Android Root Thread

[Crzwaco]

Guys girls is it posible to root a windows phone and put android on it?

[TheAvenged87]

Guys girls is it posible to root a windows phone and put android on it?

Yes, you should be able to. Here's a thing I found (about three years old, but just to demonstrate the concept) about doing that. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/running...id-on-windows/

[matt]

So I have an issue with my phone these days that if I lose signal, it just doesn't come back until I reboot the phone, in the meantime it drains my battery super fast.

I have an idea that I should be updating my baseband and that I should do some extra backups, but this seems to be dangerous territory.

Anyone have any advice?

[Dohc-WP]

Decided to install android 5.1.1 lollipop on my dads galaxy SII I9100, used the cyanogenmod 12.1 rom, the phone is now operating faster than my mom's S4 and everything seems to work perfectly no issues, and thats not even the final stable build of the rom.

its a shame android is so fragmented my mom's S4 has not even received the lollipop update yet and google has already announced and started rolling out android M beta's.

[mottamort]

I was able to update my S4 to 5.0.1 using I think the "official" russian version and Odin. Did this before handing it over to my gf, and had to unroot it hehe. It didn't even have any language issues or dodgy russian-labelled bloatware, quite happy.

Now I has me a SOny Xperia z3 compact, and debating whether I should root it so soon... Also never rooted a Sony before, only samsungs.

[Tydmors]

Just in case someone was looking into reverting back to the stock ROM here is a link i found, i've not tried it yet but the mixed reviews in the comments seems to be mostly positive.

[matt]

Just in case someone was looking into reverting back to the stock ROM here is a link i found, i've not tried it yet but the mixed reviews in the comments seems to be mostly positive.

I actually did that and it worked fine. Just make sure you get the right firmware for your country. I was really loving the CM and was up to Lollipop, but I was having connection problems, probably because mt S3 mini isn't supported on the official Cyanogenmod, so I had to get an unofficial version.

Thinking I should try it again soon though.

[Tydmors]

I actually did that and it worked fine. Just make sure you get the right firmware for your country. I was really loving the CM and was up to Lollipop, but I was having connection problems, probably because mt S3 mini isn't supported on the official Cyanogenmod, so I had to get an unofficial version.

Thinking I should try it again soon though.

Thanks Matt, that was one of the things i was wondering, which of the 4 SA options do you take, perhaps the vodafone one, but that might be branded or something.

[matt]

Thanks Matt, that was one of the things i was wondering, which of the 4 SA options do you take, perhaps the vodafone one, but that might be branded or something.

Ah I had figured it out somehow, I'll try find sources again. What phone do you have?

PS: I used Odin 3.07

[matt]

Thanks Matt, that was one of the things i was wondering, which of the 4 SA options do you take, perhaps the vodafone one, but that might be branded or something.

Looks like XFA might be the unlocked ROM according to this
http://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7920