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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 25 2016, @03:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the easy-is-good dept.

Choose your operating system

Softpedia reports

The tool is developed by Marius Quabeck [of UbuntuFun.de] and is called magic-device-tool. The first stable version, magic-device-tool 1.0, is now available to everyone and promises to offer a simple and easy-to-use batch tool for installing Canonical's Ubuntu Touch mobile OS, as well as Android, Cyanogenmod, or Phoenix OS.

In other words, you'll be able to replace your mobile operating system on your device with any of the following: the latest Ubuntu Touch release, Cyanogenmod--with or without the GAPPS (Google Apps) package, the factory Android image, as well as Phoenix OS. Please note that you'll only be able to run one of these OSes on your mobile devices [at a time].

[It] has been successfully tested with BQ Aquaris E4.5, BQ Aquaris E5 HD, BQ Aquaris M10 HD, BQ Aquaris M10 FHD, Meizu MX 4, Meizu Pro 5, LG Nexus 4, LG Nexus 5, Asus Nexus 7 2013 WiFi, Asus Nexus 7 2013 LTE, Asus Nexus 7 2012 3G, Samsung Nexus 10, OnePlus One, and Fairphone 2 (FP2).

magic-device-tool is also good for creating backups, restoring your device, locking or unlocking the bootloader, and installing TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) recovery.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @04:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @04:12PM (#418596)

    More devices in general.
    Maybe the recently disclosed exploit that uses rowhammer to root practically all android phones will help?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:50PM (#418673)

    Maybe this will convince the networks to get phones patched faster.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:05PM (#418695)

      It is nearly impossible to fix rowhammer in software. If the SoC has memory encryption then they might be able to turn it on, and that would probably mitigate rowhammer enough to make it infeasible. But turning on memory encryption may cause a lot of new bugs to fall out due to unexpected consequences, so its not something they can just send out in next week's patch.

      And if the hardware does not support memory encryption, then they are pretty much SOL.