Hi I've been spending the morning trying to root my Legend according to the guide in the Developers section. Everything went smoothly from downgrading up to Step 1 of the root procedure. It's getting stuck at writing 'zip' and Google didn't really help much, most people who had this problem either didn't get a proper answer or it was caused by problems creating the goldcard, which I'm sure I got right. Does anyone know the problem?
Try running a linux virtual machine and continue from there, its how I got it working.
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If you got through step1 you can just download clockworkmod's update.zip and place it in the root of your sdcard. Then enter recovery and flash the room you like. This worked for me..
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Thanks, I got it working from my Linux, I've had a dual-boot but haven't been able to get adb working in it until this.
Something else about flashing new firmware - when I want to upgrade ROMs such as from CM 6 to 6.1, do I need to do a wipe? What does the wipe actually do and will I lose all my settings again?
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Alright, So I recently just moved from an Evo to the epic. And I'm glad I did. The evo was great, But I missed having a keyboard and the epic hasn't dissapointed.
I have a couple questions though,
Rooting on the evo was super easy, I'm still confused on how to use the one click root for epic. People are saying it doesn't work? And I read on some website if you just want to change roms and change kernals just to flash a custom recovery onto it and don't root, because rooting will only let you get root-only apps.
Please? Explain on how to root with the one click root method because I'm Completely lost on how to do this for the epic 0_o
The one click root does work. I followed the instructions and my phone is rooted. I'm new to android and to rooting but not new to modding phones/computers/software. After rooting you can still download none root apps in addition to root apps. From what I've seen most of the rooting issues come from people not following the instructions or not truely understanding them. I haven't flashed to a new rom yet. I'm waiting on froyo. So I can't say for sure but its my understanding that you have to have root premissions to flash a custom rom.
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As far as how to root with the one click root I installed the samsung usb drivers for my operating system (win 7 64bit) Note: after reading several posts the driver installation takes a little bit. Click on the installing drivers message to bring up the install window. I let the installtion run for almost 15 minuted and it still gave me an error but after turning on usb debbuging on phone connecting with usb, mounting sd card, and running the one click root my phone restarted and I was rooted. If you search other posts you'll find more detailed instructions.
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Correction. You don't have to root to flash a rom I don't know what I was thinking when I typed that. All you need is clockwork recovery.
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The only problem you'll encounter, if any at all, with rooting is with driver installation. If u follow the guides tho and don't try to experiment, u shud be good to go. These roots are one click as well as it involves running a simple bat file. Some phones are more finnicky than others, but they shud give u no trouble if u know what ur doing. Good luck.
And yes, the keyboard on this rules
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Hey Guys,
So im in a bit of a peculiar situation here, I downgraded my device from Gingerbread to 2.2.1 following the wiki (kudos to whoever did that, thanks a lot!). However, when I got to 2.2.1, it now only mounts my SD card as read only? I have ordered another one to see whether i just got a crappy sd card (Tmo refused to replace it under warranty)... However, I have pushed Visionary and Gfree, in preparation to root this sucker, and have my way with it...but heres the caveat, is that now, when I try to boot into recovery, I get that stinking little phone with a red triangle on it...what does this mean?
Regards
Trevor
That means you don't have a custom recovery installed
Download Rom manager from the market and install the clockworkmod recovery
Edit: until you root the phone my post is useless the custom recovery is for after you root the phone
If you need help rooting the phone mackster248 has a great 2 part video showing you how to root the MT4G on YouTube
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right, so if i am still able to root my thing using gfree then flash custom recovery? So...im not hosed yet?
trev
PS, is there an way to reformat an sd card through ADB, i think it may be read only because of some corrupt sectors, and would like to try to reformat it...does the fdisk utility do this?
regards
trev
rockr4Christ said:
right, so if i am still able to root my thing using gfree then flash custom recovery? So...im not hosed yet?
trev
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Yes follow my instructions and you will be fine
And no your not hosed yet lol
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ok maybe i just cant find it anywhere or what but ive become a pro at flashing roms and stuff on my droid razr...and i just recently got my Nexus 7 and want to do all the same perks but obviously im in that early stage....so quickly, i have already unlocked my bootloader and rooted my device, but im having trouble finding how to flash custom roms and what not, its a little different from my razr i guess huh.....where do i start...ive been using the Nexus Tool Kit 1.1.0 and trying to mess with it a little to figure everything out like i did the razr but im trying to desperatly not to screw it up....so can someone please tell me the easiest way to start flashing, what recovery i use and how to get to it etc.....thanks so much!
If you're permanently rooted, just download goo manager from the play store. Open the app and press menu, select install OpenRecoveryScript and follow the instructions and say yes to the disclaimers, then reboot.
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So I decided to try the ubuntu rom out, and silly me, I wrote on top of the back up I had done of my rom; and now I've got the N7 with the ubuntu rom installed and no back up accesible to backup to an android rom....
Is there a way to flash any rom from the recovery menu? if there's, please tell me how... because the computer doesn't recognize the N7 when I plug it in, so I cant just copy a .zip to flash it...
PLEASE tell me there's a way to undo this and that I have not bricked my device... please, tell me there's a way.... :crying:
Thanks in advance.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
Bottom of the page guide to revert back to android
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Oh God, thanks.
Heya...
On my 16GB Grouper I had installed the stock rooted 4.3 rom. Yesterday a system OTA update message appeared on my screen - 1.7 MB. I let it download and install over night and just went to bed. Came back in the morning to a boot loop where the device got stuck with the four colorful thingies animation. I can access the bootloader, but the recovery seems to be broken. Can't remember if I had anything other than the stock one... Anyways, now I'm strugling to get this thing going again. I am a zero at ADB but willing to learn whatever is necessary to get me started with a working recovery at least. No tool root box will do anything really for me...
Thanks for your help in advance
Hey!
Had a problem just like yours. If your running windows then install this program its called nexus tool kit. I'm a newbie here but if you Google 'nexus toolkit wug fresh' you can find it
All you need to do is plug your device in and open the program, then select flash OTA with the boot loop option and then follow the on screen instructions
That should put you back to normal with a fresh start meaning all you data will be lost. You can also root from there to.
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hettige677 said:
Hey!
Had a problem just like yours. If your running windows then install this program its called nexus tool kit. I'm a newbie here but if you Google 'nexus toolkit wug fresh' you can find it
All you need to do is plug your device in and open the program, then select flash OTA with the boot loop option and then follow the on screen instructions
That should put you back to normal with a fresh start meaning all you data will be lost. You can also root from there to.
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Yeah. It would be dumb to actually learn what you are doing to your device. You should totally use a toolkit.
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Honestly, I'm just showing the user one way, I anticipated him of being a newbie. For the record, it shows you all the process's happening.
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Thank you guys. You might not believe it, but I'm not a newb to Android or flashing. It's just that I've always been playing around with Samsung devices and there you'd normaly turn to Odin in case something went wrong. Here it's different.
Anyways, with this comprehensive guide I've been able to reflash a recovery image and my old rom. Unfortunately losing all of my data in the process, but there was no way to save it.
http://www.androidupdate.us/recover-bricked-device-fastboot/
In case this happens to anybody else.
Cheers