How to Root HTC One, Unlock Bootloader, Backup and Install a Custom Recovery (Using TWRP)

HTC one is indeed one of the monsters mobile phone right now. It has everything we need and no one has ever doubted it. So on this tutorial i will show you how to root, unlock bootloader and install a custom recovery using TWRP on the phone. For those who did not know about the advantage of rooting device can go to this post.

To Root Your Phone, You Will Need the Following

• HTC One drivers, which are included with HTC Sync Manager.
• Android Forums Mini SDK, which can be found in the second post on this thread.
• The latest TWRP recovery .img, which can be downloaded here. You may also want to rename it twrp.img for ease of installation later.

Step 1: Prepare Your Files
Extract the Mini SDK .zip file to a folder anywhere on your computer, then copy the twrp.img file to this folder. I'll be using C:\sdk-tools. Now, copy the SuperSU .zip file to your phone, either with AirDroid or via USB.

Step 2: Unlock Your Bootloader with HTC Dev
Next, head on over to HTC Dev and unlock your HTC One's bootloader using their instructions or our previous softModder tutorial. Our guide is for the EVO 4G LTE, but the process is the same.

Step 3: Install TWRP
Power off your device, then press and hold Power and Volume Down until you're in the bootloader menu. Highlight FASTBOOT and press Power. You should see Fastboot USB highlighted in red.

Open a command prompt on your computer and navigate to your SDK directory. Type "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" and hit Enter.

Step 4: Backup Your Stock ROM
On your phone, highlight BOOTLOADER and press Power.
This time, select RECOVERY and press Power to boot into TWRP.

Tap Backup and swipe to confirm. You can restore this backup if anything goes wrong by selecting Restore in TWRP's main menu.

Step 5: Install SuperSU
In TWRP's main menu, tap Reboot. It will tell you that you're not rooted and ask you to install SuperSU, so swipe to confirm. When you reboot your phone, you should see a notification that you need to install the SuperSU app. Open the notification and select TWRP, since the app from Google Play only works with S-OFF.

That's it! For most people, the next step is installing a custom ROM or apps that require root.

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Download S4 ROM for Samsung Galaxy S3 [ROM][AROMA][DEODEX]

Are you ready for a new one? DMod V6 is the ROM you were waiting for! We worked hard on it, you won't be disappointed: brand new graphics with the WIP S4 theme,new features,improved AROMA installer and, as always, speed and great battery life.
This time however we went further and we decided to make a "gift" to all the S3 Mini owners: now everyone will be able to make his own DMod by using our git repository. We will also consider 3rd party fixes, new features and more, in the Android open source spirit.
Links you say? Scroll down to "Downloads" and you'll find 'em

Features:
v6 built up from scratch on XXAMD3 ROM and kernel -- Heavily DEBLOATED and DEODEXED
Pay attention - WIPE ROM
AROMA Installer - you can customize the entire installation process!
Multi CSC package installable separately
Almost FULL S4 Theme!
18 Colors Ink Effect Mod + 4way Reboot with @dolar4ik 's russian translations and fixes
Ice Cream Sandwich animations instead of JB ones - your phone will fly!
Galaxy S4 Icons,Fonts, Sounds, Wallpapers and some Apps! More details below
Ported stuff:
- Galaxy S3 Gallery
- Galaxy S4 flare lockscreen! - disable ripple effect to use it
- Galaxy Note 2 Paper Artist
- Galaxy S4 Theme for some stock apps
- Galaxy Note 2 Popup Browser
- Galaxy S4 latest Samsung Apps
- Galaxy S4 Keyboard
- Galaxy S4 Samsung Link
- Galaxy S4 Themed S-Voice
- Galaxy S4 Group Play
- Torch widget from Note2 (with 3 different light intensities)
Inverted YouTube with screen off playback!! -UPDATED
Re-arranged status bar toggles in a smarter way, removed the useless ones
Tweaked gps.conf
New 4.1.6 Play Store!
New DTweaks in build.prop + init.d scripts & 4cyl turbo scripts by exit_only
New Bravia Engine 3 ported, display looks even sharper!
Ported xLoud and ClearAudio for a great sound experience
DEFINETELY disabled OTA service and removed "Updates" from settings
Added a statusbar icon when NFC is on
Enabled sub-symbols on stock keyboard - Long press to insert symbol
Colorized days in S-Planner
Phone and Contacts MODs:
- In-call vibration for notifications enabled
- Disabled phone number auto-formatting
- Removed contacts joining limit
Email MODs:
- Inverted email app from black to white - much more readable
Messages MODs
- No MMS conversion,no contact limit, real timestamps with sent time instead of received
- Enabled split view in landscape
- Screen on/off toggle, vibration and signature
- Group messaging
- No SMS hour limit
- Enabled Scheduled messages
- Enabled MMS download even with data off
- Enabled folders for messages
Camera MODs:
- Added shutter sound toggle in settings
- Camera is available during a call
Browser MODs:
- Enabled emojis in stock browser
- Added confirmation prompt when exiting from browser
- Home page instead of about:blank when opening a new tab
-Added "Exit" button to browser in menu

Screenshots:

Instructions:

1 - Download the ROM
2 - Put the zip file in your internal/ext Sd card
3 - Reboot in recovery (CWM,TWRP)
4 - Flash the ROM
5 - Follow the instructions on the AROMA installer
6 - Wait for the process to finish and reboot

Download:

Bitbucket.org
Yandex.disk
Goo.im
4shared

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How to Flash Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Jelly Bean Using Android Revolution HD [ROM]

Download Android Revolution HD 3.0 [ROM] for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with Android 4.1.1. Thanks to XDA-forum members who are always making progress on developing such a great development for the Android users. On this article i will explain a little new ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, as the latest and the successor of Note 1.

As we already know that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is released with the latest Android OS 4.1.1 Jelly Bean coming with great features and performances. There are already few devices that prepared to taste this Jelly Bean. Furthermore, for those who want to get more great performances can use this ROM which is already available for downlod on the link below.

Android Revolution HD 3.0 for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is very fast than the original os, it is look stable and many more advantages you can get from this ROM once installed on your Note 2. These are some comments from the users who already tried the ROM on their Note 2:

Users experience with Android Revolution HD

"My phone is now perfectly smooth, fast, stable. I do not expect much more from my phone!"

DarkAdrien

"This release is amazing! ROM feels super fast! Great job Mike & the team! (...) Never noticed any lag. 1 word: brilliant."

Selec1

"Feels a lot smoother in use - scrolling, swiping between sense screens. Much nicer feel. This is a real good one, Mike. Many thanks "

dsm52

About the ROM

System details:

• Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) - latest official Samsung N7100XXALJ3 firmware
• This is improved version of stock ROM - no visual changes!
• Very fast, clean & stable!
• Multi-language (WWE)
• Full Arabic and Hebrew languages support! (ICS feature)
• For Samsung Galaxy Note 2
• Thanks to Samsung for the base firmware

Included kernel details:

• Stock kernel (the most stable)
• Possibility to choose Perseus custom kernel in AROMA installer

ROM details:

• Removed software (CPU) rendering - full Exynos 4 Quad (GPU) rendering
• Fully optimized and tweaked
• ROOT (su + SuperSu Permissions - Thanks to chainfire)
• Unsecured boot.img
• Newest BusyBox
• RAM optimizations
• System signatures check enabled for system security and safety
• Improved virtual memory management
• Speed optimizations
• Enabled GPU UI rendering
• Data, cache and system partitions mounting tweaks
• Bloatware applications removed
• All /system applications updated to latest available
• All /data applications updated to latest available
• Improved camera performance
• Improved CPU governors performance
• Most optimal system scheduler
• Disabled kernel debugging for better performance
• Zipaligned (Improved RAM management)
• Zipalign on boot (for user applications on data partition)
• Fully de-odexed
• init.d scripts (BusyBox run-parts) support
• Auto init.d permissions set on boot
• sysro/sysrw commands support
• Excellent battery life!
• Improved EXT4 performance
• You can replace Samsung boot animation with any custom one (or use ICS default)
• OpenVPN support
• Most up-to-date system files permissions
• Adobe Flash Player support for Jelly Bean
• Support almost 24h a day
• ...and many more!

You need:

• Samsung Galaxy Note 2
• Custom Recovery

How to flash:

• Download ROM and place it on your virtual SD card
• Download "Super Wipe" script & place it on your SD card (optionally if coming from earlier version of my ROM, obligatory if coming from stock or other custom ROM)
• Boot your phone in recovery mode (vol up + home + power)
• In main menu, select "install zip from sdcard"
• Select "choose zip from sdcard" and browse to the location of "Super Wipe" script
• Once again select "choose zip from sdcard" and browse to the location of Android Revolution ROM
• After flashing process is complete, reboot the device

Changelog

Android Revolution HD 3.0

--- release date: 23 October 2012 ---

• Updated modem
• Multi csc - LJ3 set to EUR (Thanks to ::indie::!)
• Other minor changes and fixes

- Super Wipe or Wipe inside AROMA (saves your internal SD-card) is highly recommended due to new base!

Downloads

(Remember to check MD5 Checksum before flashing)

Android Revolution HD 3.0

--- MD5 Checksum: 2221BA4474B77E5DDC19676DA3BFC7CD ---

Super Wipe

--- This script will erase and format your data (including Internal SD Card), system and cache partition ---

--- Your External SD Card will remain untouched FAT32 and it's recommended to leave it like that ---

--- Your Internal SD Card (/data/media) will be wiped ---

--- You need to copy ROM .zip file to your External SD Card before using Super Wipe ---

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Samsung Galaxy S II and S III Get to Join Android 4.1 Jelly Beans Now

Several days ago, Google has announced the new version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which will be available on Galaxy Nexus 7 officially. However, XDA developers have also been hard at work porting this newesr version of Android to their favorite smartphones, including to the HTC One X, which can be upgraded to this Jelly Bean yesterday.

Now, the member of xda-forum also working hard to put the Jelly Bean into Samsung Galaxy SII and Samsung Galaxy SIII. They have succeed to put the system into the devices but there are several buggies on the devices waiting to get impoved yet. Even the ROM is alpha, but its ok to try on your device but you have to know that it might damage your device.

Nevertheless, both ROMs are stable enough for you to flash and enjoy them on your devices, if you are into custom ROMs. Here’s a video an XDA member has made showcasing how the Galaxy S II handles Jelly Bean. It indeed looks awesome the device using the latest version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

For those who want to try to upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the guide from here.

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