[ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jcase!!

[Eollie]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

First of all you sound like an arrogant nitwit. Insulting the OP who does this out of his spare time won't help your case at all.

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[00_wrath_00]

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That's great lol.

Sent from my MIUI OV.

 

[davidh44]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

I've spent a week with 2 OV phones now in multiple low-reception areas...one on ZV4 and one on ZV9 in side-by-side comparisons. Didn't make any difference at all in call quality or reception (both in actual use and looking at dBm). If I just looked at dBm at first glance and made my conclusion from there, I would've said ZV9 provided 3dBm better reception. But watching it over time, it would even out and go the other way as well within minutes.

I'm sure there's a lot of subjectivity going on (like when people claimed improvements before it was figured out that the radio-only update didn't actually do anything), but perhaps you need to be connected to a certain brand/type of tower for there to be an improvement.

 

[Dannemand]

@arp: It's hard to believe that you're really serious and not just trolling. If you cared to check more threads on this forum, I think you'd be awestruck by just how many helpful answers the target of you attack is posting almost daily - often in response to trivial, repeat questions from non-technical users like yourself.

But I guess frustration can make us all do stupid things.

Since you don't post details of your problem, I cannot help you there - as others already said.

I can tell you, though, that the steps posted by Jerry and jcase DO work perfectly. I ran the VMU update, not once, but FOUR times (I am testing some problems). Each time I rooted by simply copy-pasting the commands in the OP. The first time, there was a tiny mistake in one of the commands (adb missing), but Jerry promptly fixed that.

You ask if somebody found a better method for the technically challenged: well, a week ago (at least), brotherswing posted a separate thread with that exact title - using jcase & Jerry's steps, but packing them in an EVEN simpler form. I don't know how you could've missed that. It's in this same forum.

Good luck to you. With your phone as well as your social interaction in your life.

 

[dennyc23]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

I was able to root my OV using this root with no problems whatsoever. However, after a few days the play store is now telling me that super user has an update available. I'm wondering if i update super user am i going to run into any problems or should i be ok? Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[bigrickie77]

I updated my su and no problems so far.

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

I was able to root my OV using this root with no problems whatsoever. However, after a few days the play store is now telling me that super user has an update available. I'm wondering if i update super user am i going to run into any problems or should i be ok? Has this happened to anyone else?

I usually update su from su itself, and sometimes the Play Store tells me that there's an update when there isn't really one at all.

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[droidmyme]

I've spent a week with 2 OV phones now in multiple low-reception areas...one on ZV4 and one on ZV9 in side-by-side comparisons. Didn't make any difference at all in call quality or reception (both in actual use and looking at dBm). If I just looked at dBm at first glance and made my conclusion from there, I would've said ZV9 provided 3dBm better reception. But watching it over time, it would even out and go the other way as well within minutes.

I'm sure there's a lot of subjectivity going on (like when people claimed improvements before it was figured out that the radio-only update didn't actually do anything), but perhaps you need to be connected to a certain brand/type of tower for there to be an improvement.

Thank you for this.

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[kwknott]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

I used this method with no issues except for it failed the first time but that was my fault for typing a command wrong. If you read and enter commands exactly like in the op it works great. Used it 2 additional times on 2 other OV's with no issues. Thanks Jerry and jcase

 

[sellers86]

I love how anytime someone is a douche we all gang up and rip them to shreds but all joking aside these instructions are fool proof.

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[Dannemand]

I love how anytime someone is a douche we all gang up and rip them to shreds

I choose to believe that frustration simply got the better of him. That's no excuse - he could've just smashed his phone to smithereens like any normal person But I've done stupid things when I was about to explode in frustration over something.

 

[CuriousNoob]

I usually update su from su itself, and sometimes the Play Store tells me that there's an update when there isn't really one at all.

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The SU in IHO roms aren't updated to the latest.

The thing is, if something's not broken, there no need in fixing it

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[sellers86]

I choose to believe that frustration simply got the better of him. That's no excuse - he could've just smashed his phone to smithereens like any normal person But I've done stupid things when I was about to explode in frustration over something.

+1 i agree

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[glarepate]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

The SU in IHO roms aren't updated to the latest.

The thing is, if something's not broken, there no need in fixing it

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The alternate thing is, if you do something that exposes the breakage then you may wish that it had been pre-repaired.

Jes' sayin' ...

 

[rebel69ization]

I did the update, rerooted, restored my backup, and everything seems fine. The question I have is why doesn't the new radio version show up anywhere? Is it because im running a custom rom?

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[CuriousNoob]

What date is the rom?

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[CuriousNoob]

@Jerry, Do you think there will be a way to remove the radio.img in the future? Or a way to stop it from not letting me overclock past 600?

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[rebel69ization]

4/9/2012

 

[Missingbullet69]

Re: [ROOT] Virgin Mobile Security Update Now Rooted!!! Thanks jca

Help, a n00b (me) needs help. I keep getting stuck at the In -s permissions step. I've done a factory reset a couple of times, but it has not fixed the problem. Code from my terminal follows below. I used adb. Thanks a bunch to this awesome community!

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push flash_image /data/local/flash_ima
ge
1107 KB/s (9640 bytes in 0.008s)

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push VM670NH_recovery.img /data/local/
VM670NH_recovery.img
2941 KB/s (4200448 bytes in 1.394s)

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb push jcase_rootme.zip /sdcard/jcase_ro
otme.zip
4113 KB/s (640406 bytes in 0.152s)

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/flash_imag
e

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell rm /data/amit/*

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell In -s /dev/mtd/mtd2 /data/amit/A
MI304_Config.ini
In: permission denied

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

 

[CuriousNoob]

Try factory reset, then use a app like settings that make your phone turn sideways.

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