Friday, October 26, 2012

Motorola fire tips & tricks & mods

To reveal some hidden features of motorola fire series phones
The file "setting.xml" which is located in "/hidden/data/CDA/" have too many bools
bools are settings that take value of "true" or "false"
For example:
when i opend setting.xml with notepad++ i scrolled down and found this line

<SETTINGS_FONT_SIZE_ADJ_OPT>false</SETTINGS_FONT_SIZE_ADJ_OPT>

When i changed the value from "false" to true, and pushed the file with ADB to the phone,
A new option appeared in the settings application inside the Display section, that allows me to change the overall font size in the phone UI
This option is already activated in china SBF, but wasn't activated in my global SBF

Also, there are numbered values that you can change from 0 to 1 or vice versa
For example:
when i was still scrolling in the same file, found this line:

<SYSTEM_UI_STYLE_ID>0</SYSTEM_UI_STYLE_ID>

and this line:

 <ro.SYSTEM_UI_STYLE_ID>0</ro.SYSTEM_UI_STYLE_ID>

When i changed the "0" in both of the lines, and pushed the file to my phone
now i can clear all notifications in my statusbar by tapping clear button
OR I CAN CLEAR THEM ONE BY ONE BY TAPPING THE RED MINUS BUTTON NEXT TO EACH NOTIFICATION, it may be a little new feature but it's effective and very useful in my opinion.

Those was two examples for all the great stuff you can do by only one file :)

Fire and quench rooting

For Motorola XT5 XT502 AKA Quench users, and it's variants
Simple and easy rooting method
Download "Universal Androot" from HERE and install it on your phone, Make sure that you already checked "Unknown Sources" from Settings > Applications
Then follow instructions of the app..

For Motorola Fire series, including (xt311, xt316, xt317, xt530, xt531, xt532)
-Download SUT (software update tool) From HERE
-Download this ZIP and extract it
-Download SuperOneClick, Search Google :) It's everywhere :)

-Now connect your phone with usb debugging enabled (settings > applications > development > Usb Debugging)
-Open SUT, That you installed, and flash the file FXX_PR3_NV.xml and before you flash make sure nv_definitions file is in the same folder (both of them are in the zip you extracted)
-Wait until SUT Finishes
-Open SuperOneClick and click ROOT then wait..

Congratulations ! if you see superuser icon in your app drawer then your device is now rooted !

Introduction

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I'll post on this blog anything that will be helpful to android users:
And sometimes i'll post apps and games :D