-H with firmware specific for their "needs."
Check these fingerprints out:
Lenovo/A2107A-H/A2107A-H:4.0.4/IMM76D/A2107A_A404_400_001_121226_LAS:user/release-keys
Lenovo/A2107A-H/A2107A-H:4.0.4/IMM76D/A2107A_A404_301_006_130506_MOV:user/release-keys
Lenovo/SmartTabII7/SmartTabII7:4.0.4/IMM76D/A2107A_107_055_130124_VODA:user/release-keys
Lenovo/A2107A-H/A2107A-H:4.0.4/IMM76D/A2107A_A404_000_033_121011_ATT:user/release-keys
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I know what ATT is... it's US based AT&T. I know what VODA is... it's Vodafone.
Can anyone tell me what these carriers are: LAS MOV ?
Update:
For a round-a-bout reason I think MOV is Movistar Peru.
many many many ROMs , But , from where we can download it to try ?
i searched for it using Google , but with no result , and for the strange carriers , i try to find them roms to know what is it , but i found it in Chinese sites and you must have a paid membership with them to download .
i tried this :
A2107A-H_LeWa_MAK
and as i told you it is great except for the Chinese characters which i can not delete ,
i am looking for this :
A2107A-H_by_Velial39
but i never find it .
sam_pon said:
many many many ROMs , But , from where we can download it to try ?
i searched for it using Google , but with no result , and for the strange carriers , i try to find them roms to know what is it , but i found it in Chinese sites and you must have a paid membership with them to download .
i tried this :
A2107A-H_LeWa_MAK
and as i told you it is great except for the Chinese characters which i can not delete ,
i am looking for this :
A2107A-H_by_Velial39
but i never find it .
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Yes, I'm sure they are quite hard to find -- but at least we know they are out there. What a strange device we have, sam_pon -- so many custom models! I would pay a bounty to be able to test all it's stock roms. At least companies like Acer have "Service ROMs" for /sdcard/update.zip type installs. Lenovo is so frustrating, few OTAs only no downloads.
My recently purchased mobile phone is the THL T200, must of you may or may not have heard of it by now. I'm trying to get a proven procedure to safely update (upgrade) the actual O.S. installed in the phone (4.2.2) to the final >unifying version for android from Google< 4.4...
The manufacturer site thlmobilestore.com at their thlsupport site has not yet announced how to get it. I can only assume that Google is currently too busy trying to make it work with the big firms (Samsung, HTC, and LG) first before allowing Chinese companies to grab a piece of the cake.
I know for previous experiences that the first web site publishing software procedures and mobile settings is this one, so I decided to be the first asking for (prove-to-work) and detailed step-by-step ways to update the OS.
Please... any comment not-related to this specific phone or update procedures to 4.4 kit-kat try to post it on any other thread? I'm sure the moderators will agree with me irrelevant comments and interfering assumptions won't help.
Thanks and expecting to hear from one of you soon :cyclops:
Hi all
Just got myself an Asus TF103C and have been looking at other posts here like http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/asus-transformer-pad-tf103c-tablet-root-t2802995/page5
which helped me to root it.
However I have been reading elsewhere that perhaps a custom Lollipop ROM would help things work a bit smoother.
I have found a couple of pages which claim to outline a method taken from the pages of XDA (although I am so far unable to find it on here) and linking to file downloads that seem a bit suspect:
http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/asus-transformer-pad-tf103c-6409.html
and here:
http://lollipop500.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/upgradeupdate-transformer-pad-tf103c-to.html
Can anyone please advise me if these are likely to be legitimate or otherwise?
Many Thanks!
Northwinds said:
Hi all
Just got myself an Asus TF103C and have been looking at other posts here like http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/asus-transformer-pad-tf103c-tablet-root-t2802995/page5
which helped me to root it.
However I have been reading elsewhere that perhaps a custom Lollipop ROM would help things work a bit smoother.
I have found a couple of pages which claim to outline a method taken from the pages of XDA (although I am so far unable to find it on here) and linking to file downloads that seem a bit suspect:
http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/asus-transformer-pad-tf103c-6409.html
and here:
http://lollipop500.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/upgradeupdate-transformer-pad-tf103c-to.html
Can anyone please advise me if these are likely to be legitimate or otherwise?
Many Thanks!
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I think it's a fake. the first link promote a payment for download a file, the second is removed.
BTW I'm interest too to use a different room for my tf103c, but it seem that no ROM are available. I wonder if someway could disprove me.
Kind regards,
Luigi
I also think that it is a bogus rom.
I would like to get a new rom as well . I have the device rooted, but have been unable to get flash to work. I also cannot mount network locations. I think a new rom would lift the limitations set by this Asus rom.
PS- I have the Zenfone with a similar interface . I like it on my zenfone 5, not so much on this tablet.
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I'm also interested in getting stock Lollipop on my tf103c (k010). I don't know what asus did to make kitkat so buggy, I don't remember it crashing apps as much as the asus load does.
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I will like to have a custom rom as well. How would I go about porting one? I will love to learn on how to develop one.
I will look arround XDA although I have no idea where to start.
first you need to unlock bootloader, because you cannot flash custom kernel, only kernel signed using asus keys.
if you dont need other kernel for your rom, you must flash system partition, with root you have acess to system, but how d you want to flash system when you running another yet? i mean, you can acces system only when phone is running this system, becuse fastoot and recovery accepts only asus signed files.
Hello all...I'm a fellow victim of the OTA updates screwing us debloaters currently stuck in a boot-loop. I'm trying to recover my the past several years text notes containing all the medical details for my son's illness. Details on that can be found on my earlier post.
As a last ditch effort, I'm going to try flashing the factory firmware in hopes that I'll be able to snag them and then flash the latest firmware. My device is not rooted.
However, it's been many many years since I've done this and I've spent the day reading everything I could to ensure I don't screw this up and I have a few questions. The phone is under warranty and I really don't want to trip Knox.
First...I'm having trouble finding the correct firmware (I think? Yay AT&T!). Unfortunately, since I'm boot looping, I can't load the app to pull all the phone details now. But, when I pulled the phone details a little over a week ago trying to solve another issue, I made a note of what appears to be the baseband version: G991USQU5CVCC.
The only info I can find on it on AT&T's website, here: https://www.att.com/device-support/article/wireless/KM1428542/Samsung/SamsungSMG998U
I'm unable to find a download for it though. AT&T isn't available via Frija or Samloader.
However, if all my ADD-riddled reading today is correct, I should be able to get away with flashing one for the 1U1 version, right?
If not, anyone know where I can find the firmware that would work for the 1U version/G991USQU5CVCC?
If so, my thoughts are that my best chance of being able to it to stop looping long enough would be to flash the last-known-good version as opposed to the latest...this is doable, right? If that's correct, this is the one I've grabbed: https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s21/firmware/SM-G991U1/ATT/download/G991U1UEU5CVGB/1666245/
Also, regarding flashing...I'm reading it can be done via ADB sideload or cracked Odin...is one better/safer than the other?
Any other thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated too.
Thanks!
Hmmmm....so I just noticed in Android Recovery, it posts a build number. I'm showing RP1A.200720.012, which appears to be for the S20?!
The full build number is RP1A.200720.012.G991USQU5CVCC...which, apparently doesn't exist in Google.
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samfw.com
try finding firmware for your device here.
Be careful because you must select Bit/SW REV same as one on your phone, you can't downgrade it.
If you have latest firmware (A12) then your Bit/SW REV is 5
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Hmmmm....so I just noticed in Android Recovery, it posts a build number. I'm showing RP1A.200720.012, which appears to be for the S20?!
The full build number is RP1A.200720.012.G991USQU5CVCC...which, apparently doesn't exist in Google.
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It's not S20, it's S21. If you are not sure, you can even search firmware with your IMEI or SN on post above this
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It's not S20, it's S21. If you are not sure, you can even search firmware with your IMEI or SN on post above this
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Yup, I just had to figure out how it all worked...I was super-worried because I couldn't find 1U firmware for AT&T.
Buuut, guess what?!?!
Holy crap!! I got in!!!
I downloaded a newer version after flashing the current one didn't resolve it...just because...why not at this point?
It flashed successfully, did the same thing after initial reboot through...starts loading lock screen, flashing on/off randomly and reboot.
This time, however, it loaded into something different than the standard recovery menu. I don't remember the name, but, there was only 4 options.
Try Again
Delete App Data
View Logs
Shut Down
I decided to try the Delete App Data option as the data I was trying to get was in the download folder...not specifically part of an app...and it rebooted into Safe Mode without the glitch!! Previously, the glitch still happened in Safe Mode.
It went into what appeared to be a factory reset phone with the Get Started thing, connect to WiFi, permissions, restore data, etc. I skipped all that though, figuring it actually factory reset the phone and that I had officially lost this battle and would have to rebuild all my notes (something I had come to accept would probably be the case in this situation).
But! Once I went through that and got the main Safe Mode screen, I connected it back up to the laptop and EVERYTHING IS THERE!!!!!
I'm copying off now as I type this.
Thanks to you and iBowToAndroid for all your help with this...you guys saved me days/weeks of time to pull all the records and recreate my notes. Unsure how to tag iBowToAndroid on here...but, he helped me understanding the firmware/carrier stuff via DM.
@RiBBiTeDD I have moved this thread out of the Galaxy S21 ROMs, Kernels, and Other Development section. Please be aware that only development content is permitted in development sections, per the Rules for Posting in Development.
Additionally, I would like to remind you of XDA Rule 15:
15. Keep threads / posts on-topic
Whilst a minor amount of off-topic posting may be overlooked, the general rule is that your posts / threads must be relevant to the Forum / thread in which you are posting.
General Forums - For news and announcements relating to your device.
Q&A Help & Troubleshooting Forums - For all question / request threads and posts. If there is no Q&A Help & Troubleshooting forum, use the General Forum of the relevant device
Accessories Forum - For posts related to accessories relevant to the device
Development Forums (ones with the word development in the title) - For Developers to post release threads e.g. ROMs and Kernels including modifications to kernels, bootloaders, ROMs, etc., as well as R&D development discussion threads designed with an end goal
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Thank you.
I have an eu phone updated to the latest version and tried many things posted here and in other places, but no result.
That's why I'm here posting as a last resort before I give up.
I've tried to unlock the bootloader through many deep testing apks some couldn't install. Those I managed to install waited days and still says waiting to get approval...
After some searching here I found that those work for India and not the eu phones, but not sure.
Then I found here a guide to change region through engineer mode and then the app would work... After doing everything I was stuck on the decrypt method with error signature. I read the updated post for this method but still the same...
Is there a way to unlock the bootloader with a known current working method or not? Will there ever be?
Any other brands that would you suggest being root friendly in eu on their latest models? Or all current brands are not allowing to unlock the bootloader?
Please don't link any of the posts since I read them unless you think there is something I overlooked
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I have an eu phone updated to the latest version and tried many things posted here and in other places, but no result.
That's why I'm here posting as a last resort before I give up.
I've tried to unlock the bootloader through many deep testing apks some couldn't install. Those I managed to install waited days and still says waiting to get approval...
After some searching here I found that those work for India and not the eu phones, but not sure.
Then I found here a guide to change region through engineer mode and then the app would work... After doing everything I was stuck on the decrypt method with error signature. I read the updated post for this method but still the same...
Is there a way to unlock the bootloader with a known current working method or not? Will there ever be?
Any other brands that would you suggest being root friendly in eu on their latest models? Or all current brands are not allowing to unlock the bootloader?
Please don't link any of the posts since I read them unless you think there is something I overlooked
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Currently, the bootloader cannot be unlocked.
Spoiler: source
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