Recent content by ckn71

Re: why is rooting so hard? That's exactly what I'm facing. Had my old phone rooted and flashed. I tried to stay away from it on my new (well, year old) phone, but last week I broke down and wanted to customize it. But since the last stock update it can't get rooted anymore. Very disappointing...

Or to rephrase the question, why do manufacturers make it so hard? I am under the impression that the phone I bought from the carrier is my phone. Therefore I should be able to put any android version (ROM) on it I see fit. Why can't I? I read somewhere (not sure if I could find it again) that...

Ok, I'm somewhat confused. Well, not really but here it is: I am LOCKED and NOT rooted. Android 4.1.2 / System 98.18.94.XT907.Verizon.en.US Recently I tried to root the phone with the intention of flashing CM on it, but I got nowhere using motofail, motochopper and RazrM utility and everything...

I think the real issue is not the user. It's the fact that some apps give you the option to backup data from the internal memory to the SD card. But instead of the data ending up on the actual SD card, it ends up on sdcard0, which is not the SD card at all.