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[Solved] Question: How to root MyTouch Slide using OSX?

wdfowty said:
I'm having a few issues using my bootcamp partition for this (in Parallels), following eugene and king_fyo's tutorials, and was wondering what it would take to root my MyTouch3gS using osx?
I am semi-familiar with ADB, and I have made the loop.sh script, but i'm stuck at that point.
Here are my main questions:
-How to you get the loop to stop? I have to quit Terminal app to stop it.
-Any other things to know? Tips? Success stories? Tutorials maybe (or even a quick and dirty how-to?)
Thank you for your time, and for not flaming the newb
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EDIT: SOLVED!
So, I'm waiting for my Nexus one to come in the mail, and I think to myself, "Why not give rooting the slide another go?"
Worked second try. How's that for random....
So, here's how I made it work...Dunno if it was 'luck of the draw', but here ya go anyways...Hope it helps someone!
1. Instead of turning off the phone normally, I rebooted straight into recovery, with the phone being on first.
Code:
./adb reboot recovery
2. While rebooting, MANUALLY search for devices as soon as you can type it in, repeating rapidly (This made the difference for me).
Code:
./adb devices
3. You should catch the device in offline mode right before the recovery screen. Unplug device for 5 seconds or so, then plug it back in.
Code:
./adb devices
List of devices attached
HT05MPS02279 recovery
4. You should see your device in recovery, then you're good to go. If not try again.

How to you get the loop to stop? I have to quit Terminal app to stop it.
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No, simply hit <control> c from inside the Terminal app to break out of the shell script.
Any other things to know?
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Not really, it may take you several tries to get this as it did for people using M$ Winblows. I tried it about 20 - 30 times on XP and never was successful. After switching to my mac, I got root on the 5th try!
My suggestion is to follow Eugene's guide, it worked great for me! If you have problems, post them here and myself or others will try to help you.
Good luck!

wdfowty said:
I'm having a few issues using my bootcamp partition for this (in Parallels), following eugene and king_fyo's tutorials, and was wondering what it would take to root my MyTouch3gS using osx?
I am semi-familiar with ADB, and I have made the loop.sh script, but i'm stuck at that point.
Here are my main questions:
-How to you get the loop to stop? I have to quit Terminal app to stop it.
-Any other things to know? Tips? Success stories? Tutorials maybe (or even a quick and dirty how-to?)
Thank you for your time, and for not flaming the newb
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So I set up my camera to record myself rooting my phone using OSX and a couple friends walked into the room. I got distracted explaining what it was I was doing and didn't make the how to. If I have free time tomorrow afternoon I can make a how to vid. My girlfriend just got her slide yesterday and I believe she wants me to root it.

it's exactly the same doing it in Mac OSX as doing it in Windows except you don't have to worry about drivers. Make sure you get android SDK for Mac OSX and that you put it somewhere that is in your PATH variable.
But if you feel more comfortable doing it from Bootcamp Windows partition -- by all means do that.

Don't boot camp it... lol
I'll be posting a Mac OSX version of Eugene's Root Method shortly.

sk8rbebop, Fordude, stangri, Thanks for the quick replies! Wasn't expecting anything so soon!
I think I have tried to press CMD+C to stop the script, must have been my problem. lol.
@stangri What do you mean by PATH variable? I have the Android SDK installed in my home folder...
@sk8rbebop That's pretty funny . I'm going to have a go at it right now, I'll edit this post with my results.
edit: I don't know if this is right, but I stop the script when I see the device in offline mode. But when I unplug device, re-plug and run ./adb devices nothing shows up. The same happens if I don't unplug.
edit2: Still nothing. adb never recognizes device after I stop the loop.

I threw up a guide. Hope it helps.
Don't shut off the loop until something displays under the devices.

Re: Question: How to root MyTouch Slide using OSX?
When u connect the slide to your mac and type "adb devices", do you see your phone listed? Crucial first step before moving on.
To make things a little easier for me, I put the sdk tools folder in my path so I could issue adb commands in any directory I want to.
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@sk8rbebop Read the guide and i'm still stuck at the loop. I'm having the same issues as earlier, the device will show for a little bit but right before the recovery screen shows, it dissapears. I was stopping the script once I saw the device, before it "dissapeared". Stopping the script after it dissapears does the same...
BTW, I've noticed that I need to start the adb daemon before I run the loop in order for it to even see the device in the loop. Odd.
@Fordude Yes, if I run ./adb devices when the phone is on I get my serial number and it says "device".
edit: I found that I am running an out of date SDK revision, so I am updating to the newest (revision 6), lets see if that makes any difference...
edit 2: No dice. Lame. Oh well I guess...Try try again. My mac seems to be determined not to let this happen
update: So, I'm getting a nexus. Thanks all for your help, happy hacking!

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semi-detailed instructions for AlphaRev X Linux method??

having never used Linux before and wanting to root with AlphaRev, would anybody that has been successful with root mind summarizing all the steps that are being desecribed in the other post?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160511
kind of getting lost with all the various steps being talked about in there.
really appreciate it.
thanks

-Go to ubuntu.com
-Click the big orange "Get Ubuntu" button, then "Try it from a CD or USB stick"
-Follow their details for downloading and installing onto a USB drive
-Once you are booted into Ubuntu, set up your network, whether WiFi or wired. Should pop up on the upper right corner
-Plug in your phone (make sure USB debugging is on). A "restricted drivers" icon should pop up in the upper right. Click it and tell it to use them.
-Use Firefox and download the beta from the alphrevx link. Open the file from Firefox, and in the archive manager, tell it to extract to your desktop.
-Click the applications tab on the left, click show all next to installed programs, and select Terminal
-type "cd Desktop"
-type "sudo ./alpharevx"
-Follow their instructions
Hopefully that helps a bit.

Amazing
You rock! Thank you for simple instructions for us non-Linux Users, worked perfectly!

cambunch said:
-Go to ubuntu.com
-Click the big orange "Get Ubuntu" button, then "Try it from a CD or USB stick"
-Follow their details for downloading and installing onto a USB drive
-Once you are booted into Ubuntu, set up your network, whether WiFi or wired. Should pop up on the upper right corner
-Plug in your phone (make sure USB debugging is on). A "restricted drivers" icon should pop up in the upper right. Click it and tell it to use them.
-Use Firefox and download the beta from the alphrevx link. Open the file from Firefox, and in the archive manager, tell it to extract to your desktop.
-Click the applications tab on the left, click show all next to installed programs, and select Terminal
-type "cd Desktop"
-type "sudo ./alpharevx"
-Follow their instructions
Hopefully that helps a bit.
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Will this work with no internet on the pc? Because I have all the files and I'm about to make a live disk and just run off that and if so how would I install cwm after
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bradsinram said:
Will this work with no internet on the pc? Because I have all the files and I'm about to make a live disk and just run off that and if so how would I install cwm after
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You would need to download it and install under Windows using this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134520
Aside from that, just copy the alphrevx binary to the Desktop via flash drive, and it should work just fine

-Plug in your phone (make sure USB debugging is on). A "restricted drivers" icon should pop up in the upper right. Click it and tell it to use them.
not getting this popup...what should made USB sync option be? didnt think step would mess me up lol

guess i should event bother trying..looks like im on baseband 0.99
now what

bettadaze said:
guess i should event bother trying..looks like im on baseband 0.99
now what
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Someone in the alpharevx irc channel (I believe it was attn1) said a downgrade to 0.97 would be coming but that's really all the details they gave.

thanks for the update. perhaps will get lucky and they will include it with the rereleased windows version.

bettadaze said:
having never used Linux before and wanting to root with AlphaRev, would anybody that has been successful with root mind summarizing all the steps that are being desecribed in the other post?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160511
kind of getting lost with all the various steps being talked about in there.
really appreciate it.
thanks
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This is a general section post. *shakes fist at you*

I've burned my ubuntu live disk in 64bit, but for some reason, when i boot it up on my HP dv2945se, the screen is distorted by these horizontal lines and no adjustments to Monitor Settings would get rid of them. I'm also having trouble getting my computers built in wireless router to be seen by Ubuntu... save me! i'm a helpless Linux n00b!!!

A good idea is to use virtual box. Free and you won't worry about rebooting or video distortion
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Well, thanks guys. I succeeded only after typing it in like 3 times (not sure how the hell I was doing it wrong, but suddenly - it worked.)
S-OFF w/ recovery in 30 seconds
Now just to teach myself about the rest of android tweaking now that root has opened her legs for us...

Nachobass25 said:
I've burned my ubuntu live disk in 64bit, but for some reason, when i boot it up on my HP dv2945se, the screen is distorted by these horizontal lines and no adjustments to Monitor Settings would get rid of them. I'm also having trouble getting my computers built in wireless router to be seen by Ubuntu... save me! i'm a helpless Linux n00b!!!
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There are different versions of ubuntu (x86, etc). Whatever one you downloaded is the wrong one. The other should work.
Carelessly swyped on my phone so there may be some weird typos

collinray said:
A good idea is to use virtual box. Free and you won't worry about rebooting or video distortion
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The free version if virtual box doesn't have the usb support needed. I didn't try it but people who used wubi claimed errors. The live cd worked fine for me.
Carelessly swyped on my phone so there may be some weird typos

I rooted my incredible using WUBI with no problems whatsoever.

I'm hurting for some one on one help
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Sdk manager making me mad lol

So I got the core Sdk installed but I can't get the Sdk manager to run. Window pops up saying can't access /tools/android.bat: permission is denied
Bc of this I can't get platform tools and adb downloaded. Can anyone throw me a bone lol?
What do I need to do to 'enable permissions' for that
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Try to right click and run as administrator...
It sounds like you may have placed your SDK folder in a restricted area. Are you the administrator?
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I even unlocked the administrator account in command prompt and logged in with that to see if it would work. no love. I'm trying to update it from where I dl'd it in my documents on win7pro
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Thx for replying though lol
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I am running Linux, though I have used SDK on a Windows machine and have not seen this issue. I would say delete the whole thing and start over. Who knows where an issue could have occured...
Start HERE
Use the .exe file, it recommended. Make sure to install it to C:/ that way it is easier to access. With that .exe it will then suggest that you launch and run the updates and it will launch it for you so you should be able to get in.
Not sure how you were installing it before but this is right from the source.

i found it. stupid-a** firewall wasn't notifying me it was blocking stuff -_- thanks for the help though
couldn't figure out why it wouldn't install, it installed fine on xp months ago before i went win7pro lol
comodo firewall apparently decided to hide that it was blocking everything that had to do with the sdk

could a mod close this thread please?

Mic only not working during phone calls

I have searched through many microphone issue threads and none seem to help. I have a T-mobile htc g2 which has been unlocked and using my AT&T SIM Card. The phone works perfectly, except no one can hear me during phone calls. The voice search app works perfectly -text,navigation, etc. (so it should not be a hardware problem) which leads to a software problem. I have factory reset the phone several times, but it doesn't fix the problem. I have tried to flash ROM the phone, but I cannot get the phone to ROOT. I have tried Visonary (which failed since I have Android 2.3.4) and the xda wiki page, but my phone is not recognized by HTC Sync or adb.
Either way, I need help figuring out if I can ever fix the microphone issue this phone has. If there is another way to install a ROM, please let me know. I have been trying for days to get my phone rooted.
For more information:
I have tried both versions 3.2.20 and 3.0.5551 of HTC Sync (and neither worked). I've restarted my computer and the phone, turned off antivirus, followed HTC instructions; but nothing worked.
When trying adb, in the command prompt after typing "adb devices" I received this message: " 'adb' is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program or batch file " To my knowledge I followed all the previous steps correctly, although I have windows 7 and not vista (but I still got to the same properties).
Anyway, please help me with any information.
UPDATE:
I finally rooted and downgraded the phone to 2.2 Android and then flashed a sense 2.0 ROM (although it was force closing applications), but it did not fix the microphone issue. People still cannot hear me during phone calls. So it seems that this must be a hardware problem, but if the mic works for some applications, is it the microphone that is broken? Or could it be something else?
Right now my phone is still in 2.2 Android since I may be flashing the Sense 3.0 ROM soon. But does anyone know what the problem could be and how to fix it?

if adb is not recognized then you are not pointed to it. you need to either
change directories in cmd and point it to the folder adb is in
or
change the path in system variables so when you type "adb" into cmd it will always find the path no matter where you are directing it
or if these steps are above your head,
open the folder adb.exe is located, hold shift and right click in the folder - then choose open command here
once in cmd, type
adb devices
if your phone is plugged in, debugging turned on, proper drivers installed you will see a serial number, that's good - continue
if you see waiting for device, then adb.exe is now working but your phone isn't being detected
if you get the same error as before you need to one of the other ways I mentioned
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demkantor said:
if adb is not recognized then you are not pointed to it. you need to either
change directories in cmd and point it to the folder adb is in
or
change the path in system variables so when you type "adb" into cmd it will always find the path no matter where you are directing it
or if these steps are above your head,
open the folder adb.exe is located, hold shift and right click in the folder - then choose open command here
once in cmd, type
adb devices
if your phone is plugged in, debugging turned on, proper drivers installed you will see a serial number, that's good - continue
if you see waiting for device, then adb.exe is now working but your phone isn't being detected
if you get the same error as before you need to one of the other ways I mentioned
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That worked perfectly and I guess my phone is seen by adb. However, I realized the link of the xda wiki for the clockwork recovery is not working. I am trying to find another download link, but does anyone know where else you can download the clockwork recovery for htc g2?

go to the cyanogen wiki (just google it)
but I would recommend 4ext recovery, (you can google this too) it far nicer than clockwork for the vision
on a side note, find strawmetal's guide to rooting, its in pdf format and also has all the downloads needed
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demkantor said:
go to the cyanogen wiki (just google it)
but I would recommend 4ext recovery, (you can google this too) it far nicer than clockwork for the vision
on a side note, find strawmetal's guide to rooting, its in pdf format and also has all the downloads needed
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Thank you. I will try to strawmetal's guide first since the xda isn't working for me right now.

That Strawmetal's guide worked wonderfully! I finally rooted and downgraded the phone to 2.2 Android and then flashed a sense 2.0 ROM (although it was force closing applications), but it did not fix the microphone issue. People still cannot hear me during phone calls. So it seems that this must be a hardware problem, but if the mic works for some applications, is it the microphone that is broken? Or could it be something else?

the mic is part of the main flex cable, it is possible it cuts in and out because the flex is going bad and the mic is fine.
either way sounds like the only fix will be to replace your flex about 35~40 on ebay and 30~60min depending on how novice/pro you are
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demkantor said:
the mic is part of the main flex cable, it is possible it cuts in and out because the flex is going bad and the mic is fine.
either way sounds like the only fix will be to replace your flex about 35~40 on ebay and 30~60min depending on how novice/pro you are
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Thank you for your advice. I flashed the Virtuous Unity ROM and it fixed the microphone, somehow. However, if it shuts off (I pray it wont) I will try to see if replacing that will make a difference.

Mic Not Working in Calls Only
nds623 said:
Thank you for your advice. I flashed the Virtuous Unity ROM and it fixed the microphone, somehow. However, if it shuts off (I pray it wont) I will try to see if replacing that will make a difference.
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I have qmobile noir a10 which is same as micromax a110.. From few days i have got this mic problem in voice calls. I can hear voice of ppl calling me but they cant hear me.. while microphone is working quite fine in sound recorder application.. i flashed custom ROMS but no success yet.. Plz help me!!

[Q] Logcat any way preferred over another?

Well I have a question to our devs. Is there any one way to logcat that is preferred over another? I never have done logcat to determine issues for our device and I would like to start. I know there are a couple apps on the play store that are useful like aLogcat or Catlog. I know its best to use adb and even run the command in terminal emulator.
There is a great guide here that I've been referring to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
And DONT forget to thank paxChristos for the guide.
In short I want to logcat to help out our devs as much as possible so is there any requirements that you like to see for a logcat? Should I/we try and duplicate the issue a certain amount of times while doing the logcat? Any feedback would be useful.
Thanks to everyone who makes these devices we have just that much better. And keep up the great work.:thumbup::thumbup:

Adb is always the best and easiest way. Always be sure to use -v long when logcatting as it's makes our lives 10 times more easier. Personal favorite log cat guide is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1378491
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sinfulgray said:
Well I have a question to our devs. Is there any one way to logcat that is preferred over another? I never have done logcat to determine issues for our device and I would like to start. I know there are a couple apps on the play store that are useful like aLogcat or Catlog. I know its best to use adb and even run the command in terminal emulator.
There is a great guide here that I've been referring to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726238
And DONT forget to thank paxChristos for the guide.
In short I want to logcat to help out our devs as much as possible so is there any requirements that you like to see for a logcat? Should I/we try and duplicate the issue a certain amount of times while doing the logcat? Any feedback would be useful.
Thanks to everyone who makes these devices we have just that much better. And keep up the great work.:thumbup::thumbup:
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I think this will work for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37825398
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ADB is a great way to do it. The two guides stated above should help teach you how to logat.
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For some reason i can not get my device to connect to adb, Ive never had this problem before and my my old G2x connects just fine. Ive uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled with no luck. Also went as far back as uninstalling the drivers and odin back to stock to try and have them reinstalledwith no luck. Any ideas?

sinfulgray said:
For some reason i can not get my device to connect to adb, Ive never had this problem before and my my old G2x connects just fine. Ive uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled with no luck. Also went as far back as uninstalling the drivers and odin back to stock to try and have them reinstalledwith no luck. Any ideas?
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Try installing the regular ADB drivers then. I linked a Google search for "Samsung adb drivers".

Damn still can not connect, I've tried to uninstall Google USB driver and Samsung USB drivers and they uninstall and install just fine witj a reboot in between of course but phone is still not connected. I'm my device manager on the PC under other devices it shows 4 android devices all with yellow caution signs.
Now my G2x won't show either lol Going to try and completely remove ADB and reinstall and see what happens.
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sinfulgray said:
Damn still can not connect, I've tried to uninstall Google USB driver and Samsung USB drivers and they uninstall and install just fine witj a reboot in between of course but phone is still not connected. I'm my device manager on the PC under other devices it shows 4 android devices all with yellow caution signs.
Now my G2x won't show either lol Going to try and completely remove ADB and reinstall and see what happens.
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If using Windows you must run the command prompt [cmd] as an admin be sure to do the following in Win 7:
click start type cmd in the white box and wait as it searches. When it lists cmd in that list now right click and choose run as admin.
Also you need to enable developer options [go to settings about device and tap the build ID like 7 times [as you tap it, it should count down after the first couple taps once you hit it enough it will say you have enabled developer options if you don't see them in settings already]
Be sure to hit the on off switch in upper right of window when you first tap developer options if the options are greyed out and don't let you change anything
Now in developer options be sure to go to the option where it says enable root access and be sure it says apps AND ADB if it says apps only tap that and change it to Apps and ADB.
Now try again
BTW I love CatLog it has a home screen widget that can start / stop recording for you] so if you know how to produce the problem go to home screen tap the widget go through the steps until the error occurs go back to home screen tap widget again and it stops then look in /sdcard/catlog/ and it will have text files named with the date and time and that will be the entire log cat that happened between the time you started and stopped the recording of your actions.