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Hey guys.
I've been attempting this all morning and so far I've had no luck. I have a VodafoneAU Legend which I updated to the official 2.2 yesterday. But now I want to try root.
I've been trying to follow the HBOOT 1.01 guide but there's a few problems. First, I cannot connect to the phone with adb unless it's in htc sync mode. No other mode will work. So when it's time to copy testimage.zip to the card I have to change from sync mode to disk mode, whereby adb loses it's connection. What do I do about this? Is it a driver problem (in Win7 here) or something else?
Thanks,
Dave.
Ok, the first problem were drivers.
Now I can't finish the second guide. When I try using clockwork to install the firmware.zip, the phone just boots to the red triangle. What do I have to do?
Dave.
So I pressed the up button/power combo at the red triangle and get the Android system recovery. Selecting "apply update.zip" says it can't verify. What do I do? Is this guide for my phone or do I need to follow something else?
I don't understand this guys. Anyone help? I'm thinking since this is a step to root the phone, I'm not actually rooted yet so I can't use the clockworkmod? Then what is the guide for? The guides at unlockr don't mention what firmware/hboot they work for so I'm not keen to try them yet.
Read the guide on fake flash. You need the recovery file named "update.zip" in the root of your sd to proceed..
Sent from my Legend using XDA App
whitetigerdk said:
Read the guide on fake flash. You need the recovery file named "update.zip" in the root of your sd to proceed..
Sent from my Legend using XDA App
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But isn't that what Rom Manager does? Download the update.zip then run it? Man this is getting even harder to understand.
Edit: And this is left out of the HBOOT 1.01 guide because.....????? When I work this out I'll write a PROPPER guide, lol.
Just checked and update.zip is on the card.
So which part of the guide am I getting wrong?
Decided to reinstall phone with the official froyo release and am now ready to try this again. Is there anyone that will walk me through the process? I will write a complete guide if the "gotchas" are still there.
i feel for you ... hope you get it fixed... thats one of the reason i havent dared messing with the phone because i've seen a few post like yours where something didnt go quite as described... for whatever reason... and im sure the answer is out there but just not within the guide instructions... i guess there is no way to gather all gotchas because there are so many environment variables...
good luck
and please share your technique
Just saw gobczak's thread in the developer forum having similar troubles with Vodafone UK phone, getting the red triangle at reboot. I'll keep an eye on his thread and see how he goes with it.
Did you run the stage1 and stage2 bats while in recovery?
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Did you run the stage1 and stage2 bats while in recovery?
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No because the guide didn't say to.
The thing is it seems I'm only stuck on the part where the firmware.zip file has to be flashed. The guide says to use clockworkmod for this. But when I try installing the clockworkmod recovery it gives some file verification error. Isn't there ways to do this via the pc, either through those batch files, adb etc? Or will that fake-flash update.zip file work?
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No because the guide didn't say to.
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As I just posted on the other forum, I think you need to skip that step in guide 2 and go straight onto guide 3 after you have flashed the LEGEIMG.zip, rebooted, and then removed LEGEIMG.zip from the SD card.
Guys I've got to the point of downgrading to 1.31. But when I run the first batch file it just hangs at the "Writing zip" part, with the htc logo on the screen. Is there any way to fix this?
Can someone please explain this part of the guide:
Phone will reboot and find LEGEIMG.zip on your sdcard, copy it into RAM and check it. If you get CID error at this point, then you don't have goldcard.
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Ok, so I don't get an error. I get nothing. The phone just boots to the fastboot screen. If I press the power button it goes to the hboot screen and I can see the messages of loading LEGEIMG.zip. But the guide doesn't say to press anything.
So should I or shouldn't I press the power button? Also, if I try making the goldcard again, at which point in the guide do I start from again? The entire process or just copying LEGEIMG.zip to card then rebooting phone? I mean, will all the other things like flashing misc1-2.img still be there?
Guys I finally got this working.
The first problem was with the goldcards. For whatever reason formatting them with the win7 format tool just wouldn't work. I had to use the command-line format tool, setting the block size etc manually.
The second problem was the unnecessary steps in the guide. A few people helped me out with this (namely blackbart at the Aus Whirlpool forum), but basically in the second step you can stop after flashing the LEGEIMG.zip. The updating froyo part isn't needed - for my phone anyway.
Then when running the batch files in the third part, for whatever reason the first batch would keep hanging at 'writing zip...' and I needed to remove the battery to unfreeze the phone. flannigan, also from the Aus Whirlpool forums suggested to just go on to the second batch file. This worked!
So my Legend is now finally a true Legend
Anyway, thanks for the help everyone - couldn't have done this by myself.
Dave
Great news, I think we need a new guide focused on rooting for HBOOT 1.01 / Stock Froyo to clear up the inconsistencies in the existing one. It's a minefield for a noob (or a rite of passage!), a revised guide will certainly save a lot of time and frustration for those taking this road in the future.
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Great news, I think we need a new guide focused on rooting for HBOOT 1.01 to clear up the inconsistencies in the existing one. It's a minefield for a noob (or a rite of passage!), a revised guide will certainly save a lot of time and frustration for those taking this road in the future.
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I'll write one if ya's want. I wanted to include little tidbits like downloading the apps required (visionary, rom manager etc) from the market then backing them up to the card with Astro so if it goes all wrong and you have to start again, you can just install them all from the card Also on using adb to push the files (roms, img's etc) when the guides say "copy this blah blah". Much quicker than changing to disk mode and back. Sound good?
Sounds good! Happy to help and add my 20c worth along the way. The existing guide has got the meaty bits, a new guide would cull the stuff not relevant, help fill in the gaps and alert to the pitfalls we've fallen into.
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I'll write one if ya's want. I wanted to include little tidbits like downloading the apps required (visionary, rom manager etc) from the market then backing them up to the card with Astro so if it goes all wrong and you have to start again, you can just install them all from the card Also on using adb to push the files (roms, img's etc) when the guides say "copy this blah blah". Much quicker than changing to disk mode and back. Sound good?
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I agree... i've done my reading since june of last year but then didnt check for another 4 months... and so many how to's pop up with various ways of doing it depeding on the situation... a lot of those howtos were consolidated howtos which sometimes make intermediate steps unenecessary (may be in some cases causes more head aches since it didnt take into considerations on newer version of hboots...etc)... an updated how to will be much appreciated...
And you're right the most important pre requirement is to have a safety net ... so starting with how to create a back up in case you screw it up is a must!
but im glad it worked out for you!
Okay, so, I have the Xperia X10 on AT&T (yeah, mistake #1 I know... blargh, wont' make that one again). Being that I'm in the US, I'm assuming it's the X10a, correct? (if not, I would like to know how exactly I check).
That said and done - where do I start with the rooting process? This 1.6 firmware is killing my phone (and me) and I'm sick of AT&T pushing the 2.1 update back as they cripple it with their "necessary" updates... I read the reference guide, but the rooting steps therein seemed to be more for European X10i's, which I heard cross-rooting causes some issues.
I really don't know quite where to start and would appreciate a gentle (or not so gentle) shove in the right direction
-Kitt
Edit - edited to enable notification - thanks again anyone who takes the time to help me!
everything you need is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=678513
Ah, missed that one XD Feel free to beat me with a stick
Okay, so:
Model X10a
Firmware 1.6
Baseband 1.1.32
Kernel [email protected] #2
Build R2CA016
... okay, now I feel really dumb as I'm not really sure where to go from here - I was looking at reading the Guide to Rooting and getting newer Firmware, except that it's an invalid link
Truth be told, all I REALLY care about is getting 2.1 on the bloody thing because the memory leak in 1.6 (as well as the other random slowdowns) are just annoying. I'm not sure atm how far I'll really go with this whole rooting thing - the more I look at it the more I realize that, without someone to really talk me through it the first time, I'm totally in over my head.
EDIT - atm, I'm following this guide: [FLASHTOOL GUIDE] HOW TO for n00bie... that gonna get it done?
Ninja-Edit - okay, woo, got it on 2.1! Now... is it worth re-flashing to the x10Generic w/ multi touch one?
Kittamaru said:
Ah, missed that one XD Feel free to beat me with a stick
Okay, so:
Model X10a
Firmware 1.6
Baseband 1.1.32
Kernel [email protected] #2
Build R2CA016
... okay, now I feel really dumb as I'm not really sure where to go from here - I was looking at reading the Guide to Rooting and getting newer Firmware, except that it's an invalid link
Truth be told, all I REALLY care about is getting 2.1 on the bloody thing because the memory leak in 1.6 (as well as the other random slowdowns) are just annoying. I'm not sure atm how far I'll really go with this whole rooting thing - the more I look at it the more I realize that, without someone to really talk me through it the first time, I'm totally in over my head.
EDIT - atm, I'm following this guide: [FLASHTOOL GUIDE] HOW TO for n00bie... that gonna get it done?
Ninja-Edit - okay, woo, got it on 2.1! Now... is it worth re-flashing to the x10Generic w/ multi touch one?
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This will walk you through it, and all the links should be in his description
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIC9uN_0syg&feature=channel_video_title
Yeah, running the 2.1 update 1 now Scared me a bit - didn't know it would take so much longer to start the first reboot after the flash - thought I bricked the bloody thing XD
when that completes you can install Xrecovery (after rooting of course) and explore the many ROMS on this site
BTW book mark the link below. it's got plenty of tutorials and goodies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955703
What exactly are the ROM's for? Just alternative OS's? Won't AT&T boot me off their network for that?
Yes they are alternative OS's.
I do not think that a network provider would terminate your service if you flashed another OS.
I've also heard that AT&T does not have 2.1 so you have to flash the generic version using flashtool?
I'm also on at&t, you can do what i did a long time ago. Go to the development section and scroll down till you doing the flash tool thread. Flashtool BETA 0.2.9.1, post by Androxyde i think. Its about 20-30 threads down. Read the instructions, download the x10a generic firmware, flash it using flash tool, root it with flash tool.
Rooting can be a pain, what i did... From launcher, press the menu button, settings, applications, then development. Check the usb debugging and stay awake options. keep the setting page for the usb debugging open while the phone is plugged to the computer. Try to root and if it doesn't work the first few times, wait till it restarts the root process. Then when then installation gets to the first pause/delay (i think its when its trying the rage install), uncheck the usb debugging then recheck it and click yes on the confirmation, quickly before root process continues. If you fail, try again until you get it. Won't do any harm if you miss it. Once rooted, install xrecovery and from there you can try other roms.
- X10a CW6 ~ via XDA App
aR_ChRiS said:
Yes they are alternative OS's.
I do not think that a network provider would terminate your service if you flashed another OS.
I've also heard that AT&T does not have 2.1 so you have to flash the generic version using flashtool?
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No AT&T won't terminate your service. I've been switching back & forth between custom roms since day 1 that I had both of my x10s 6 moths ago.
And yes, I don't think AT&T will ever have 2.1 which was additional motivation to try custom roms.
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I'm also on at&t, you can do what i did a long time ago. Go to the development section and scroll down till you doing the flash tool thread. Flashtool BETA 0.2.9.1, post by Androxyde i think. Its about 20-30 threads down. Read the instructions, download the x10a generic firmware, flash it using flash tool, root it with flash tool.
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I think KITTAMARU was already flashing to generic 2.1 based on his comment on POST #5.
redincali said:
Rooting can be a pain, what i did... From launcher, press the menu button, settings, applications, then development. Check the usb debugging and stay awake options. keep the setting page for the usb debugging open while the phone is plugged to the computer. Try to root and if it doesn't work the first few times, wait till it restarts the root process. Then when then installation gets to the first pause/delay (i think its when its trying the rage install), uncheck the usb debugging then recheck it and click yes on the confirmation, quickly before root process continues. If you fail, try again until you get it. Won't do any harm if you miss it. Once rooted, install xrecovery and from there you can try other roms.
- X10a CW6 ~ via XDA App
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Wow really? All that just to root? Since v0.2.3 of the flashtool (can't remember exactly since I've switched at least 5 times) all I did was enable USB debugging, press root on the flashtool, let it reboot and presto. Phone is rooted.
HTC ARIA FIX FOR THOSE THAT UPGRADED TO 2.2.2
By kibby Ndemo
ALPHAREVX
Requirements:
• ADB Installed on your system. See our guide on what is ADB and how to install it.
• HTC Sync software installed in order to download necessary drivers. (Once the drivers are installed, remove HTC Sync from your system.)
• AlphaRevX.
Instructions:
1. To begin, make sure USB debugging is enabled in you device under Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Download AlphaRevX and extract the files to a folder. (A form will show up on the download page, keep it opened.)
3. Connect your device to the system and run Aplharev.exe.
4. You will be asked to enter a Beta key at this stage. Simple copy the serial number that shows up in the brackets in the prompt as shown in the screenshot above, and paste it into the form on the download page.
5. Hit the Generate Key on that form and once you have the key, enter it into the prompt to see a Beta key accepted message.
6. The application will start the S-Off procedure and should complete in around 90 seconds. Incase it does not start, wait fro around 15 minutes and re-do the whole process.
After doing the above procedure downgrade to HTC aria 2.1 then you be able to root you aria once more and flash any files. Please donate to alpharev too they made it possible.you can find the old 2.1 ruu in xda
PS I have done it and it works.
Man talk about timing. My fr008 aria bit the dust and I had to get another via ins. well it came factory with 2.2.2. I was pissed off about that and started looking for a fix and found one here. I will have to wait till tomorrow or Monday to try it because the unit they sent me has a bad ear piece and they are sending a new one but I will post my results when I get my new, new phone. Thanks for the work on this.
No link to file do I need to search XDA or did you forget to attach it.
tbone22 said:
Man talk about timing. My fr008 aria bit the dust and I had to get another via ins. well it came factory with 2.2.2. I was pissed off about that and started looking for a fix and found one here. I will have to wait till tomorrow or Monday to try it because the unit they sent me has a bad ear piece and they are sending a new one but I will post my results when I get my new, new phone. Thanks for the work on this.
No link to file do I need to search XDA or did you forget to attach it.
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it's all over these forums
www.alpharev.nl/x/beta
ferariboy said:
HTC ARIA FIX FOR THOSE THAT UPGRADED TO 2.2.2
By kibby Ndemo
ALPHAREVX
Requirements:
• ADB Installed on your system. See our guide on what is ADB and how to install it.
• HTC Sync software installed in order to download necessary drivers. (Once the drivers are installed, remove HTC Sync from your system.)
• AlphaRevX.
Instructions:
1. To begin, make sure USB debugging is enabled in you device under Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Download AlphaRevX and extract the files to a folder. (A form will show up on the download page, keep it opened.)
3. Connect your device to the system and run Aplharev.exe.
4. You will be asked to enter a Beta key at this stage. Simple copy the serial number that shows up in the brackets in the prompt as shown in the screenshot above, and paste it into the form on the download page.
5. Hit the Generate Key on that form and once you have the key, enter it into the prompt to see a Beta key accepted message.
6. The application will start the S-Off procedure and should complete in around 90 seconds. Incase it does not start, wait fro around 15 minutes and re-do the whole process.
After doing the above procedure downgrade to HTC aria 2.1 then you be able to root you aria once more and flash any files. Please donate to alpharev too they made it possible.you can find the old 2.1 ruu in xda
PS I have done it and it works.
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Why would anyone want to downgrade to 2.1 after having S-OFF!? (Rhetorical question). Once you have S-OFF, you can flash superuser, clockworkmod and custom roms without needing to downgrade to 2.1 then rooting again. Also attn1 already made a thread here on what to do after AlpharevX: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694.
HTC ARIA
He is very right i jumped the gun too soon
ferariboy said:
Try flashing the htc aria after s-off then that will answer your question please do research before bloging something you dont have an idea about
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fastboot?
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ferariboy said:
Try flashing the htc aria after s-off then that will answer your question please do research before bloging something you dont have an idea about
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Uh no, Theonew is exactly right. Not only is he right, but he gave a link showing exactly what he was talking about. In an ultimate showing of irony, you blasted someone for not doing his research when it's actually you who hasn't done his research.
Once you have S-OFF you don't need to use the 2.1 RUU or Unrevoked. It's a waste of time. You can push Clockwork recovery to your phone via fastboot, then flash whatever you want. It takes literally 2 seconds to flash Clockwork in this manner after you have S-OFF.
ferariboy said:
HTC ARIA FIX FOR THOSE THAT UPGRADED TO 2.2.2
By kibby Ndemo
ALPHAREVX
Requirements:
• ADB Installed on your system. See our guide on what is ADB and how to install it.
• HTC Sync software installed in order to download necessary drivers. (Once the drivers are installed, remove HTC Sync from your system.)
• AlphaRevX.
Instructions:
1. To begin, make sure USB debugging is enabled in you device under Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Download AlphaRevX and extract the files to a folder. (A form will show up on the download page, keep it opened.)
3. Connect your device to the system and run Aplharev.exe.
4. You will be asked to enter a Beta key at this stage. Simple copy the serial number that shows up in the brackets in the prompt as shown in the screenshot above, and paste it into the form on the download page.
5. Hit the Generate Key on that form and once you have the key, enter it into the prompt to see a Beta key accepted message.
6. The application will start the S-Off procedure and should complete in around 90 seconds. Incase it does not start, wait fro around 15 minutes and re-do the whole process.
After doing the above procedure downgrade to HTC aria 2.1 then you be able to root you aria once more and flash any files. Please donate to alpharev too they made it possible.you can find the old 2.1 ruu in xda
PS I have done it and it works.
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Even though I switched to the atrix, I kept my aria just for this
Sent from my "Emo" rooted Motorola Atrix! Emo Thinks Possible™
nice share M8, even if it was copied directly from Addictivetips.com
im interested to know other peoples experience with this... all good i hope
only for curiosity, i didnt upgrade to 2.2 OTA
zedbra said:
nice share M8, even if it was copied directly from Addictivetips.com
im interested to know other peoples experience with this... all good i hope
only for curiosity, i didnt upgrade to 2.2 OTA
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I really didn't have any need to either. I was perfectly happy with a fully rooted Aria running CM 7.0.3, but curiosity got the best of me, plus I had just ordered a HTC Incredible S, so I decided to 'practice' the AlphaRevX process on my Aria.
Installed the Froyo 2.2.2 update and then ran AlphaRevX and it went without a hitch. Got CWM reinstalled and superuser reinstalled and it was a really painless.
Nice!! thanks for the feedback M8
not to stray off topic, but now with S-Off achieved is it possible to downgrade HBoot with .zip file?? or is this sticky which can only be done using a box??
i may upgrade anyway just for kicks, but it would be great if we could downgrade HBoot again too
zedbra said:
Nice!! thanks for the feedback M8
not to stray off topic, but now with S-Off achieved is it possible to downgrade HBoot with .zip file?? or is this sticky which can only be done using a box??
i may upgrade anyway just for kicks, but it would be great if we could downgrade HBoot again too
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AlphaRevX is able to overwrite HBOOT 1.02 and replace it with their own that has S-OFF. It looks like they set the HBOOT version very high, so that 'downgrading' with say a RUU will fail. So if you find a way to replace this special HBOOT, you will loose S-OFF.
yah after reading a bit i see the Alpharev hack is a pached HBOOT. so i believe you are correct, removing it will make it S-On again. too bad
Theonew said:
Why would anyone want to downgrade to 2.1 after having S-OFF!? (Rhetorical question). Once you have S-OFF, you can flash superuser, clockworkmod and custom roms without needing to downgrade to 2.1 then rooting again. Also attn1 already made a thread here on what to do after AlpharevX: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694.
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This is what I want to do, but I need some help.
After using AlpharevX, I'll get S-OFF. Then, I just want to root the phone and be able to do a nandroid backup. I don't want to flash any ROM at this time.
The link you posted to does not have a clockworkmod listed for Aria. Which one do I use?
i would use THIS One. finally Clockwork without the recovery screen during charging
once you aquire S-off you can install Clockwork using Android Flasher
amlothi said:
This is what I want to do, but I need some help.
After using AlpharevX, I'll get S-OFF. Then, I just want to root the phone and be able to do a nandroid backup. I don't want to flash any ROM at this time.
The link you posted to does not have a clockworkmod listed for Aria. Which one do I use?
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It does have it listed for Aria. The Aria is codenamed as Liberty. It's ClockworkMod is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=591945&d=1305031790. You can get android flasher from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638. Unzip it, run it, select recovery at the side and click begin (Your phone will go into fastboot), find recovery.img (extracted from ClockworkMod), select it, click begin, and your done. You now have ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1 installed. To root, just go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694 and follow the "To Root" steps and then you will be rooted. To do the nandroid backup, just start ClockworkMod (Instructions in the previous link - "How to start ClockworkMod") and select nandroid.
Alright guys, this post is just for reference and ease. I've been using xda ever since I got my old HTC Hero a year and a half ago. Now I have the EVO and xda has been nothing but helpful to me. I've decided to make this post to try to help anyone that might not know much about android so I will make this a simple, easy to understand post tutorial.
HTC EVO 4G 2.3 Gingerbread root tutorial:
(Step 1) Power down your phone and take the battery out. Printed on the phone under the battery is a serial number. It is on the bottom line and usually starts with the letters: HT then a series of numbers and letters. Write this code down for you will need it later.
(Step 2) Download superuser from this link: http://www.mediafire.com/?q3ujsx1m4uq1662.
(Step 3) Download the HTC drivers from this link: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...=HTC Drivers&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13139469417033
(Step 4) Plug your phone to your computer and put the phone in disk drive mode. Now put the superuser .zip on the sdcard and change the mode to charge only.
(Step 5) Put the phone in usb debugging mode. Do this by: home>menu>settings>applications>development>usb debugging.
Also, enable fastboot. Do this by: home>menu>settings>applications>fastboot.
(Step 6) Got to: http://revolutionary.io/ Go down to the downloads section and select either windows or linux. (depending on your machine) Allow the file to download and proceed to the beta key generation.
(Step 7) Select your operating system (windows or linux) and your device and hboot version.
If you are unsure of your hboot version you can check by powering down your phone and holding volume down and the power button (make sure fastboot is turned off before doing this. just make sure to enable it again once you have checked and have the phone powered back up.)
Now enter your serial key (the code you got from under the battery.) select generate key and it will give you a beta key.
Make sure to keep the window open.
(Step 8) Extract the revolutionary.zip and run revolutionary. It should recognize your device and then ask for the beta key. Enter the beta key it gave you, remember it is case sensitive.
(Step 9) Revolutionary will now work its magic. Let it do its thing and DO NOT interrupt it. It may seem like it is frozen but it sometimes just takes a few minutes.
(Step10) After it gets done with all of its operations, revolutionary will ask if you want it to connect to the internet and download the recovery. type the letter "y" and hit enter. It will do it and then reboot.
(Step11) Now you need to flash the superuser .zip. Disable fastboot and and usb debugging and power down the device. Hold volume down and power at the same time until you get the hboot menu. It may check for an image and shouldn't find one. Just let it do its thing. Volume down and select recovery. It will reboot into recover. Now just volume down to install .zip then select choose .zip from sdcard and choose the su 2.3.6.3 efgh signed.zip and select yes. It will flash it. When it is done just reboot.
Congratulations. You are now rooted with superuser and s-off and have full root access.
Thank you, xda. I am grateful for this forum of great and helpful people, without you guys my android life would would be simply mediocre.
Edit: If you need to learn how to flash roms, here is my guide!!: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230610
Nicely done but may I suggest 1 thing to some people that I have noticed in going thru the root thread in development. I think you should also download a rooted version of the rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830153 and flash this right away or in lieu of flashing the root files. I have seen some people have issues running certain things with the root zip file provided.
Also I think the first thing that should be done prior to rebooting is Nandroid(ing) your present rom for safe keeping.
Yeah that makes sense. I haven't had any problems whatsoever with my way after doing it three different times with three different evos, but, nevertheless, I appreciate your input and if you have seen this problem then thank you for bringing it to the attention of the viewers of this thread.
This is by far the easiest Root I've done to date (granted I've only rooted by Hero and my Evo), but still. Gotta love simplicity.
Thank you for posting this! Now I have a few questions I am hoping someone could answer.
The first: Will this process wipe my phone?
And the second: Our home computer is a Mac. Since this isn't available for Mac computers at the moment, I have an older laptop running windows vista that I am trying it on. I tried to install the HTC drivers but it keeps popping up with a window asking if I want to repair it or remove it. What is this error? There isn't an option to just install it. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.
rocket999 said:
Thank you for posting this! Now I have a few questions I am hoping someone could answer.
The first: Will this process wipe my phone?
And the second: Our home computer is a Mac. Since this isn't available for Mac computers at the moment, I have an older laptop running windows vista that I am trying it on. I tried to install the HTC drivers but it keeps popping up with a window asking if I want to repair it or remove it. What is this error? There isn't an option to just install it. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.
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The file is a simple exe file and should only install not sure whats that about and also it will not wipe out anything. But you do need to do a backup of your apps. My suggestion would be Titanium Backup or MyBackup
HOnestly people this root is incredibly easy to sit here and double triple guess your self with this particular procedure is unnecessary. Just follow direction to the letter at the original development thread or here and it will be done if 3 minutes. No risk at all IMO.... If you are still worried I would be happy to help out just PM me
rocket999 said:
Thank you for posting this! Now I have a few questions I am hoping someone could answer.
The first: Will this process wipe my phone?
And the second: Our home computer is a Mac. Since this isn't available for Mac computers at the moment, I have an older laptop running windows vista that I am trying it on. I tried to install the HTC drivers but it keeps popping up with a window asking if I want to repair it or remove it. What is this error? There isn't an option to just install it. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.
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No, the rooting process does not get rid of any user information. It simply unlocks the bootloader for your phone. As for the drivers, what Windows OS are you using? I found it far easier to install the drivers on Windows 7 than XP.
ceng7904 said:
Yeah that makes sense. I haven't had any problems whatsoever with my way after doing it three different times with three different evos, but, nevertheless, I appreciate your input and if you have seen this problem then thank you for bringing it to the attention of the viewers of this thread.
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In reality after you get s-off on your bootloader you can flash another rom. You only flash the su zip if you want to have your present rom rooted.
rocket999 said:
Thank you for posting this! Now I have a few questions I am hoping someone could answer.
The first: Will this process wipe my phone?
And the second: Our home computer is a Mac. Since this isn't available for Mac computers at the moment, I have an older laptop running windows vista that I am trying it on. I tried to install the HTC drivers but it keeps popping up with a window asking if I want to repair it or remove it. What is this error? There isn't an option to just install it. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.[/QUO
Nope. No data loss will occur. The drivers sometimes are interfered with by other programs so what I suggest is disabling your antivirus and uninstall anything you have on your computer that has to do with htc. Just keep the drivers and get rid of stuff like htc sync and pdanet.
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playya said:
In reality after you get s-off on your bootloader you can flash another rom. You only flash the su zip if you want to have your present rom rooted.
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This is true.
Evilsj said:
No, the rooting process does not get rid of any user information. It simply unlocks the bootloader for your phone. As for the drivers, what Windows OS are you using? I found it far easier to install the drivers on Windows 7 than XP.
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Ok thanks. I just wanted to be sure. The computer is Windows Vista. Will the drivers still work on it?
rocket999 said:
Thank you for posting this! Now I have a few questions I am hoping someone could answer.
The first: Will this process wipe my phone?
And the second: Our home computer is a Mac. Since this isn't available for Mac computers at the moment, I have an older laptop running windows vista that I am trying it on. I tried to install the HTC drivers but it keeps popping up with a window asking if I want to repair it or remove it. What is this error? There isn't an option to just install it. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.
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Nope. No data loss will occur. The drivers sometimes are interfered with by other programs so what I suggest is disabling your antivirus and uninstall anything you have on your computer that has to do with htc. Just keep the drivers and get rid of stuff like htc sync and pdanet.
Whoops! I got the HTC stuff to install and now it is in the process of rooting. I figured out right after I edited this post. Thank you for all the help!
rocket999 said:
Whoops! I got the HTC stuff to install and now it is in the process of rooting. I figured out right after I edited this post. Thank you for all the help!
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Ok. Great! Hit the thanks button if it helped!
Hey nice post I just have one question how do you install the htc drivers
aksharpatel417 said:
Hey nice post I just have one question how do you install the htc drivers
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Just go to the link I provided and download. Then install
Do I need to have my phone plugged in or anything like that
aksharpatel417 said:
Do I need to have my phone plugged in or anything like that
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This is a bit redundant. I really don't understand what you mean but if you just follow the directions completely and entirely then it will work perfectly. Just plug it in when the directions call for it.
aksharpatel417 said:
Do I need to have my phone plugged in or anything like that
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Stop over thinking it.... Its ok its really as simple as it sounds... Relax follow each step and you will be fine... Your questions sound like your worried and if you are the steps after you root will drive you crazy. Especially changing kernels, flashing radios or roms....
Hi guys,
I'm an idiot.That's nothing new, but here it looks that I'm double one I tried to root my wife's HTC Desire Z, but without success. I tried to use CWM Super-Su v0.96, HTC Quick Root and few others. But I'm not able to do it.
Can you please explain me somebody step-by-step, what I have to download exactly, what to copy where, what to run, to do and so on.... For example HTC Quick Root - after initial reboot to recovery mode I had to run 1st option "phone reboot" or something like that, but before reboot that I received some error message regarding rights to folder structure....So I wasn't able to install Superuser or SuperSU. I also tried to run Superuser.apk but of cousre I have no rights to System/xbin to copy there su file...
Her Android ver is 2.3.3 , HTC Sense ver 2.1 , SW number: 2.42.405.4
PS: During this process I need my data untouched in the phone (pictures, contacts, SMS). I don't want to upgrade Android ver, I just need root access to install Titanium Backup and delete 90% of useless apps.
Thank you very much,
idiot Rado77 :cyclops:
PS: I'm adding answer also here. As you can see below, there are few ways how to do the same thing, but for example in my case worked only this way:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Rooting
Try this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835777
Thank you very much Marquin. I spent appr. 6 hours and read whole internet, but I couldn't root that crazy phone I used almost every type of rooting method, but I allways receive some error message regarding rights, or it repeatedly freezes on some concrete step... I don't underdstand because I sucessfuly rooted my Xperia U and LG P690 during 15 minutes. But this HTC really shocked me. I'm an idiot, I said that...
The only way to truley root your phone will be following the xda wiki, the cyanogen wiki, or strawmetals PDF guide. Don't use any other method or you will have issues, some could brick your phone some could just make things more difficult later.
You will need to downgrade first, yes this will wipe your phone. You can use apps like sms backup + to save call logs and messages, link account to google to store contacts, have pictures on sd so you don't loose them.
Sent from my Desire Z using xda premium
Ahaaaaaa, so it looks that downgrade is necessary part of root process. Thank you very much for info. I think that this could be the right way: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905261
When I was rooting my DZ I used that:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)
for downgrading...
Finally I used pages on WIKI:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Rooting
and I can say that rooting of this phone was the heaviest what I did :laugh: I had to chat with some guy named GUHL who helps me with whole process step-by-step, he checked outputs wiht error messages in my cmd and as final he gaves me the link with beautifull 2.3 Sense with available root.
Ufffff...that was really interesting way!
PS: I'll never root any HTC phone !!!!
Hey all!
I finally decided to root my phone after having it for about two years or so. I don't know why I never bothered, but decided to do so today. It was a bit of a hassle, even with the instructions that I found (the same ones I found in this thread), but I finally got it to work! I just flashed my first rom (Gen.Y VisionX R2 ) and so far I'm liking it, but I don't really know what's out there in terms of what I can do (customizing options, speed/performance, overclocking, and all that).
But anyways, great links in this thread
without downgrading to 2.2 Froyo, there's no way to Root desire z 2.3.3, if you are already on 2.2 and you can continue rooting procedure. make sure to follow the instructions correctly and (copy past the command do not type it>> IMPORTANT) :cowboy
Ahmedrzvi
Recently got my vision on 2.3.3 and already soff . Now I'm not sure what to do.
Which root method could be the best option now
The rooting page on XDA links to the PDFs that have step by step guides, but the tools that are used/referenced are no longer available for download. This is a step above the Cyan page which is just plain gone.
Can anyone point to currently active steps in rooting the phone? I have it downgraded, I just need to root it.
Abdullah Dot said:
Recently got my vision on 2.3.3 and already soff . Now I'm not sure what to do.
Which root method could be the best option now
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Im in a similar situation, bought a Desire Z from Ebay, already has bootloader unlocked and s-ff (was like this when I got it). Unfortunately, I upgraded to Gingerbread before I realised this was an issue with rooting.
Have tried a few different guides, but it appears as though the fr3yo file is no longer available.
thank you im rooted
Hi.
I purchase desire z from ebay. From the first time i have some issues with the phone. Touchscreen was pressing by itself etc. I asked for help and told me that was digitizer fault. Before that i thought that may be they didn't flash the ROM corectly so i returned to stock froyo but i don't think i'm rooted.
I gave it for repair and after some days they gave me the phone back and told me that it is ok. To tell you then truth the problem it wasn't so intense so take it from there. I turn it on, played al little and turn it of. I made a charge for 5 hours. After that device turn on, go to menu and after some seconds reboot and reboot and reboot.
I have tried to install CWM with this method but i can't. At first step says "sending file" but after i got message "failed"
I know here are the most experienced guys that will try to suggest me a solution before sell it for parts.
Thank you very much
Antonis
Changing ROM
Hello,
I rooted my DZ a few weeks ago, without any issue; I did everything which was mentioned in the instructions, so I suppose I have S-off, rooting, and whatever. Of course I don't remember anything at all.
Now I'd like to change ROM, mainly because, in spite of using CM 7.2, which is widely recognized as one of the fastest, I am having several issues with performance. I read around that a "superwipe" may be useful, yet I don't remember having done it last time. So, my question is: what are the steps I should perform? I should maybe mention that I have ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.2.4 installed.
I hope this is a correct 3D to post into, if it isn't please take into account that I am new in this forum :angel:
All links you should need are in here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43195539
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