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1 click root for Evo and Hero?

Ok THIS is cool (if it works)
http://www.unrevoked.com/

The code from it is what Regaw used in his thread on how to root 2.1. I just downloaded and it is an apk. I'm still rooted from 1.5 but it appears you can download from your phone and run the app and then you have root.
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i dont know if it works for hero users, but ive read quite a few success stories over at the evo forums.

I had a sneaking suspicion that the key to rooting the Hero was going to be tied to the Evo. The Evo gets rooted soon after Google I/O and they held the code back to get it done until evo release day, which makes sense. I'm quite happy with how things are looking. When I eventually scrape the pennies together to get the Evo I'll be able to root it easily.

That's going to be a lot of pennies. I told one of the guys from work I was getting the Evo and he was like "son of a b!tch" I can't afford one right now, but the look on his face was funny.
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&RoidRage said:
That's going to be a lot of pennies. I told one of the guys from work I was getting the Evo and he was like "son of a b!tch" I can't afford one right now, but the look on his face was funny.
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I can get one at new subscriber rates in 11 months. I'm hoping that in 6 months the Evo is old and busted and there will people dumping it for brand new hotness. What I'd really like is an Evo specced phone without 4G or it's upcharge.

gunnyman said:
I can get one at new subscriber rates in 11 months. I'm hoping that in 6 months the Evo is old and busted and there will people dumping it for brand new hotness. What I'd really like is an Evo specced phone without 4G or it's upcharge.
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Plus 1 on that! I'm not unhappy with my Hero though. I AM sort of regretting getting the Hero, because now I want the cool new phones! Actually, I'll blame it on the Instinct and being on the everything family plan, which give me premier account status, where I get the full upgrade every year...

&RoidRage said:
The code from it is what Regaw used in his thread on how to root 2.1. I just downloaded and it is an apk. I'm still rooted from 1.5 but it appears you can download from your phone and run the app and then you have root.
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Maybe Regaw will chime in on this and tell us what's going on with it, and if someone just took his work and turned it into an app.

Confirmed
I confirm this 1 click root does work on the Hero. Love this method. Great work from the developers.

jporter12 said:
Maybe Regaw will chime in on this and tell us what's going on with it, and if someone just took his work and turned it into an app.
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if you read his rooting guide, you will see that they collaborated.

did it root with 2.1, or with 2.1+the ota update that was recently released?

instructions
I went to the web address....there are no instructions on how to use it. Do you download to your phone or to your computer?

On your phone.
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nemesys504 said:
I confirm this 1 click root does work on the Hero. Love this method. Great work from the developers.
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I too did this, but now my Hero won't update the weather and I can't access the market...something about a data connection error.
Anyone else experiencing this?

oops, make that "a network error has occurred"

unrEVOked is a one-click-root tool by mmastrac who also got a lot of help from the likes of toastcfh, maejrep, and some other guys.
The exploit behind the tool is the exact same one used in Regawmod's root for 2.1, just the boot.img was patched to play nicely with our phones.
Then again, I don't see why this is in the development section.

so.. lol im not to new to this but is this flashing a recovery? or just gaining root and adding su ect ect.
well i will find out in a min either way lol
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worked perfectly, no problems here.

Is there any chance this has messed with my Hero? I can't get online and weather won't display or connect. I have done multiple soft resets. Is there something I am forgetting to do? I downloaded and ran the unrevoked apk.

try loading a custom rom.
or call customer service, Sprint shut off my data for now reason last week and couldnt tell me how it happend.
does the phone make calls? sms? mms?

Well, I did another soft reset, but this time pulled the battery and waited several minutes. The network access came back, weather started working again, etc. So then I downloaded/installed wireless tether and started to play with that but then the network access went down again. I can't figure out if its Sprint getting screwy or this phone

Root MT4G

Posting this for what it is worth . . .
Played around with a MT4G and it will gain root by using VISIONary, BUT even with root access I was unable to write to system as it was r/o and would not let me change it using Root Explorer. I would have to rerun VISIONary after reboot as well to regain root access.
Jrbourque walked me through a couple things and we couldn't get it to work.
Just throwing it out there to see if anyone had the same issue or if it was just me.
Will have access to the phone again tomorrow if anyone has any ideas.

mikeyboc said:
Posting this for what it is worth . . .
Played around with a MT4G and it will gain root by using VISIONary, BUT even with root access I was unable to write to system as it was r/o and would not let me change it using Root Explorer. I would have to rerun VISIONary after reboot as well to regain root access.
Jrbourque walked me through a couple things and we couldn't get it to work.
Just throwing it out there to see if anyone had the same issue or if it was just me.
Will have access to the phone again tomorrow if anyone has any ideas.
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I have run into the same exact issue. The phone rooted with VISIONary, Superuser allowed access to the programs requiring root but it seemed to give strange issues afterwards; i.e. adfree worked intermittently, then showed no root access when attempting to check for updates -- VISIONary showed that the device was already rooted.
I guess I am spoiled - I am so used to being fully rooted with other devices that I almost forgot about the ads

That doesn't mean anything though.... We may still be able to use unrevoked method because it comes with Sense UI.

borodin1 said:
That doesn't mean anything though.... We may still be able to use unrevoked method because it comes with Sense UI.
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I can try that tomorrow. If you can link me to the information needed, I will give it a shot in the morning.

Yeah just run the EVO's root method on the mytouch, it should work

Whosdaman said:
Yeah just run the EVO's root method on the mytouch, it should work
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I wouldn't do that just yet. I'd let some smart people get in hold of this phone and try it first. Not implying that anyone is not smart, just saying that it may not be a good idea until unrevoked folks confirm it themselves.

borodin1 said:
I wouldn't do that just yet. I'd let some smart people get in hold of this phone and try it first. Not implying that anyone is not smart, just saying that it may not be a good idea until unrevoked folks confirm it themselves.
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eh, someone has got to start somewhere. And since the official rom is already out cant you just reflash the phone?

Just got my demo from work and am willing to try the rooting process. will need some assistance since I've only been doing work on the galaxy s vibrant phone.

stoute said:
Just got my demo from work and am willing to try the rooting process. will need some assistance since I've only been doing work on the galaxy s vibrant phone.
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You've been warned
I would go into MyTouch Slide section rather then Evo and get all needed info from there.

borodin1 said:
You've been warned
I would go into MyTouch Slide section rather then Evo and get all needed info from there.
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I'll try that and see what happens... Hope to not brick the phone... That would be a $500 oops...

stoute said:
I'll try that and see what happens... Hope to not brick the phone... That would be a $500 oops...
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You're one brave individual and I salute you for that! Good luck!

Wouldn't surprise me if the MT4G is using the same protection as the G2.

Sooo has anyone tried it yet?

jfwfreo said:
Wouldn't surprise me if the MT4G is using the same protection as the G2.
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Cyanogen says it is not a lock protection but a bug in NAND.

Big Dawg 23 said:
Cyanogen says it is not a lock protection but a bug in NAND.
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Did he get this phone?

Whosdaman said:
Did he get this phone?
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i think he's talking about the G2

so.. will users be able to overclock the mytouch 4g just like the tmobile g2?

im assuming all those with the mt4g already are tmo employees?
sure wish i could get a job there, applied and they said no. even though ive sold android phones in tmobile before as a customer!! LOL

Assuming only temproot is achieved on the mt4g (at least for the time being), would that still allow you to remove some of the bloatware on the phone? For example, I've read some of the pre-installed game demos/icons can't be deleted from the home screen...can you remove those with temproot? If so, would they come back after a reboot and require a 1-click temproot after each reboot, or if removed after temproot would they stay gone after reboot?

netter123 said:
Assuming only temproot is achieved on the mt4g (at least for the time being), would that still allow you to remove some of the bloatware on the phone? For example, I've read some of the pre-installed game demos/icons can't be deleted from the home screen...can you remove those with temproot? If so, would they come back after a reboot and require a 1-click temproot after each reboot, or if removed after temproot would they stay gone after reboot?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809231
Read first post there. This method will let you completely disable any app you want. They will still be present in the phone but they will permanently (or until you enable them) disappear from launcher and will not be hogging your precious RAM memory and CPU cycles.

Let me know when you get your Atrix!

Hey guys, shout out and let me know if you get your Atrix today and if you are rooting!
Curios to see how big the community is

designgears said:
Hey guys, shout out and let me know if you get your Atrix today and if you are rooting!
Curios to see how big the community is
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On the truck for delivery right now. I'll be rooting as soon as I get home to grab it, then running a restore of my apps through TiBu.

I want to, but this is my first Android phone and I'm new to all this. The tutorial doesn't back up before the whole process, so I'm wary.
How do I run a backup before proceeding with the breifmobile tutorial?

hopefully my store receives it in its shipment today

FNugget said:
I want to, but this is my first Android phone and I'm new to all this. The tutorial doesn't back up before the whole process, so I'm wary.
How do I run a backup before proceeding with the breifmobile tutorial?
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You can't, because you need root to backup.
But seriously, rooting is not dangerous at all. All it does is pushes a root exploit to your phone, runs it, then once it has temp root, it pushes su and installs superuser.
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Mine should get here within the next couple of hours. (not really mine, its for my GF, to replace her N1)
I'll be rooting and installing ADW after its charged.

Mines on the truck out for delivery as well.
I'm sure I will root after some more reading. This is my first android and I look forward to tweaking it to the max as I have done with my winmo devices in the past. Root access seems to be right up my alley but I'm always kind timid when it comes to possibly voiding the waranty on my shiny new gadget.
Thanks designgears for your part in rooting this device. I'm very happy to see this information already available for when I am ready to take that step.

Well, as i live in the UK, i won't be able to report anything soon. Might consider getting it from America and hoping to God someone finds a way to unlock it. Expensive but might be worth it. I want one. Sucks

On the truck for delivery. I'll root tonight and commence playing.

TheEscapist said:
But seriously, rooting is not dangerous at all. All it does is pushes a root exploit to your phone, runs it, then once it has temp root, it pushes su and installs superuser.
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Thanks for this simplified explanation. Makes me think more and more that I will be rooting sooner rather than later.
I hear that it is easy to unroot for warranty purposes. Is that true?

Mine should be here soon! I am so excited. can wait to root it, first thing! then maybe I will you know, in stall my SIM and maybe use it as a phone, but hacking comes first. Glad to have DG here and in support of this phone, makes me a little happier with it.

Mine is on truck for delivery to my local store. Will post here once I get it. Been Loyal Windows mobile user for 4 years and tried may cooked up ROMs.

Should be here today too!! Ill be rooting right when I get home too so I can restore my apps too!
Droid Incredible Rooted!

killerb7854 said:
Thanks for this simplified explanation. Makes me think more and more that I will be rooting sooner rather than later.
I hear that it is easy to unroot for warranty purposes. Is that true?
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Yep, just remove superuser and /system/xbin/su. Its a simple as starting up an adb shell, and deleting those two.
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TheEscapist said:
Yep, just remove superuser and /system/xbin/su. Its a simple as starting up an adb shell, and deleting those two.
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Thanks again. Looks like I'll be rooting immediately after I get done playing with and familiarizing myself with the new device and OS.
Where is that Fedex guy!

Mine is on the truck for delivery and will be rooting tonight as soon as I get home

It's here!!!! Will be rooting asap

I HAD TO GO TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kids/Wife are home so hopefully it shows up... there's a snow storm though and the delivery guys are notorious for just not delivering in the snow... they drive by the houses they're supposed to and if they're not shoveled and salted they don't even get out of the truck... just drive on by.
I shoveled the entire route to my house from the road... lol.. it's not short.

jiggytom said:
It's here!!!! Will be rooting asap
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Damn you beat me to it, I'm still waiting on FedEx...

jiggytom said:
It's here!!!! Will be rooting asap
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GAAAAHHHHHH!!!! lol

Don't understand rooting the Nexus S 4G

Had a long talk with a very cool Sprint rep. about the new Nexus S 4G. He talked completely off the record. Said the phone was completely 'open' so no need for rooting. He said I could install ROM Mgr. Wireless tether, etc., out of the box. But I am hearing of people rooting it. Why?

You need root for SU access. I doubt sprint has it pre-rooted.
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You still have to root it. Its just really really easy.
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StormCell said:
Had a long talk with a very cool Sprint rep. about the new Nexus S 4G. He talked completely off the record. Said the phone was completely 'open' so no need for rooting. He said I could install ROM Mgr. Wireless tether, etc., out of the box. But I am hearing of people rooting it. Why?
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The rep is confusing "rooting" to mean "hacking" the phone.
Phones with locked bootloaders and such need to be hacked in order to obtain root, hence the slang "rooting"
With the nexus phones, unlocking the bootloader requires no hacking, it's a simple fastboot command.
You still have to install su to have superuser (root) privileges of course.

Thanks Netarchy. I use your Kernels on my EVO. You rock. I'm trying to figure out the best way to root the S4G on my MacIntel. I looked at the Mac rooting sticky but it looks way confusing and it's a pretty old post. Any direction you or anyone else could provide would be a huge solid. Mucho gracias.

matt2053 said:
You still have to root it. Its just really really easy.
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I had all the iPhones, jailbroken, and switched on the day the EVO came out. Haven't looked back. It took me weeks and weeks of research before i was confident enough to root (and all the new words I had to learn).
I am not finding that rooting the S4G is going to be easy.....

StormCell said:
Thanks Netarchy. I use your Kernels on my EVO. You rock. I'm trying to figure out the best way to root the S4G on my MacIntel. I looked at the Mac rooting sticky but it looks way confusing and it's a pretty old post. Any direction you or anyone else could provide would be a huge solid. Mucho gracias.
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Actually, rooting on a Mac is even easier than a PC. You don't even need to install any special drivers. Simply plug in your phone, boot into recovery.
Then use the terminal to run the adb fastboot commands from the platform-tools folder in the sdk folder (I cant recall exactly what it is...there's guides in the Dev forums for the NexS).
Honestly, it took me less than 5 minutes, and I had never had an android or rooted before when I did it.
UPDATE: Follow this guide. It looks daunting at first glance, but there's only 2-3 technical steps.
Now granted, you are on a 4g version. I wouldn't just automatically follow that guide, because I can't say 100% that it'll work in that way for you. The actual steps are probably the same, but you should make sure that the files to flash are going to be the same. I'd wait for a bit til a guide comes out confirming it.

Not seeing a solid looking thread about rooting the 4g
Is that because the old Nexus S rooting directions apply to the 4g?
Eager to root but want to make sure I do it right, first timer here.
Thanks!

The bulk of the work in those rooting guides is to get drivers to work when your phone is connected via usb and to get adb to correctly communicate commands between the 2 while the bootloader is running.
I waited a few days before I have the guts to do it, but it was very simple to do once I got the PC set up. Out of all the phones (Hero's and EVO's) this was by far the simplest. In fact I used the EVO One Click root method on my EVO and I hated the fact I wasn't in control of the process. It's much better to adb and see the process work, always.

Root on 3d maybe Shift too?

Just throwin out there. Andbody think our devs maybe able to use the same exploit? Or similar exploit? I mean maybe our devs can go back and find a similar hole in our kernel?
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Well just tried the Evo3D temp root on the wifey's Shift and got all the way to the exploit+FAIL "exploit will not work on this device". Dam! But the Dev said on Twitter that it might work on other devices with a few tweaks.
https://twitter.com/#!/agrabren
Just thought I'd post to try to add some help to those of you who ran the OTA and lost root. Thought if it worked it would give one of our Dev's here a hole to get root back on the ole Shifty!

I tried the same exploit and just received an error that this device isn't supported. Here is the thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149998 I am not sure how it does it.. but maybe it could help?

Bummer...I was hoping it might work.

stormchaser404 said:
Bummer...I was hoping it might work.
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Me too but I am sure it does a device check first. There may be a way but I just don't know how I really hope there is a root discovered soon..

Lol yall are playing with fire! Just wait till the devs get a exploit cus u cant unbrick your phone if u mess up the bootloader and ruu
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Agreed...I'm waiting patiently. If there's no root in another week or so, I'll just reactivate my old Pre and wait it out, then switch back.

That we are , but with risk comes reward. What if it would've given us temp root? Maybe put us in the same boat as the 3d as far as it would put shift devs that much closer to a perm root method for those that took the OTA update.
Just my opinion but i see your point .
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stormchaser404 said:
Agreed...I'm waiting patiently. If there's no root in another week or so, I'll just reactivate my old Pre and wait it out, then switch back.
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Is the old pre better than an unrooted shift or something?

Nope! Lol
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Stuke00 said:
Is the old pre better than an unrooted shift or something?
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Well, for me, yes it is. The big thing for me is wifi hotspot, which you can't do on an un-rooted Shift. And honestly, I like the HP WebOS better than Android, but the lack of new apps and several other short comings pushed me over. Overall, I really like my Shift, but I need to get it rooted sooner than later or will need to go back to my Pre for a while.