Recent content by bokkers

Some additional learnings today--- was running Malladus and about to nap this afternoon when I thought to backup using TWRP. Rebooted, then I think pressed Restore Defaults in TWRP which caused phone to hang ("updated partitions") and after rebooting, couldn't find the sdcard during backup. As...

After reading the various ROMs threads on xda/elsewhere, I liked AICP and Vanir but the former still has issues with GPS and the latter has issues with the gsapps (camera?) not bundled... anyway, just a few hours ago, decided to go with CleanROM, flashed and got stuck on the LG boot screen :(...

Ah, thank you.

Ok, this is gonna sound a bit silly but after staying past 3AM to get tethering to work, I woke up a few hours later and showed it to the wife who then takes out her iPhone 5c (we both got our phones the same time last week) and she easily enabled mobile hotspot on her phone! Sure, I did get the...

Thanks for the mobile hotspot tip, HD_Renegade! Am now able to tether. Mobile Hotspot modded to skip provisioning check (VZW) What worked for me were the steps mentioned by Kaiken in Page 3 of that thread: adb remount adb shell cd /system/app/ mv HotspotProvision.apk HotspotProvision.bak mv...

Thanks, all, still doing babysteps here... I was able to root my G2 but not without hiccups. First, I tried following the instructions here because the video made it look easy but then hit a snag-- when launching the root.bat file inside the ioroot package, adb would just hang and not list the...

First post, have zero experience rooting / flashing custom ROMs and have only used a stock HTC Evo / Sprint for the past couple years. I'm also feeling a little awkward asking these questions as I'm sure they've been answered countless times... but would really appreciate quick guidance. In...