The San Diego hacking topic - root progress etc.

[Guest i am not a hacker]

Can you not revert to orange ROM?

[Guest]

Nope. How could we? There is no update zip for the orange rom, to revert we need unlock bootloader and a rom dump of orange rom.

Edited September 11, 2012 by Guest

[Guest rickywyatt]

the only way to go back to orange rom will be once thay put out ics

[Guest]

the only way to go back to orange rom will be once thay put out ics

Do you think they are likely to go with the update.zip method like lava ?

[Guest rickywyatt]

yes thay should

[Guest vermat17]

Guys do you think it's a possibility now that Orange is officially becoming EE (correct me if I'm wrong btw), they will take a different stand on unlocking the bootloader??

[Guest domenico lamberti]

from my understanding, Orange And T-Mobile are still 2 seperately owned and run companies, and EE is a third brand completely different, so i doubt they will, but hopefully they leave an exploit in the ICS firmware and we cant get root or something, its a start

[Guest scuzzbucket]

EE is the trading name of the combined Orange/T-Mobile company. I've heard they plan on opening combined shops too. Probably going to, eventually, completely get rid of Orange/T-Mo branding.

[Guest glossywhite]

"Everything Everywhere"? Oh the irony, considering the signal level is "Nothing anywhere" on either network! :D

[Guest The Soup Thief]

Intel shows off Jelly Bean on Medfield! Crumbs http://www.pcworld.com/article/262249/intel_completes_porting_android_41_to_smartphones_with_its_chips.html

Obv "Oranges Everywhere" will throw some sand in the machinery and slow things up a little, but it augurs well for future Medfield devices...

[Guest i am not a hacker]

Yeah jelly bean has been ported http://www.talkandroid.com/131758-android-4-1-jelly-bean-now-ported-to-intel-chips/

[Guest domenico lamberti]

Glossywhite i get either T-Mobile or Orange Signal everywhere i go, in the south east of the UK atleast i cant speak for up north, but here its great

Edited September 13, 2012 by domenico lamberti

[Guest BlueMoonRising]

Glossywhite i get either T-Mobile or Orange Signal everywhere i go, in the south east of the UK atleast i cant speak for up north, but here its great

I get a good signal all over the East of Scotland, better than my son when he was on VodaCanNotfone.

I've noticed that what Glossywhite likes to call "teasing" is ALWAYS negative, he really needs to lighten up a bit.

[Guest rickywyatt]

i what to no how paul can look thow the intel severs

[Guest boristhespie]

http://www.slashgear.com/intel-wraps-up-android-4-1-port-for-medfield-smartphones-13247424/

[Guest Immortal7]

I managed to have a chat to one of the Orange advisors online.... here's how it went:

Welcome to Orange online chat. One of our advisors will be with you as soon as possible.

You're now chatting to Paul.

Paul: Hello, you're chatting to Paul. I am part of the dedicated Orange Online Sales Team. How can I help you with your new order?

Paul: Hello Mike

mike: Hi, It's not a new order but I own a San Diego

mike: I have a question

Paul: May I know your query?

mike: Yeah, I would like to know when the software update is due, can you help me with that?

Paul: Mike, it is expected to be available by end of this year.

Paul: Probably by November.

mike: Can you be anymore specific? I have heard rumours of it being available this month?

Paul: It's will not be available this month as there are no updates yet.

mike: I see. Would you be able to confirm a possible update to Jellybean? I have read that Intel have ported it to there devices

Paul: Jellybeans, updates will be available with in 2 months for sure, so it will be better to wait for the Jelly beans.

mike: Ok, thanks for your help.

Paul: My pleasure Mike.

Paul: Is there anything else I can help you with?

Not sure what to make of it, I'm guessing he's confusing Jellybean with ICS?

[Guest glossywhite]

I think he means BEANS:

[Guest technomole]

Seeing as there's no ics for the osd as yet, I though't I'd post some observations of my phone since I stuck the xolo update on it.

For a start there's a load of extra space, which although I expected some extra mb's here and there I wasn't expecting quite as much as I seem to have and I actually have extra apps to what I had before I used the update.

The phone seems more responsive, not that it was very laggy anyway, but now it's pretty quick when doing most things, even when I have loads of stuff going on.

There has been mention of the phone forgetting to connect to wireless networks, which I myself had experienced, but it doesn't do it now, so I wonder if it might have been something to do with the orange bloat ? has anyone else found this.

And finally the battery seems to last longer, and not only that I'm saving a little on data, which I assume is down to the lack of orange apps attempting to use a data connection.

I'm now wondering what else might improve with ics :D

[Guest Ribs85]

There has been mention of the phone forgetting to connect to wireless networks, which I myself had experienced, but it doesn't do it now, so I wonder if it might have been something to do with the orange bloat ? has anyone else found this.

I've never had this. Running stock Orange firmware, customised as much as Android lets me :-)

Would be interesting to see a xolo updated phone side-by-side with a stock phone. I wonder how much performance can be gained by replacing the launcher etc. without changing the firmware.

[Guest vermat17]

Just wondering if the root method from @bin4ryDigit that Paul posted might work on the OSD once it gets ICS?? Didn't Paul say it rooted his bootloader locked Nexus 7??

[Guest Ribs85]

Anyone tried this :

http://www.unlockroot.com/

found it on xda. Has some 2.3.7 devices listed as working.

[Guest i am not a hacker]

Well in the next 2 weeks we will be receiving ICS from XOLO (don't know when from Orange), so we could try this.

http://www.talkandroid.com/132311-new-universal-root-method-promises-to-root-most-ics-and-jelly-bean-devices/

[Guest vermat17]

Looks promising guys, it seems ICS opens up a whole new world of possibilities for root :D

[Guest tilal6991]

Knowing Intel they'll patch everything up before release lol.

[Guest domenico lamberti]

that'd suck donkey balls, apart from no SIM Unlock, no Root is the only thing stopping me buying this