I flashed the PD15IMG.zip that comes with the tutorial on rooting the MT4G and turned on dub mode, turned off fastboot, turned on 3rd party apps, installed the VISIONary apk and ran it, no matter what I do (restart, different settings) it just sticks on "rooting device" forever and never actually does anything.
Any ideas?
Which version of visionary are you using? I remember that using either r11 or r14 would make a difference in it temp rooting successfully.
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r14, do you have a version you used successfully?
figured it out.
My F$%^ing firewall blocked a part of the file from downloading, so after I disabled and downloaded r14 again the filesize was bigger.
root works ftw...
Hang in there man...its a learning process. I was on here a couple months ago like a chicken with its head cut off. I thought I had bricked my phone & I was totally confused. But after the 1st one, I did my spare mt4g and it went much better. A few weeks later, I talked my wife into rooting hers, and I completed it in about 5 minutes. My point is, you will understand what you're doing and be able to accomplish it very quickly once you finish the 1st one....but take your time.
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figured it out.
My F$%^ing firewall blocked a part of the file from downloading, so after I disabled and downloaded r14 again the filesize was bigger.
root works ftw...
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Oh, the most important point, the exploit, was blocked. Lol.
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i used the method mentioned here
hxxp://theunlockr.com/2010/11/15/universal-android-rooting-method-visionary-method/
and it shows i still have SU permission... but everytime my phone re starts, it opens visionary and says rooting phone...
but the thing is, my phone is snail slow now... and when i go back to the main screen, it takes forever and says loading... then my normal screen shows up... its also taking forever to do simple things, such as open text msg's
any suggestions on this problem?
Lol i think you didnt properly s-off and prem-root your phone. Go to G2/disireZ android dev... locate the thread about prem rooting. There should be 3 methods. 1 gfree(safest) 2. Unforgivens method( fastest) and 3. Rage method( dont know) well yea... hope u get rooted and if anybody sees my post can you guys better explain lol thanks
Edit: lol just go to stickes and there should be a thread that talks about guilds and roms.
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shows my phone is rooted, and su lets me access it, also just tried to dl setcpu and it has access as well....
just the phone is still stupid slow.. and i want to fix that
Okay... what rom are u using?
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stock, i have not touched anything yet, tryign to get input on which is the best sense rom to dl...
basically i just want to clean up the phone, remove all bells crap from it, and speed it up a lil bit....
Quick thing i want u to do. Can u turn off your phone and hold vol down + power and tell me what it says on the upper left of the screen
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ya it says s-on still.... whats the easy way to get rid of this... and as i said i just want to speed up this phone a lil bit
Lol do you want full root? Or just speed up your phone?
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both, id like the option to upgrade to a nice optimized sense rom, and to speed up the phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833965 ( 1st method of prem rooting) (fastest)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...Subsidy_Unlock.2C_SuperCID.2C_and_Radio_S-OFF
( this is the gfree method the safest) i advice to follow this sinces its the safest
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but since it says my phone is rooted already, can this cause problems? or can i un root and re do it?
Lol alrighty. When you get prem-root/s-off you should flash virtuous Rom(sense) or cyan RC1 Rom(stock android feel).
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No lol you are not rooted. You have temp root. If your hboot says s-on then your not rooted. I advice not to mess with the prem root button on visionary.
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no no what im saying is that since my phone says its s-on still, but it says its rooted... how can i start fresh, by say unrooting my phone, or is there some way i can just hop in the middle here....
im new to all this and i dont want to screw up my phone lol
Your using visionary right? Since you have s-on after you reboot your phone it should be unrooted again. Just make sure you turn off the start at boot thing on visionary
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Dont use visionary, use the other two. There have been to many problems with Visionary.
i did turn it off, and setcpu still has access it says.... so where can i confirm on the phone is it is or is not rooted....
Does h-boot say S-Off?
Like i said before. Turn off your phone hold vol down + power. If it says s-off on the left top of the screen the your rooted. Well i used unforgivens way of prem rooting and no issues. S-off (security off)
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nope says s-on
i need help, tried to root and visionary is stuck in the black screen (not responding). is there anything i can do to fix this. usb debugging and fast boot are off, and unknown sources is on.
It should go black for a little bit. What version of visionary are you using.
14 was the only one that worked for me.
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same version, just had to reboot phone. but now i tried to root 5+ time already and still cant get permroot, stumped
edit: just attempted using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858021 still nothing
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same version, just had to reboot phone. but now i tried to root 5+ time already and still cant get permroot, stumped
edit: just attempted using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858021 still nothing
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Did you try using visionary r11? I didn't bother with r14 just use r11
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tired it still doesnt work, keep on getting s-on. should i do a factory reset and try again?
Ok, so I ran sbf to get back to stock Froyo (2.3.340) so that I could prepare to load the rooted GB (596). The sbf ran fine. My problem is when I ran z4 (1.3.0) to root. It remains stuck on "Running exploit in order to obtain root access...".
I've pulled the battery. Un-installed z4 then re-installed, but it stays stuck at the same message. By "stuck" I mean over an hour. I even re-sbf'd. No luck.
I've run this version of z4 before and had no problems - usually only took around 5 minutes.
I've searched several forums, and most say to try the battery pull and/or re-install, but these don't seem to be working for me.
Any help would be appreciated.
DX - Currently 2.3.340
Try using gingerbreak instead of z4root. It is supposed to be able to root froyo as well
Thanks Jmoney,
I looked up alternate methods of rooting and came upon SuperOneClick. Seemed to do the trick. It can be found at shortfuse.org (can't post hyperlinks yet...) for any of those that may run into the same problem.
2 months ago I had to reinstall z4 5 times and reboot phone as many to get it to work. Installed on another x in 2 minutes. Do know why the difference, but never sbf'd to get it to work.
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One of the popular links has a bad copy of Z4, I D/L'd it and it did the same thing (didn't realize that Z4 was bad).
So I redownloaded everything and it did it again, SBF'd and it did it again...so I finally went through my massive download folder, pulled a Z4 I had downloaded a couple of weeks prior and it worked fine.
Someone else also mentioned this - I think I got it from the "how to" .595 video link...but others have linked to it as well.
The z4 that I was using was from an apk that I downloaded a couple of months ago, and it worked then. Don't know why it didn't work this time.
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The z4 that I was using was from an apk that I downloaded a couple of months ago, and it worked then. Don't know why it didn't work this time.
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For alot of phones, you hafta click 'temporary root' first then when that completes, hit 'permanent root' I have used z4 1.3 a few times and that's the only way to make it work.
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I followed multiple steps for installing perm root on a friends Mytouch and for some reason we could not get the s-off feature to work. I noticed too we do have SU access via adb or terminal but I still never could get s-off. After we got root we used rom manager to install clockwork and after the fact it installed 3.0.2 i believe it completely borked the recovery. I stepped it down to 3.0.0 and still had the same issue. The main reason i wanted to get s-off was to adb flash the recovery but I got a signature fail. Any ideas or suggestions to get this working correctly? Rom Manager will not let me install 2x cwm basically stating it can not install it period. I also tried the batch file root method same issue. Thanks for your help in advance.
Please look at the "True permaroot and S-OFF" thread in Development section, and execute step-by-step.
If your friend's MT4G is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3), you'll need to use Gingerbreak instead of Visionary+ to get root access.
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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If you are following the ./gfree method step by step it will root your phone.
If you are using the root.sh script and it's not working chances are you may have a bad eMMC chipset and it will not root properly.
I know HTC said they would be pushing a update to close the exploit hole that is used to root our phones but i don't think it's been pushed yet.
Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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HTC isn't "becoming a Motorola". HTC, is completely different. We do have a locked bootloader. But it's easily unlock-able whereas Moto's aren't.
Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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I don't know what to tell you. There are several threads out there regarding how to root your phone. Both in a .gfree form and a root.sh form. One of those 2 work for 99.9% of EVERYONE.
You might try finding someone who put together a .zip that can be flashed through the android recovery(white screen with boot options, etc.). Otherwise you can get the RUU and return to stock. After that follow the directions step by step and DO NOT mix methods. This should result in an S-OFF root, if you did your homework correctly.
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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Until you have "s-off" no recovery image will stick.
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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What method are you using?
I have tried them all
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I have tried them all
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What errors are you getting?
Just can not get it to go soff i have root in the device otherwise. Recovery also just shows a computer and cell phone icon after Rom manager install clockwork mod 3x. I am just trying to adb install a older cwm.
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As someone already explained before, when the security is on, no matter the amount of flashing you're going to try - it won't get you anywhere, since it won't be written to the actual ROM, and will be gone on restart.
Unless you pick a guide, follow it exactly, and post here everything that doesn't look proper - I don't think the forum can help you much.
Here's one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
Follow it and post anything that doesn't look good. Including your bootloader version.
The root is sticking on reboots but still no soff that's what i have been saying and i followed the guides to a t its not my first picnic rooting or roming a phone this one just has me stumped
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What does your bootloader show when you boot into it?
For the root to stick after boot, you had to have S-OFF, otherwise the eMMC wouldn't have been written to.
Having no info from you, as I said, it's impossible to help. If all this thread is just a complaint - by all means, but in that case there's no point in helping you. If you want help - you need to provide enough details for people to help you. Obviously, nobody can figure out anything from "I can't get s-off".
I do a adb reboot bootloader and i get us fast boot up top it says s-on but if i reboot to the os i still have root access for instance in titanium backup or Rom manager of that helps any
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I was attempting to root the phone using visionary and I think I accidentally checked the run Visionary at startup box or something. The phone isn't rooted. It booted once and the lock screen would be able to slide down, but it would just go to the Mytouch intro screen. I have rooted dozens of phones and have never had anything this strange happen before.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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I was attempting to root the phone using visionary and I think I accidentally checked the run Visionary at startup box or something. The phone isn't rooted. It booted once and the lock screen would be able to slide down, but it would just go to the Mytouch intro screen. I have rooted dozens of phones and have never had anything this strange happen before.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Do a factory reset in recovery
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I've done it like, five times. Still does the same stuff.
I say go to t mobile store say it want boot let the t mobile clerk fiddle wit it sooner or later he offers u a replacement or my4gs
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Or just flash the pd image. If you need it let me know and ill upload it for you. Do you want 2.2, 2.2.1, or 2.3.4? Lol
I tried a PD image last night, but for all I know it could be anything. If you can upload one, that'd be cool. Either one of those would be fine with me. preferably the 2.2 version.