My dad has the Sanyo Zio, and I'm looking to speed it up

patass · 5th May 2011, 04:43 AM

My dad has the Sanyo Zio, and I'm looking to speed it up

No offense to anyone here, but I cant even fiddle with his phone for more than 30 seconds before I get frustrated by it's sluggishness and just hand it back to him. It's phones like that that prevented me from buying an Android phone for so long, but now I have the Evo and love it.

So, what can I do to help him out here? It's fully updated. Mostly I'd want to look into some sort of overclock and removing the sprint bloatware. Nothing fancy, just something to make it more functional.

Fate43 · 5th May 2011, 06:04 AM

First and foremost you need to root the phone using universal androot or z4 one click root.

Get root explorer to remove the bloatware. Once it is installed open up root explorer navigate to data/FLEX and remove bloatware.

Then you can start speeding up the phone using sysctl config app in the market. We have a thread with recommended settings floating around here somewhere. VM Heap tool and BladeBuddy to turn off stagefright, you can also use apps like SD speed increase to gain a lil speed from your sd card. After doing all of that and dialing the settings in the phone should run like a dream.

Mattix724 · 5th May 2011, 09:15 PM

Just don't brick it. We will not take liability in the case that the phone no longer functions properly or if the battery blows up or any thing that happens from modifying the phone.

Now before you go buck wild with your dad's phone please read more about rooting and sysctl but first question is, cricket or sprint?

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Fate43 · 5th May 2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Mattix724

but first question is, cricket or sprint?

This should answer your question:

lol

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Originally Posted by patass

removing the SPRINT bloatware.

Mattix724 · 5th May 2011, 10:36 PM

Thanks fate guess I missed that. Can't do as much as the cricket Zio.

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IVXX · 13th May 2011, 12:30 PM

I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.

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pyraxiate · 13th May 2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by IVXX

I never had issues with the Zio mine was great on speed an UI, rootedfrom day one. I got a semi bricked one for free im trying to flash it back as it out performs the Optius...though nothing seems to work. Ive tried booting it at least 4-5 ways. Ive used original rom, custom rom, ive tried pushing the images for boot through usb as well. Anyone got any ideas? Id love make some some custom mods for it.

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Please tell me you arent trying to push the roms / themes from here on XDA. They are cricket images and wont work on sprint.

Aside from that, you may need to get someone with a working sprint zio and try to perform a nand backup from a fresh hard reset that you can hopefully restore. I dont even know if CWM recovery will work for sprint but read the thread here and give it a shot to see if it boots.