Im going to root a friends mytouch4g using this guide http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Glacier:_Full_Update_Guide. But then i found out about bad eMMC chips and what not. What are the chances that his phone has the bad chip?Should i just save him the trouble and not root it just so he doesnt run the risk of his phone bricking.
There is a easy way to check if he does or not. Should be on the first coupe pages in general.
If he does have a bad chip there is a possibility it could fail. However, I know a few members who have rooted with the bad chip and nothing happens. The whole its gonna fail thing is a little blown out of portion. Albeit there is still a higher chance then the other chip. Btw with thr bad chip you can only use the gfree method.
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evo4gnoob said:
Im going to root a friends mytouch4g using this guide http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Glacier:_Full_Update_Guide. But then i found out about bad eMMC chips and what not. What are the chances that his phone has the bad chip?Should i just save him the trouble and not root it just so he doesnt run the risk of his phone bricking.
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well, you should check which chip he has first...
type this in terminal emulator (free download from market)
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cat /sys/class/block/mmcblk0/device/name
if it comes out with SEM04G, then he's safe, that's the good chip.
if it results with M4G2DE, then you should let HIM decide. although he IS talking a risk, a lot of M4G2DE (bad chip) users have reported of having absolutely no issues with flashing at all after rooting.
mark manning said:
There is a easy way to check if he does or not. Should be on the first coupe pages I'm general.
If he does have a bad chip there is a possibility it could fail. However, I know a few members who have rooted with the bad chip and nothing happens. The whole its gonna fail thing is a little blown out of portion. Albeit there is still a higher chance then the other chip. Btw with thr bad chip you can only use the gfree method.
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So if I try the visionary root method and it fails that means I have to use gfree to root and that would mean it has a bad eMMC chip correct?
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So if I try the visionary root method and it fails that means I have to use gfree to root and that would mean it has a bad eMMC chip correct?
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That's one way but use what was posted below to make things easier
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saranhai said:
well, you should check which chip he has first...
type this in terminal emulator (free download from market)
Code:
cat /sys/class/block/mmcblk0/device/name
if it comes out with SEM04G, then he's safe, that's the good chip.
if it results with M4G2DE, then you should let HIM decide. although he IS talking a risk, a lot of M4G2DE (bad chip) users have reported of having absolutely no issues with flashing at all after rooting.
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Just texted him to check I'm suppose to root it tomorrow
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saranhai said:
well, you should check which chip he has first...
type this in terminal emulator (free download from market)
Code:
cat /sys/class/block/mmcblk0/device/name
if it comes out with SEM04G, then he's safe, that's the good chip.
if it results with M4G2DE, then you should let HIM decide. although he IS talking a risk, a lot of M4G2DE (bad chip) users have reported of having absolutely no issues with flashing at all after rooting.
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I have the SEM04G chip but the only way I could root my phone was the gfree method.every other failed. Any reason why?
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sdizzy101 said:
I have the SEM04G chip but the only way I could root my phone was the gfree method.every other failed. Any reason why?
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Just wondering but does he have android 2.2.1 or 2.3.4?
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but hey I did it and everything works. Its so much harder than rooting a G Tab
Djapatos said:
but hey I did it and everything works. Its so much harder than rooting a G Tab
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I guess you have never rooted a G1 or MyTouch. Some you even need to make what is call a Goldcard just to root. The Vibrant is pathetically simple.
it's my first android phone and it's really simple. Even a caveman can do it.
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Binary100100 said:
I guess you have never rooted a G1 or MyTouch. Some you even need to make what is call a Goldcard just to root. The Vibrant is pathetically simple.
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WORD.
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You think the vibrant is hard to root?
Try installing a Nand Android on a HTC HD2 for the very first time. It literally took me an hour and a half to research and install Android.
The vibrant is the only phone that I can root and install a custom rom without connecting it to a PC.
Yeah it was super easy... too bad all phones can't have Odin .
At first a mytouch slide was no piece of cake either not sure abot now a days
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At first a mytouch slide was no piece of cake either not sure abot now a days
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It still sucks.
Takes 5 minutes to root a vibrant...if you don't know what you're doing.
The cliq and vibrant are a piece of cake to root! Android on a hd2 the first time , mytouch slide, mytouch 1.2 are hard as he'll to root!
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but hey I did it and everything works. Its so much harder than rooting a G Tab
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You didn't just use the Vibrant toolbox? The Vibrant was cake. Way easier than trying to root the new EVO's.. At least last I checked they still didn't have an easy option to do that
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I guess you have never rooted a G1 or MyTouch. Some you even need to make what is call a Goldcard just to root. The Vibrant is pathetically simple.
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+1 to everything you said. G1 and Mytouch3g were a pain in the ass. The vibrant takes minutes to root.
Binary100100 said:
I guess you have never rooted a G1 or MyTouch. Some you even need to make what is call a Goldcard just to root. The Vibrant is pathetically simple.
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Also+ 1
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I have rooted 4 androids to date... the easiest was definitely the vibrant. My mytouch was a pain. The optimus t and mytouch slide werent that bad.
it literally takes about 3 minutes if you read the instructions. Whats so hard about that?
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I guess you have never rooted a G1 or MyTouch. Some you even need to make what is call a Goldcard just to root. The Vibrant is pathetically simple.
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Jesus christ don't remind me.
Formatting SD
partitioning it going back to rc28 putting weird commands in the terminal it was demonic to root a g1 in the beginning.
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Alanrocks15 said:
Jesus christ don't remind me.
Formatting SD
partitioning it going back to rc28 putting weird commands in the terminal it was demonic to root a g1 in the beginning.
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Lol yeah, I didn't root my g1 until I got my vibrant, I was too scared to but after rooting my g1 I looked into rooting my vibrant and wound up rooting both in the same day. The vibrant was so easy and quick to root.
Alanrocks15 said:
Jesus christ don't remind me.
Formatting SD
partitioning it going back to rc28 putting weird commands in the terminal it was demonic to root a g1 in the beginning.
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Manually puttig in codes for partitioning the SD card was a pain too, when the recovery didnt do its job. HD2 was easy too lol, before the VIbrant i had a HD2 and Nand was easy
That's because you don't even have to root the gtab. Put clockwork and the rom on the sd, vol+ and power and boom! Instant gratification.
Check usb debugging-dl z4root app from 4shared.com-root
Takes less than 2 minutes.
Derp
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Hi guys. I am looking for the easiest perm root method ever. I've tried many methods and failed all. Please help.
Thanks in advance
P.S. take it easy on me. I'm only 13
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longhorn24 said:
Hi guys. I am looking for the easiest perm root method ever. I've tried many methods and failed all. Please help.
Thanks in advance
P.S. take it easy on me. I'm only 13
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I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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h22aboi said:
I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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hahahaahaa yes i totally agree
your other thread was answered so either do the research yourself or take the advice you were already given...
h22aboi said:
I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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Well seeing how I'm 15 and (and starting football and powerlifting camp today) building my own roms and a tester for TeamRoyal it can't be too hard but really to the OP you can't post multiple times, its a good way to get your question dismissed by the community. But to actually answer your question, the easiest would probably be the gfree method which is stickied in the development page.
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hahahaahaa yes i totally agree
your other thread was answered so either do the research yourself or take the advice you were already given...
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I agree the same. At least try to keep the thing in only one post.
To root my MyTouch 4G took me over a week, of reading extensive posts here on XDA. Until i got it with the Link that i Posted on your last Discussion.
So every step, from the beginning, slowly. When you see that something is not going right, stop, and tell us Exactly what is happening
And yes, PERMROOT Wont give you special powers to show offf to your friends. Most likely if you do something wrong, say bye to that phone or have ready 100 $ to pay someone to fix it for you.
I just want root to install custom roms. I had a Samsung vibrant before and it was so easy to root.
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You people are funny with the whole root giving power thing, but I swear root gave me +100hp and eng hboot gave +100mp extra. But ya rooting is easy and you don't even need a PC. Story behind it...
I lost my HD2 (Leo1024) as it was my first dev-phone so I heavily modded it and few had personal things I never even released to public so now some prick walking around with it. When this happened dual core based phone the LG-Opt2x and Moto-Atrix (dual core) was still 4months behind and I couldn't wait for it so next best thing I got was MT4G (spec wise DHD-US model), so week before I got MT4G I did total run down from known issues with MT4G to root, ect. So I walk in to the TMoStore and the rep try to "sell" me MT4G so I told the guy save yourself some trouble I already know about the device and so we can skip all this BS and wanted to for it direct.
So I told him to open the box so I can verify it was superior display (by then we already knew about inferior SH model). So he started asking other silly questions how hard it was rooting and back then the meth was lil weird as you needed battery pull. Since I lost my phone they verified my account and gave me a new simcard free and provisioned my line on the spot. So I downloaded all the files needed from my phone for TheUnlockr meth to SDCard and rooted it in front of him using TempROOT (VISIONary+) and PermROOT (root.sh).
So what exactly is the easiest way?
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longhorn24 said:
So what exactly is the easiest way?
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Follow the TheUnlockr meth which takes 1min to root using VISIONary+ to obtain TempROOT and when you have it you can get PermROOT by running root.sh script.
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So what exactly is the easiest way?
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OMG. IM NOT kidding this time. I GAVE YOU THE D*$%N link dude!.
Use that one. IS the easiest and asured way!!! One more time;.. you dont ned to ADB files, you barely need a PC only to transfer like ONE file to your SD card, y even told you what App to use instead the PAID app ( root Explorer).
Why better not ask to send your phone to someone and root it for free?!
Send it to me and ill do it, but Stop asking the same question if you are not even trying to READ the post that i gave you.
Dont want to go back to your older post and finde the link, ill paste it again for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
I DID THIS and i already have used 3 Roms, in the last 3 days. Im only asking you to read. If you Fail one Step, Let us know, and we will HELP.
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Follow the TheUnlockr meth which takes 1min to root using VISIONary+ to obtain TempROOT and when you have it you can get PermROOT by running root.sh script.
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The Unlockr Method does not work on all MyTouch 4G FYI. I tried doing it that way, and it failed all the time, unitl i found this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
I tried ur method 1 more time and it said error reading input
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When does it says that?
longhorn24 said:
I tried ur method 1 more time and it said error reading input
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Nicgraner said:
Well seeing how I'm 15 and (and starting football and powerlifting camp today) building my own roms and a tester for TeamRoyal it can't be too hard but really to the OP you can't post multiple times, its a good way to get your question dismissed by the community. But to actually answer your question, the easiest would probably be the gfree method which is stickied in the development page.
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You really had to mention teh football, and powerlifting camp thing? All it really says is you don't do either of those and the only connection to the football team you have is when they are beating you up and down your highschools hallways
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OMG. IM NOT kidding this time. I GAVE YOU THE D*$%N link dude!.
Use that one. IS the easiest and asured way!!! One more time;.. you dont ned to ADB files, you barely need a PC only to transfer like ONE file to your SD card, y even told you what App to use instead the PAID app ( root Explorer).
Why better not ask to send your phone to someone and root it for free?!
Send it to me and ill do it, but Stop asking the same question if you are not even trying to READ the post that i gave you.
Dont want to go back to your older post and finde the link, ill paste it again for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
I DID THIS and i already have used 3 Roms, in the last 3 days. Im only asking you to read. If you Fail one Step, Let us know, and we will HELP.
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Hey Longhorn, Im a complete NOOB and I used this method and it worked. I dont think theres an easier way than this. No PC needed, Love it.
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You really had to mention teh football, and powerlifting camp thing? All it really says is you don't do either of those and the only connection to the football team you have is when they are beating you up and down your highschools hallways
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Hahaha ok whatever you want to think bro, because I'm pretty sure I'm center on my jv team number 57. So yea and trying to make me look bad doesn't really solve the problem just changes the subject.
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The Unlockr Method does not work on all MyTouch 4G FYI. I tried doing it that way, and it failed all the time, unitl i found this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
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If the root.sh method doesn't work chance are you have a bad eMMC and you will permanently brick your phone
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Hi I'm just wondering has anyone had the bad emmc problem with their dhd?
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Anyone?
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Just been reading on the issue and just want to see if dhd suffer from this , I just don't want my device to brick .
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NAND, as with any other type of storage, is efemeral. It will go bad some day.
Compared to say, Magnetic HDD's, NAND is very small lived. Reading does not waste it much, but writing, that's the killer.
We will have bad eMMC. Yet, nand drivers are god at detecting bad blocks and marking them as so. You'll loose some kb for each block, but it's not that much
Yes I do understand it will go bad someday its just that some desire z/g2 and desire s have bricked because of bad emmc so I'm just wondering if those were bad batches or if there are different models of emmc chips which are good and bad.
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You might be referring to another issue. On problem is emmc wasting it valuable life in the MTBF estimated time.
The other, is a emmc going bad WAY before MTBF.
I'm not aware of G2/Z problems, as i don't have any. Care to point a link ?
I cant remember the specific thread but this is one I read
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150917
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Check this thread, we might have a case :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285310
daedric said:
Check this thread, we might have a case :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285310
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Yes that is my thread and certainly appears to be my case. I haven't found anything to confirm yet but my suspicious is that my flash memory is pooched. Does anyone know of any way of actually testing this out? I tried to use recovery e2fsck tools to run a badblocks scan but they didn't seem to run.
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Yes that is my thread and certainly appears to be my case. I haven't found anything to confirm yet but my suspicious is that my flash memory is pooched. Does anyone know of any way of actually testing this out? I tried to use recovery e2fsck tools to run a badblocks scan but they didn't seem to run.
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Maybe try this its for desire s but may work http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
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I cant seem to get rooted with this method?! Simple as hell but for some reason my phone wont perma root. I got visionary r14 select the first and third check boxes then hit temproot. Then (already put the proper root files on root of SD card)
I go to terminal emulator put in the commands then I get the not implemented error then it does it business. I turn off go into recovery as directed to check if s=off but nooooo s=on. Wtf? I'm using the unlockr guide. I already tried the xda one
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Neither did mine, so use the TRUE PERMAROOT and ULTIMATE S-OFF guide. Uses gfree
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Read the guide for noobs in my signature. It should help you.
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Awe man well I guess I have a "bad" chip maynnnee. Well thanks anyways broskees
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HECTOR-ZERONI said:
Awe man well I guess I have a "bad" chip maynnnee. Well thanks anyways broskees
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:/ well it's YOUR decision.
np, if i have helped, please hit thanks!
btw i love your username.. haha u got it from the book "Holes" right?
saranhai said:
:/ well it's YOUR decision.
np, if i have helped, please hit thanks!
btw i love your username.. haha u got it from the book "Holes" right?
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Nahhhh I'm the original Hector-Zeroni. That Guy you're thinking of he's the phony. Well anyways I have a rooted g2x so no stress an when I'm like that its the best so I have one rooted one I can deal with that an no less and also this phone technically isn't mine so I don't wanna brick it and get in that mess
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Can you still change the splash screen even after you have an EMMC failure?
If you no longer have write privileges to /system then there is no way to change it.
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nope... like eqjunkie said, once the chip is dead, you don't have write access to the phone anymore... so you can't change anything. sorry...
Aww man, I really want to change it but I'm afraid my chip will fail even though I do have the good chip
Is this a "just in case" for warranty purposes?
While there is always a chance of the chip failing, the "good" chips rarely do. Don't be scared.
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Aww man, I really want to change it but I'm afraid my chip will fail even though I do have the good chip
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I changed even with the bad chip, you'll be fine. Also if the chip fries sometimes the phone won't even turn on so they won't be able to see the boot screen.
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Is this a "just in case" for warranty purposes?
While there is always a chance of the chip failing, the "good" chips rarely do. Don't be scared.
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Yeah lol can never be to sure.. but I guess I'll just go ahead and do it.