Got mine right from the local store today... Looking forward to root and recovery... Will more than likely be releasing a rom for this one as I did for the DX/D2
I can't wait to get rid of all this bloatware from my phone!
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
What garbage do you guys mean?
I got my Thunderbolt today - coming from an OG droid.. and I have to say, Sense 2.0 is freaking sweeeet.
The main garbage I see is stuff like rockband and a lot of other useless apps.
On a somewhat unrelated note -
Frankly I am having a hard time seeing why I would want to ROM this phone with CM 7 or something like that.
CM 7 makes sense for a crappy stock OS like the Droid but Sense is pretty sick.
Yeah, I do not use CM7 specifically to boost performance. I use CM7 because I would much rather be running Android 2.3.x Gingerbread built from AOSP rather than running an outdated version of Android (2.2) with Sense stacked on top.
Once you root and start flashing Cyanogen you do not need to worry about some OTA update coming that may break root...
I am also used to the additional functionality and customization allowed with CM7. I like to have control over my device and the ability to personalize and tweak any and every setting imaginable.
I liked CM7, but the lack of a good exchange email client on the stock Android operating system is a deal breaker for me. The HTC Sense exchange mail app is by far the best one out there, and I've spent around $60 trying several different pay versions and several free ones. None of them work as well as HTC does.
adb push psneuter /data/local/
adb push busybox /data/local/
adb push misc.img /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
adb shell
/data/local/psneuter
adb shell
/data/local/busybox md5sum /data/local/misc.img
dd if=/data/local/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
exit
adb reboot bootloader
adb push psneuter /data/local/
adb push busybox /data/local/
adb push wpthis /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/wpthis
adb shell
/data/local/psneuter
adb shell
/data/local/wpthis
exit
adb push hbooteng.nb0 /data/local/
adb shell
/data/local/busybox md5sum /data/local/hbooteng.nb0
dd if=/data/local/hbooteng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
/data/local/busybox md5sum /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
adb reboot bootloader
I've never rooted "manually" like this so I have a couple of questions.
I'm not entirely sure what an RUU is. I saw one site that said it stands for ROM Update Utility. Can someone explain what it is/does?
Why are there a set of two RUU links? The first (with the long name) and the second labeled "custom" RUUs. What's the difference and why would both be needed?
Thank you sirs.
Need help plz. I put the PG05IMG.zip on my sd card and followed the first temp rooting instructions then rebooted by issuing adb command. Then i selected bootloader option and it identified the PG05IMG file and starting checking it. After checking it, it does nothing, it just sits at the menu, and does not ask me to upgrade. Any ideas on this?