Good For Enterprise and Flashing Jelly Bean

[Dr0me]

Hey there,

So I have a stock and locked VZW G Nex for my work phone and am insanely jealous of every one who has gotten jelly bean already as I have it on my Nexus 7 and know how much smoother / better it is. My question is as such. If I unlock my bootloader and flash a ROM such as bugless beast to get JB, then re lock the boot loader. Would my company mobile security app "GOOD" for enterprise be able to detect I have done so? Back when Imm76k leaked for the CDMA G nex, I used mempodroid to push the ZIP into cache and installed the update before the OTA and my email worked as if I was pure stock. This was likely because it was a leaked official build and the GSM version of the G Nex already had received 4.04 officially from google. So Since there are people who have the Google G Nex who have been pushed 4.1.1 I am hoping this will be the case as well. I am skeptical since it is a hacked ROM and not an official leaked build. Any thoughts? I am getting close to just doing it anyways and if it detects it I can just flash back to stock but I would lose my work email for a few days / hours so that wouldn't be ideal.

I am running Good on my Galaxy S. I'm not having any problems with it outside of the fact that it's a huge app that will chew up a boatload of the (limited) storage on the phone.

If you've already tried re-downloading and keep getting the same error I'd suggest you check your available storage. That app will take 25MB if memory servers.

I run a custom ROM largely because it gives me enough space to run Good and a few other large apps (Docs to go, Copilot, Yahoo Mail).

I found this but am still questioning if I should try it.

 

[pheatton]

I think it depends on how your IT Org has it setup. Ours will not let you run a rooted ROM at all and still access Good.

 

[Dr0me]

i am pretty certain they do not allow root.

what if i were to flash the room and then unroot and OEM lock?

would the rom stop working? thoughts?

 

[pheatton]

You would have to ask someone who knows ROMS better than I.

 

[ConTejas]

You would have to go back to the stock rom in the unrooting/relocking process. Honestly as long as the worst case scenario is not having email access for a few minutes (it doesn't take long at all using a toolkit) I was just unlock/root and flash the rom. See if you can access GOOD before setting anything else up and if you can't set it back to stock (again painless with the toolkit) and wait for a official leak or OTA. I'm sure you're very important and all but what's a few minutes hours without Enterprise email acess after business hours and/or on a day off. Also, did you try contacting that person who said it worked on a custom rom?

 

[Dr0me]

You would have to go back to the stock rom in the unrooting/relocking process. Honestly as long as the worst case scenario is not having email access for a few minutes (it doesn't take long at all using a toolkit) I was just unlock/root and flash the rom. See if you can access GOOD before setting anything else up and if you can't set it back to stock (again painless with the toolkit) and wait for a official leak or OTA. I'm sure you're very important and all but what's a few minutes hours without Enterprise email acess after business hours and/or on a day off. Also, did you try contacting that person who said it worked on a custom rom?

it was a very old thread and they have released updates since then. Also to pheatton's point, diff companies have different good policies.

It is not as easy as you make it out as i have to request a pin from the good admin when you try to install the app. and if it detects root or a custom rom and removes email capability from my phone it might happen at a bad time and i happen to be extremely busy at work right now (I am a CPA). I think i am going to install a custom rom on my nexus 7. and relock and unroot. then try to install good and if it works for a few days i will do the same on my phone.

 

[ConTejas]

Cool that's why I suggested doing it during off hours or your days off. Sounds like a good plan though. BTW I am a CPA and a CFA but I trade treasury securities. Congrats, it's a major accomplishment. I just found out quickly that I absolutely despise acounting, especially tax accounting.

 

[Aguaski]

Another financial guy here working for a mutual fund giant. My company also uses Good, and I have the same limitations. It was a huge pain dealing with the issues of 4.01 while Verizon drug their feet on the 4.04 OTA. The common response on these forums was just root and do the update yourself. There are those of us that cannot root without limiting work email. I have no fear of rooting my phone but I can't. Keep us posted on what you do as I will be watching.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Dr0me]

Another financial guy here working for a mutual fund giant. My company also uses Good, and I have the same limitations. It was a huge pain dealing with the issues of 4.01 while Verizon drug their feet on the 4.04 OTA. The common response on these forums was just root and do the update yourself. There are those of us that cannot root without limiting work email. I have no fear of rooting my phone but I can't. Keep us posted on what you do as I will be watching.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

I will def keep you posted but I realized that the nexus 7 is not good certified yet so i wouldnt be able to use it as my guinea pig until it is.

I would like to point out that we do not have to wait for the OTA, we simply need a leaked official build. Once one of those comes out we can unlock, flash the update, then relock and while we may be off the update path we will be running 4.1.X long before the OTA push.