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Once a manufacturer abandons supporting the device, your only choice is rooting it, unlocking its bootloader (if possible) and installing custom ROMs.
Google only releases the Android source code into AOSP (Android Open Source Project,) and has no say whether or not the manufacturer or carrier will update a given device. The only exception is the Nexus ...
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It primarily means that the boot loader is unlocked so it is much easier to upload ROM's for testing. Additionally the default installation will be the original AOSP version of the code and include root access to the phone's software.
It does not mean that the hardware is a "test" model. It's a fully developed phone. What it doesn't have is more important ...
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Your phone is almost certainly not permanently bricked. Chances are you can boot into recovery to flash a new ROM. Worst case, you'll have to flash the phone back to stock with RSD Lite.
That said, there's really no way to unroot the phone or flash a stock ROM without having to re-install your apps. You can try flashing a stock ROM without wiping data ...
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As Uri Herrera commented, you'll need to root your phone to be able to install custom firmware, and then install a community aftermarket firmware, like CyanogenMod. Most likely the open source community will keep updating the firmware (ROM) even after OEM has lost interest.
How to root: You can refer to a nice guide by LifeHacker - most likely it can be ...
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They are both Linux, but the AOSP kernel is a very standardized, general Linux kernel provided by Google that requires minimal modification to work across different devices, to make it easier for manufacturers to get Android working.
The various modifications made by manufacturers to their own kernels relate to the different hardware found in these devices. ...
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The problem is that wiping data requires to overwrite it. On todays devices with lots of in-device flash memory and large SD-cards this can take a while - up to several hours. This leaves a lot for the attacker to interrupt this process and try again. Therefore wiping triggered by false login attempts is only reasonable if your data is encrypted. Then you ...
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If it's not rooted and not running a custom ROM, a factory reset will reset everything back to stock and wipe the internal SD card. If you also wipe the external SD card, you will have a clean slate.
Checkout Chapter Update and Reset, Section Resetting HTC EVO 3D, (Page 209) of the manual: ...
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You don't have to install a custom ROM, you can use a stock one. There's usually rooted versions of stock ROMs readily available for most devices, with the only difference between them and a completely stock ROM being the addition of Superuser and the su binary (and often busybox). If your device is supported by a simple software rooting method (HTC stuff ...
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There's a guide on Rooting Xperia S ICS and GB over at XDAs. Not having any XPeria device, I cannot verify -- but the comments on the thread confirm it working. It does not even require the bootloader to be unlocked.
Requirements for that method:
Windows
Net framework 3.5 or later
Preparation:
Application Settings: [Unknown sources] checked {Allowed}
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Go to this XDA thread and download the newest firmware for your region. Download Odin for Windows (search for "Heimdall" if you are on Linux). Then do the following:
Put your phone into Download mode
Remove the battery
Hold VolumeDown plus the Home key
Reinsert the battery.
Let go of the power button only about 1 second after the white device logo ...
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The steps you will have to take to restore to original state (Stock) if you are rooted
Unroot using z4root (if you are rooted)
you may not even have to do this with flashing the stock rom.
Download the Stock ROM for the Defy
http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy
You will need RDSLite to flash, and AFAIK, you can only flash the UK version as 2.51 builds ...
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Provided you haven't rooted your phone or changed the kernel, a simple Factory Reset will do what you require.
Tap Settings.
Scroll down and tap Privacy.
Tap Factory Data Reset.
Tap Reset Phone.
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You'll need to download official firmware. You can find it by searching "nexus one stock 2.x rom", and XDA might be better than Google. I'd also look up how to use the Android SDK to flash it, probably using flashboot through ADB. I have a Galaxy S which uses another tool, so I can't help with more detail without looking that up myself ;)
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The cause of these problems is a bug in Google Framework Services, at least in 2.1 and 2.2.
I have been able to fix it temporarily by clearing the cache for all Google apps -- GFS, Talk, Voice, GMail, Market, etc. -- but I do not believe there is a permanent fix. Perhaps in 2.3, I don't have it on my phone yet.
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You should try a factory reset before trying to reflash the phone. AFAIK you need to unlock the bootloader (voiding your warranty) to flash a ROM, even on the Nexus S.
Instructions:
Turn the power off. If your Nexus S is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it
Hold the Volume Down button
Press and release the Power button
You are now ...
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This menu button is a backwards compatibility feature. It's displayed on all apps that say they are designed for a version of Android from when Android devices had physical menu buttons. (That's Froyo or earlier.) The Android system can't tell whether such an app needs the menu button or not, so it has to display it to make sure the app is usable on newer ...
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If you install a completely original ROM for the device, it will be unrooted. flashing the correct Stock ROM for your device will revert it back to its original factory state. Remember to Wipe both the Cache and Data when you flash.
in the post you linked it also says:
Notice: These are NOT rooted, and contain radio/hboot rom updates
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From what I've seen this is not generally very easy to do. I know that replacing the icons and such requires modifying the underlying framework-res.apk file, and I've never really seen anything that modifies the functionality of the bar itself (aside from custom ROMs with custom frameworks and the like). I'm not completely positive on this, however.
If you ...
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Stock Gallery is a system app which can't be disabled if you are not rooted. Titanium Backup Pro can freeze it, but only if it gets root access.
Rooting will violate your warranty, but you can always get your warranty back after un-rooting device. There's no way for anyone to catch you after that. In case, you are unable to find an un-rooting method, you ...
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If all you need is root access, try flashing the Siyah kernel via ODIN. Ensure you get the S2 version, as the dev has one for the S3 as well. Also, you will need the TAR version as you will flash it via ODIN (at least for the first time). Later instances, you can get the ZIP format and flash it via CWM (ClockworkMod recovery, which is built into the kernel). ...
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Before you un-root I'd recommend upgrading to the Stable release of CM 6.1 which may fix your problems. If you do unroot you can use Appbrain to reload all your apps but you'll still have to re-enter in all your settings and what not. If you stay rooted and use Titanium Backup you can reload all your apps from your SD card with all their settings intact.
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Here's a full stock ROM for the Nexus S (via XDA): http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespo/f182cf141e6a.signed-soju-ota-102588.f182cf14.zip (MD5: 3e8908941043951da5a34bb2043dd1a0)
You should be able to name that update.zip and put it in the root of your SD card; upon reboot it will be installed.
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It's an official update, so the signature should be perfectly valid. There are a couple things to check:
You didn't mention where you saved the update.zip. Make sure it's in the /sdcard/ folder -- try viewing it via a file manager on your phone to ensure it's there.
I assume you've done this already, but make sure your bootloader is unlocked.
The ...
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Cyanogenmod has a barebones list of apps and the relative safety of uninstalling each. While it's for CM ROMs, the list will be pretty similiar for the DROID.
FYI, if Verizon ever releases any OTA updates in the future for your phone, they won't install if you don't have the stock apps installed. Usually you're better off 'freezing' them with Titanium ...
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If you are just looking for toggle buttons in the notification bar I would check out Widgetsoid, it's a very full-featured app that will let you create widgets or notification toggles of whatever you want.
If you are looking to change the way the notification bar looks, you will need to have root access and install a theme, which would void your warranty ...
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No - as you've correctly ascertained, a custom ROM is most likely your best bet. Also, the bounce effect is a Samsung "feature" - by default Android uses the glow effect to indicate the end of a list. I'm also unsure if this is a Froyo only feature, because IIRC, one of the UI updates was the glow effect, which Samsung did incorporate into their later ROM ...
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You can use an alternative launcher like Launcher Pro / ADW / Go Launcher etc. All of these have options for hiding apps from the app drawer.
Unfortunately, the Gallery app will still appear in SHARE and SEND TO menus in various apps. No way around that. If you would rather certain folders remain invisible to the Gallery app, place a blank file named ...
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Two major cons to simply using a different launcher Vs. a whole new ROM:
Custom ROMs often offer a later version of Android than is available for your device from a manufacturer or carrier. No amount of launchers will give you the newer functionality of latest OS versions.
Very often removing manufacturer/carrier "bloat" is not as easy as deleting some ...
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Technically, as a root user, you can achieve every exclusive thing what a custom ROM offers. But, its not always as easy as replacing home launcher. What if you need to replace kernel for better overclocking support...
A custom ROM is actually pre-cooked out-of-box firmware packaging (with specialized feature). Remember, popular custom ROMs (like Cyanogen ...
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There is a zip file that is posted in this video description that you can flash via Clockworkmod or your favorite custom recovery that will revert your device completely to stock (including removing the recovery image and such).
The video goes through the process step-by-step, for your convenience, but it's basically flashing that file via CWM, and then ...
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