Ok, i have been doing some research, and there are seemingly more than one method to root the glacier. Can someone please tell me which method to follow? And all of them are from december so i am wondering if they still work. It looks like one of the methods requires you to use a computer to type code, while the other method allows you to use your phone to do this..idk..im confused.
Please explain in little detail the steps which need to be followed for me to gain permaroot S=off and be able to flash some ROMs.
Links to the steps would be appreciated !
thanks
This one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
speoples20 said:
This one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
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Yep. You can pretty much ignore all the prior methods, this is the fastest, easiest method with the highest success rate.
Ok! Thanks guys.
and also, I see you have Iced Glacier ROM. Have you tried the CM7 current release? If you have, which one do you like better...im having a hard time choosing which one to flash.
Zdravkobg said:
Ok! Thanks guys.
and also, I see you have Iced Glacier ROM. Have you tried the CM7 current release? If you have, which one do you like better...im having a hard time choosing which one to flash.
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CM7 is awesome, its still in early stages but everything pretty much works. The only thing that has issues is Qik, but Tango works. I recommend it my phone is awesome with CM7.
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im attempting to root my mytouch 4g, got it brand new today
i have been able to root 2 in the past with no difficulty but for some reason when i try and root im not successful.
right when i enter
"./gfree -f"
i get
"error reading input file"
any help would really be appreciated
i tried searching but couldnt find anything..
i was able to downgrade from 2.2.1 to 2.2
after trying to gfree, still not rooted and i cant get s-off
any advice?
Although im at 2.2 now my hboot is 86.0
Is this ok?
still no root,
i wonder if visionary permanently messed up my file system...
what sucks is that my wifi doesnt work now since i downgraded to 2.2....
Did you make g free executable?
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iblaststatic2020 said:
Did you make g free executable?
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yes i did.
im going to update it to 2.2.1 and hope that restructures my file system
that didnt work, i cleared cache and did a full restart
maybe mines is unrootable?
seems like perm root is just not going to happen for me, i dont even want s off , just temp root
just for my information, which is the correct method to root 2.2.1? there were just way to many how to's on here...
sheek360 said:
seems like perm root is just not going to happen for me, i dont even want s off , just temp root
just for my information, which is the correct method to root 2.2.1? there were just way to many how to's on here...
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all of the how to's are exactly the same. just different information in each one.
I unrooted my phone and followed This Walk-though and it worked perfectly. no if/ands/buts about it.
If that seems to complicated you can always follow The Unlockr's method it's REALLY simple and easy to follow.
neidlinger said:
all of the how to's are exactly the same. just different information in each one.
I unrooted my phone and followed This Walk-though and it worked perfectly. no if/ands/buts about it.
If that seems to complicated you can always follow The Unlockr's method it's REALLY simple and easy to follow.
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Same guide i followed (grank's)
And no phone is "unrootable"
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id rather not use visionary,
is it cool to just use this method on a 2.2.1 device?
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...4G:_Full_Update_Guide#Rooting_the_HTC_Glacier
i dont want to use visionary, its too automated lol
Awhile ago i tried rooting my phone with a tutorial from The Unlockr and it went well except i could get S to turn off and it would not perma root. Does anyone know of a tutorial for the newest version of Hboot that can root the phone? I found a tutorial that works with the G2 and Desire Z without ADB but i am not sure if it will work with the Mytouch 4g.
Sorry if this is in the wrong section and thanks in advance.
I see that you're new here. Please use the search function, this has been discussed a thousand times before.
HBoot 0.86.0000 is the bootloader that comes shipped with all Glaciers. It is NOT new and DOES NOT prevent you from rooting. The engineering bootloader (0.85.2007) is obtained either by flashing it manually or by using the root.sh method to root your phone, such as by following the instructions on theunlockr.com. If you ask most people, they'll recommend using the gfree method that is stickied in the development subforum for this device.
Well when i tried to root my phone the Hboot version in the tutorial was .84 and i realized that after i tried it again because i made a mistake but i did get it rooted but S was not turned off when it should have been and when i rebooted the phone was not rooted anymore and it ran terribly slow. Is there a way to sort of create an image of my phone so if anything goes wrong i just load it and my phone goes back to the way it was with all of the apps and such?
doat said:
Well when i tried to root my phone the Hboot version in the tutorial was .84 and i realized that after i tried it again because i made a mistake but i did get it rooted but S was not turned off when it should have been and when i rebooted the phone was not rooted anymore and it ran terribly slow. Is there a way to sort of create an image of my phone so if anything goes wrong i just load it and my phone goes back to the way it was with all of the apps and such?
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Not until you're rooted and have installed a custom recovery. Then you can make a Nandroid backup.
TeeJay3800 said:
Not until you're rooted and have installed a custom recovery. Then you can make a Nandroid backup.
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and with the Nandroid backup i can restore my phone to exactly the way it was before the root or to a point where i can unroot the phone?
doat said:
and with the Nandroid backup i can restore my phone to exactly the way it was before the root or to a point where i can unroot the phone?
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The backup will allow you to return your phone to stock state in every way except for root. You'll have follow a separate procedure to unroot your phone.
TeeJay3800 said:
The backup will allow you to return your phone to stock state in every way except for root. You'll have follow a separate procedure to unroot your phone.
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fantastic, can someone please link me to a tutorial that will work for me? Also what ROM would you guys suggest? I am looking to keep the phone's functions but I want something that will make the phone faster.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924923
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863899
Give those a read-through. I've never done them myself, but I'm pretty sure you don't use a backup to unroot and bring back to stock.
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fantastic, can someone please link me to a tutorial that will work for me? Also what ROM would you guys suggest? I am looking to keep the phone's functions but I want something that will make the phone faster.
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Royalglacier should work if you want sense or cyanogen if you want gingerbread or royalginger. Also what method of rooting did you use?
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doat said:
Also what ROM would you guys suggest? I am looking to keep the phone's functions but I want something that will make the phone faster.
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Do you want Sense or the vanilla Android look?
TeeJay3800 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924923
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863899
Give those a read-through. I've never done them myself, but I'm pretty sure you don't use a backup to unroot and bring back to stock.
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There's the stock nandroid listed in development. Not sure if it will unroot though. But if you want to just restore everything (and unroot) copy the PD15IMG.ZIP to your SD and boot into bootloader
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Nicgraner said:
Royalglacier should work if you want sense or cyanogen if you want gingerbread or royalginger. Also what method of rooting did you use?
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I cannot post links yet but it involved the Terminal Emulator Method
3a. Start terminal emulator up on your device.(I prefer this method b/c you can see the output.)
a. type "su" + enter to gain root privileges.
b. Type "cd /sdcard/root" + enter.
c. Type "sh root.sh" + enter.
d. Follow the on screen prompts.
Which is best Gingerbread, royalginger, or sense? I read that gingerbread is great.
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Do you want Sense or the vanilla Android look?
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Can you show me both? I am fairly new to the smartphone world lol.
doat said:
Which is best Gingerbread, royalginger, or sense? I read that gingerbread is great.
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You're confusing terms. Gingerbread is just Google's code name for Android 2.3. RoyalGinger is a specific Gingerbread-based ROM. Sense is another type of ROM (my personal favorite because the UI is so attractive). The best Sense ROM in my opinion is in my sig.
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Can you show me both? I am fairly new to the smartphone world lol.
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Just go a Google Image or YouTube seach for HTC Sense, and check out what the UI looks like. The other UI is the standard Android look that ROMs like CM7 and RoyalGinger have.
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You're confusing terms. Gingerbread is just Google's code name for Android 2.3. RoyalGinger is a specific Gingerbread-based ROM. Sense is another type of ROM (my personal favorite because the UI is so attractive). The best Sense ROM in my opinion is in my sig.
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I figured the Ginger roms were similar since they are both called Ginger lol. Well as i said i am looking to keep the phone's functions but just make it faster with a light rom or something like that.
I just checked out both interfaces and I like the Android UI better than sense, especially the new droid UI.
doat said:
fantastic, can someone please link me to a tutorial that will work for me? Also what ROM would you guys suggest? I am looking to keep the phone's functions but I want something that will make the phone faster.
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Go with RoyalGlacier to keep the phone fully functional and hassel free. Its a faster version of stock. Evil's Desire HD rom is also a good choice for a pure sense experience. Everything works on both rom's.
Lakeshow423 said:
Go with RoyalGlacier to keep the phone fully functional and hassel free. Its a faster version of stock. Evil's Desire HD rom is also a good choice for a pure sense experience. Everything works on both rom's.
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Awesome that is exactly what i want, pretty much the same thing as stock but faster. Now i just need to find a tutorial that will work with my phone and back it up. Is it difficult to install ROMs for a noob? Also how is the battery life on RoyalGlacier?
doat said:
Awesome that is exactly what i want, pretty much the same thing as stock but faster. Now i just need to find a tutorial that will work with my phone and back it up. Is it difficult to install ROMs for a noob? Also how is the battery life on RoyalGlacier?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858021 read this tutorial. The second part is the instructions on how to flash. There is a YouTube video made by mackster also. Read carefully then make a backup (nandroid) before anything. Happy flashing!
New exploit works with Gingerbread!
Here's a channel log of the first successful root process:
http://fishporn.ca/vision.gingerbread.root.html
Credit goes to
agrabren and teamwin- for Fre3vo and helping Guhl
Guhl-Helping get through the process
Hymie(BRad Barnett)- Cleaning up the log and posting...and his website =]
Cimer-For being the Guinea pig
i witnessed, so i confirm.
I know some people gonna piss there pants over this! Happy for you guys!
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awesome now we wait for a guide.
It worked, some others might need a guide though. I followed what he did and flashed back to the stock ROM that shipped with it. And easy rooting from there.
BRad Barnett said:
New exploit works with Gingerbread!
Here's a channel log of the first successful root process:
http://fishporn.ca/vision.gingerbread.root.html
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does this work on the offical leaked gingerbread rom for the G2? if so can someone out there make a guide of step by step because i really want to root this phone...damn tmobile for sending me a G2 with gingerbread on it!
Awesome! You guys rock!
sweet please someone get the how to guide working I NEED TO ROOT MY RETARDED OTA GINGERBREAD!!!! g2
you and me both man! im dieing to root this and get some CM7 =D
Ok so looking through that log it seems you can downgrade without a sd card??
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip PC10IMG.zip
Many people including myself haven't been able to get the bootloader to pick up the PC10IMG.zip file so would using this command work instead?
Yeah you can downgrade without putting the PC10IMG.zip on the sdcard with that method.
You may still need an sdcard to use as a goldcard though if you don't have a supported CID.
-Nipqer
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Yeah you can downgrade without putting the PC10IMG.zip on the sdcard with that method.
You may still need an sdcard to use as a goldcard though if you don't have a supported CID.
-Nipqer
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Thanks for the confirmation.
This info should be updated to all downgrade/root guides because none of them state this!
few days after releasing gingerbread upgrade (and kernel sources?)!
thanks for the great news!
made a happy morning to all people who upgraded without thinking about rooting their phone (including me...)
Doing this right now, almost done! These guys are amazing! I've been missing CM7 SOOO MUCH!!!!
Does this thing apply also to the Desire Z?
Great news. Thanks everybody!
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Does this thing apply also to the Desire Z?
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At least the temp root worked for my Desire Z! The exact exploit area address was not same but very near the one presented in the log.
However, I wasn't brave enough to proceed downgrading because I am rather new to this stuff, not sure about compatible/proper ROM versions and what guide to follow as my Desire Z probably has quite fresh OTA firmware.
Baseband: 12.56.60.25U_26.10.04.03_M
Kernel: 2.6.35.10-g7b95729
Build: 2.42.405.2 CL84109 release-keys
I forgot to follow up. I successfully went from the nasty 2.3.3 leak back to CM7 heaven. So nice to be back to it after like three months!
Jigga0o7 said:
I forgot to follow up. I successfully went from the nasty 2.3.3 leak back to CM7 heaven. So nice to be back to it after like three months!
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hey man, if its not too much trouble you think you can wrote a step or step guide on how to downgrade this....ima noob and the logg dosent seem to help me and im dieing to go back to CM7
a guide would be helpful, thanks =)
Nasty skills! This is awesome news! Congratz guys!!
ive been around this board for a while but lurk 90% of the time. i found out how to flash android 2.3.4 on my phone last night and im having a blast. i have a tablet that has honeycomb on it and i enjoy that better but cant carry around a tablet 24/7. does anyone know of a flash for honeycomb that i can preform. i dont know how to root and afraid of bricking my phone. thanks in advance
and maybe a sense 3.0 or 3.5 flash as well.
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and maybe a sense 3.0 or 3.5 flash as well.
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virtuous unity.
pure sense 3.0, pure awesomeness.
here's the MT4G thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1143177&
and here is their website plus download link: http://www.virtuousrom.com/
happy flashing.
YOU MUST HAVE PERM ROOT ACCESS AND S-OFF.
Can you point me in the easy way to root with s off
93pgt said:
Can you point me in the easy way to root with s off
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Need an easy way to root with s-off ? Refer this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17901805&postcount=2
93pgt said:
Can you point me in the easy way to root with s off
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The method this person posted also includes the engineering hBoot, which is not required to flash anything.
and if the one line code is interned incorrectly you will brick your device
febycv said:
Need an easy way to root with s-off ? Refer this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17901805&postcount=2
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The Root.sh link in my signature doesn't make you do that.
Heres a new root method to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1270561&highlight=1+click+root
I'd love to get root on my MT4G, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I've tried the guides. Every time I get Visionary + running, I just get a black screen (aside from my notification bar) and it never goes any further. What should I do? I don't have root when this happens and I can't get it to go any further.
kamui957 said:
I'd love to get root on my MT4G, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I've tried the guides. Every time I get Visionary + running, I just get a black screen (aside from my notification bar) and it never goes any further. What should I do? I don't have root when this happens and I can't get it to go any further.
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You can't root with the 2.3.4 upgrade. None of the methods works, not even Visionary.
To root your phone, you need to downgrade to stock 2.2.1
Now use root methods like visionary, root.sh, gfree
Wow... I think I'm looking at the right guide for this... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832642)
That's a lot of work... Just to make sure, if you perma-root, can you upgrade back to gingerbread and still use root apps, etc?
kamui957 said:
Wow... I think I'm looking at the right guide for this... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832642)
That's a lot of work... Just to make sure, if you perma-root, can you upgrade back to gingerbread and still use root apps, etc?
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there are a lot of roms out there that have gingerbread 2.3 for the MT4G.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
Use this guide to downgrade. Yes you can upgrade using GB roms after pemroot.
Thanks, I'm midway through using it now. Though, trying to find a link to a Stock GB Rom with root permissions... there isn't one in the resource bible so I'm hoofing it through the Developement board. I know I'm asking a lot, but anyone got a link to one?
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Thanks, I'm midway through using it now. Though, trying to find a link to a Stock GB Rom with root permissions... there isn't one in the resource bible so I'm hoofing it through the Developement board. I know I'm asking a lot, but anyone got a link to one?
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Yes, there is a rooted version of the stock 2.3.4 Rom. Just go through the link in my signature.
You can use it after you are permrooted.
... I swear I am usually a lot more observant than that, lol. Thanks a lot ^^.