If you own a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 we have some good news for you, xda recognized developer @Hashcode has created Safestrap recovery for you peeps who are on the locked VRUAME7 update.

What does this mean?

Well simple put this means that you can now flash custom roms on your Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4. But, you would need to wait for developers to create Safestrap compatible roms before you start going on that flashing spree.

Below is a description of Safestrap given by the developer himself.

WHAT IS SAFESTRAP?

Safestrap is a Bootstrap / Recovery for locked bootloader phones. The goal is to avoid touching your primary system (I’ll call this “stock” system) and only flash or make large changes to another place on your phone that Safestrap treats as a “2nd system” (in this case, it’s a series of virtual ROM slots located on the internal emmc area: “/sdcard”). Once installed, you will see a “Splashscreen” giving you the option to hit “menu” to enter recovery. The recovery portion of Safestrap is now based on TWRP 2.6.1.0 (a touch based recovery) and you can perform .zip installs, backups and restores here. The additional features I’ve added to TWRP are mostly located under the “Boot Options” menu:

1. Here you can create virtual ROM-slots (2 on the S4 due to partition size and internal space) for flashing ROMs. These ROM-slots allow for 3 different sizes of /data partitions: 1GB, 2GB and 3GB. NOTE: The bigger you make the /data partition the less room you will have to make other ROM-slots.
2. You can activate a new ROM-slot by choosing the slot you wish to make active and then selecting the “Activate” button. Once active, you will see the “rom-slot#” up in the top of the screen shown in green. If you make the “stock” ROM active, then you can see it in the top shown in red.
3. Once a ROM-slot is active, all actions you would normally perform using TWRP are directed to that ROM-slot. For example, “Install” to flash a .zip, backup and restore.

Installation is as simple as installing an apk file. For detailed instructions and download links head over to the original thread over at xda.

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ClockworkMod recovery and root are now available for Rogers Moto X. Why not AT&T and Verizon Moto X, well because they have locked bootloaders. Yes an unlocked bootloader is a necessity to install clockworkmod recovery on Rogers Moto X and then root it.

Once bootloader unlocked you only have to do a fastboot flash recovery recovery-file.img to install recovery and then flash either Superuser by Koush or SuperSU by Chainfire from recovery and you will be rooted.

For more details and download links head over to the original thread at xda.

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TWRP recovery is now available for the Nexus 7 2013. Of course you need to have an unlocked bootloader on your Nexus 7 2013. Installation is pretty easy. In case you do not know how to unlock the bootloader on your Nexus 7 2013 click here.

1) Install GooManager from the Play Store or Direct Download it and install the apk
2) Open GooManager and provide root permissions
3) Hit Menu (or the button with the 3 dots on your screen) and then Install OpenRecovery

Source:-xda

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What I hate most is when carriers (yes AT&T and Verizon am pointing at you) lock down bootloaders, but what I love most is when developers say “Up Yours” by hacking into them. AT&T LG Optimus G Pro is another example, the bootloader was locked by AT&T but enter djrbliss aka Dan and the bootloader on the AT&T LG Optimus G Pro has been hacked aka lokified.

Warning

Please note this is for AT&T LG Optimus G Pro, build E98010g only. Please do not try to flash any custom roms, kernels or anything from the recovery. This is just proof that the bootloader on the AT&T LG Optimus G pro has been hacked.

Here are the steps if you want to do them, please proceed at your own risk.

1. Download lokified cwm from here
2. untar the file and put it in internal memory of device
3. open adb session and check if your device is being detected by doing adb devices
4. get super user access by typing in su in the adb session
5. do a dd if=/sdcard/cwm-recovery.lok of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 to push lokified cwm to  your device
6. Do not do a reboot into recovery, instead turn off your device
7. Once device is turned off volume UP + home + power until you get into recovery

Please and I repeat please do not flash anything from this recovery, this is just a test recovery.

Source:-xda-developers

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Verizon has been shipping their version of the Galaxy S4 over the weekend, well a few hours ago, djrbliss tweeted :-

Successfully booted a custom recovery on the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4

Well, looks like he has done it again, the bootloader on Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 has been hacked and a custom recovery has been installed. Now we play the waiting game of waiting for the release.

Source:-djrbliss

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For installing the recovery you would need to have Odin installed on your windows machine, the installation instructions are pretty simple if you follow what’s written. Please note this is for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 only, please do not try to flash it on any other phone.

Once recovery is installed you can flash Chainfire’s Super SU and flash it from recovery to be rooted.

Download link to Odin, recovery and installation instructions can be found here.

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The custom recoveries (ClockworkMod & TWRP) are a work in progress and as per users graphics are off on ClockworkMod, please try at your own risk and neither we nor the developers are responsible for any bricked devices.

How to:-

1) Download the files from here. Another build of ClockworkMod can be found here.
2) Extract Odin3-3.04.zip and copy the tar that you downloaded into the folder
3) Run Odin as an administrator
4) Power your device off
5) Press and hold volume down and power to enter download mode
6) Connect your phone to your computer
7) Wait for drivers to finish installing if they need to be
8) You should see Odin find your device by marking a blue square in the ID COM box
9) Click on PDA and choose the recovery tar you downloaded
10) Click start

Once the file is flashed you should have the recovery you selected installed.

How to Enter recovery:-

1) Power down your device
2) Hold volume up and power to enter recovery
3) Navigate recovery by using the volume keys and power to select

How to Root:-

Download SuperSU and flash from Recovery.

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As of now the bootloader of the AT&T version of HTC One is unlockable via htcdev. You have the option of installing either TWRP or ClockworkMod. Installation instructions are pretty simple:-

1. Unlock your bootloader at htcdev
2. Download any of the recoveries you want (TWRP or Clockwordmod)
3. Make sure fastboot is unchecked in power options and turn phone completely off
4. Boot into HBoot mode and then Fastboot
5. From fastboot use the command “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img” , this is considering that the name of the recovery file downloaded is recovery.img, in case it is something else just change the file name in the command, also make sure that the recovery file is in the same folder as the fastboot executable

You should have recovery all installed now. If you want to get root on the stock rom just download either SuperUser or SuperSU and flash in recovery, you should now be rooted.

Cheers and enjoy the HTC One peeps.

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Thanks to xda member Flyhalf205 we now have custom recoveries available for the HTC First. Of course you need an unlocked bootloader which can be done one htcdev. Once you have unlocked the bootloader you need to boot into fastboot mode and “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img’ should do it for you.

Download and details installation instructions can be found here for ClockworkMod Touch & here for TWRP.

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As per htcdev the bootloader on the Sprint HTC One will be unlockabe via htcdev.com and let’s hope that is true. For details and donwload links head over to the original thread at xda.

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