Couple of questions about excel

[marcknuckle]

for anyone who already owns an excel, what does it weigh? ebuyer states over 900g, surely not!

apparently it is pre-rooted, does this mean i will only have to install superuser to get it fully rooted?

mine will take another week approx to come and i want to be prepared, thanks.

[Mitre]

Hi my excell came pre rooted busybox is installed
No superuser or terminal emulator

WARNING ONLY DO THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING YOU CAN BRICK YOUR SCROLL

First i got terminal emulator from market open it type su press return if the $ changes to # on the next line you have root
Click menu close window
If you have root-
Next install supruser from market open app and update the binary this moves the app into your system and makes it usable(DONT DO THIS IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE THE APP LATER AS YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY WONT BE ABLE TO REMOVE IT ONCE DONE)

Thats it you have all you need to mash up your Excel
Sent from my Scroll Excel using Tapatalk

[marcknuckle]

any idea of it's weight?

thanks for the help so far

[Mitre]

This is not exactly scientific but its the best i could do with what was available
got 1kg of sugar which was opened and had about 80% left in the bag so 800grms
held that in one hand Excel in othe hand Excel is loads lighter prob about 250gm or so

weighs about the same as my kindle 3g in its leather case lighter than the old scroll
thats as near as i can get

[marcknuckle]

brill, cheers mate. so nowhere near the 930g that scan states (thought it was ebuyer that said that but it is scan)

[marcknuckle]

Cheers mate.

Just got it. I first downloaded terminal app and it confirmed root was there. I installed busybox and superuser and job done.

What process do i have to follow to remove the phone parts of the OS?

Cheers mate

[Mitre]

some people had success removing telephony etc on the old scroll i had trouble with mine so flashed it back to stock and used an airplane mode app to turn off cell then just turn on wireless lot less agro the battery life on the excel is so good that i not worried by it search on here for the phone apk removal thread and have a read

[marcknuckle]

i think by installing setcpu i have bricked it. it wont get past the balloon screen. any ideas?

[marcknuckle]

due to the problem it is being sent back and replaced. when i get the replacement i don't want any problems and i am wary what not to put on it.

any ideas what i should avoid doing that could have caused the problem? i do want to put busybox and superuser as i can't see them being the cause as it comes pre rooted as confirmed by the terminal emulator.

any suggestions?

[Charlie]

It sounds like you had setcpu - set to run from boot and had the cpu speed too low and/or used the wrong cpu governor. (hence why you had the problems) A hard factory reset from the recovery menu should have fixed it, by restoring the Scroll to factory settings.