Re: [LUG] Free up my Galaxy Ace 3

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and as a PS. There are quite a few guides as to how to root a phone using linux and install clockworkmod, which you can then use to install a custom ROM, cyangenmod etc, from your phone. The android-tools-adb package means you don't need the android SDK and don't need to do everything in the platform-tools sub directory of the SDK. I am no command line wizard, but figuring out what to do took about an hour, mostly googling, and the process itself minutes.

This guide is for the nexus 4, but I imagine its not so different for other recent android phones, just the choice of ROM. The adb commands are exactly the same as for the windows command line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfmulWBobTQ&list=PLfTQXsCVD8iJfLjZGBSiOfu7Hp5nLssVU

S

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On 12.03.2014 17:02, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:

On 12 Mar 2014 14:55, "Philip Hudson" <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Very, very reluctantly, I'm about to give up on the quest to free up
> my phone. It seems to require using Chinese-language Android software
> and/or software that runs on MS Windows. Very frustrating and
> annoying. OK Google, you win this one.
>

It took quite some digging and trying things out with the potential to brick my phone (HTC Sensation) but I did eventually find the tools for Linux that let you communicate with the phone over USB during boot (if you boot to the boot menu).

I'll have a dig around and see if I can find them on my laptop and if they have a link to their origins - there might be one for the Galaxy Ace.

Grant

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