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Not working for me, is just stuck on the yellow triangle;(
Does anyone have any insight on this?
JD
JupiterDroid said:
Not working for me, is just stuck on the yellow triangle;(
Does anyone have any insight on this?
JD
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what exactly are you doing?
Start every step from opening the app
Lennyuk said:
what exactly are you doing?
Start every step from opening the app
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I open the app,
i click root my phone,
it goes rooting phone please wait, and gets stuck;( i waited for 30 minutes;(
JD
Its working now phew;P
I had to uncheck the usb debugging box and then recheck it,
i thought it was weird my phone came with usb debugging enabled, must have been an error
JD
GOOD NEWS then:
now we have CONFIRMED ROOT FOR THE DESIRE Z
[IRONIC MODE]
Unexpecteldy, the G2 root also works for the Desire Z !!
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gtrab said:
GOOD NEWS then:
now we have CONFIRMED ROOT FOR THE DESIRE Z
[IRONIC MODE]
Unexpecteldy, the G2 root also works for the Desire Z !!
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Just about to try and OC, will post my findings
JD
Visionary works fine for me. Did you set the USB to developer mode or whatever it was in the instructions?!
Go to the HOME screen and press the Menu button.
Press Settings.
Press Applications.
Press Development.
Tick USB Debugging.
Now try rebooting, then try Visionary again. Worked for me
This isn't working for me
I been at this for hours and I'm seriously getting upset. I open the app, check the boxes I'm told to check. Hit temp root and the triangle comes up and then it goes away, I'm left with a black screen for hours. I have rebooted, reset, factory reset and done every step over again and I'm still left with the same results. Why is this not working for me? It's becoming a headache.
lunchboxofomni said:
I been at this for hours and I'm seriously getting upset. I open the app, check the boxes I'm told to check. Hit temp root and the triangle comes up and then it goes away, I'm left with a black screen for hours. I have rebooted, reset, factory reset and done every step over again and I'm still left with the same results. Why is this not working for me? It's becoming a headache.
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Seriously don't use visionary, it has a very high chance of bricking your device.
use the recommended guide here it's very safe and not too difficult.
-Nipqer
Yes, do not use Visionary, go with the gfree guide and get adb set up my friend. If u mess up, u can brick ur phone, as said from above. Well as long as u have eng hboot, u can easily unbrick, aslong as u know what commands to put in adb.
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lunchboxofomni said:
I been at this for hours and I'm seriously getting upset. I open the app, check the boxes I'm told to check. Hit temp root and the triangle comes up and then it goes away, I'm left with a black screen for hours. I have rebooted, reset, factory reset and done every step over again and I'm still left with the same results. Why is this not working for me? It's becoming a headache.
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DO NOT use Visionary. Its known to brick phones. Do your rooting once, do it right, with the gfree method.
Hello all. I'm sort of new to this.
Okay, here's the story.
After trying for half a month trying to perm root, I read somewhere that I should do a Nandroid backup first. I then downloaded ROM Manager and installed ClockworkRecovery via the app. Before this, I had temp. rooted my g2 using Visionary + r14 (Perm root wouldn't work no matter how many times I tried).
I pressed the backup rom button, and my screen turned black, then an icon of a phone with a red triangle with a ! point inside of it appeared. I am not sure whether that mean it is still backing up or if I screwed up my phone.
Any advice? Or do I have to reset or something?
You need to root before you can do a full system backup.
blackknightavalon said:
You need to root before you can do a full system backup.
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Correct. But don't worry; your phone isn't screwed up ATM. just pull the battery and reboot.
Draketh said:
Okay, here's the story.
After trying for half a month trying to perm root, I read somewhere that I should do a Nandroid backup first. I then downloaded ROM Manager and installed ClockworkRecovery via the app. Before this, I had temp. rooted my g2 using Visionary + r14 (Perm root wouldn't work no matter how many times I tried).
I pressed the backup rom button, and my screen turned black, then an icon of a phone with a red triangle with a ! point inside of it appeared. I am not sure whether that mean it is still backing up or if I screwed up my phone.
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I think your phone hasn't got its recovery flashed properly. After you flash Clockwork, you should really test it by selecting the "Reboot into Recovery" option from ROM Manager. Very often the first time you try that it doesn't work, and you need to flash Clockwork for a second time, and then it works.
It's not backing up, you haven't screwed your phone. Just boot it normally, go into ROM Manager, flash Clockwork again, and test booting into recovery. If that works, then you can do your backup.
There was a known issue with clockwork recovery where if you tried to install it it would give the screen you described. However, upon doing a battery pull, rebooting the phone and installing clockword recovery again usually was a success. Some people said it took them three times, but the majority of users said doing it a second time worked (second time worked for me).
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Took 2 installs for me. If you still have trouble you can manually install it. Just do a search for manual clockwork recovery.
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No gold, guys.
Eh... No good on the clockwork backup. Tried the methods: Re-install Rom Manager, clear data cache for rom manager, re-flash recovery, restart phone, went to ymca and worked out, and reboot into recovery (didn't work) then reflashed recovery again. I can't think of anything else to try. Every method results in that dumb phone with the red triangle...
Is this a common problem?
EDIT: Oh, and I got permanent root finally, and tried all of these steps again. Still no success.
UPDATE 2: Uh-oh. I went into hboot (power+volumedown), and it showed that I still have s-on. I've heard that means bad things if you are rooted with s-on still. Is this relevant?
Draketh said:
UPDATE 2: Uh-oh. I went into hboot (power+volumedown), and it showed that I still have s-on. I've heard that means bad things if you are rooted with s-on still. Is this relevant?
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I think that you'll have to get S-OFF if you want to flash custom recovery.
Its not a bad thing to have s on. You just cant flash any non official update without s off. At this point you i think you will want to follow the gfree instructions for full unlocking. After that you should be good to go. Also did you hit vol-up plus power when you got that triangle?
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K I looked at gfree
And yes, I have been pressing volume up + power when the trianglE appears. It doesn't make a difference. Isn't gfree the same thing as visionary?
UPDATE: I can't get gfree to work, because my stupid XP computer won't install drivers (tried all ways of getting 'em on, just throws me an error)
I saw a sticky'd post that boasts g2 guide for perm root and s-off individually. It says that I can put the hboot.img in /data/local/, and enter a command line into Terminal, and then command "sync", and it will s-off it. BUT it also says above that by typing the command wrong, or not having the right program could cripple or paperweight my phone. Should I try that?
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And yes, I have been pressing volume up + power when the trianglE appears. It doesn't make a difference. Isn't gfree the same thing as visionary?
UPDATE: I can't get gfree to work, because my stupid XP computer won't install drivers (tried all ways of getting 'em on, just throws me an error)
I saw a sticky'd post that boasts g2 guide for perm root and s-off individually. It says that I can put the hboot.img in /data/local/, and enter a command line into Terminal, and then command "sync", and it will s-off it. BUT it also says above that by typing the command wrong, or not having the right program could cripple or paperweight my phone. Should I try that?
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No, Visionary isn't the same thing as gfree. Visionary can get you root (both temporary and permanent). As can an alternative called rage.
What gfree gets you is radio S-OFF (so you can flash custom ROMs), plus SuperCID and SIM Unlock.
Don't do the thing with hboot, that's more risky, as it says.
As for the drivers, download and install HTC Sync from HTC's website, that includes USB drivers.
Rage method worked like a charm for me. Visionary was to buggy.
I recommend you use the Rage method and report back.
xomikronx said:
Rage method worked like a charm for me. Visionary was to buggy.
I recommend you use the Rage method and report back.
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Agreed. I read a lot of bad things about visionary that I rooted just using rage.
I did it using visionary following the tutorials @ theunlockr.com
That site has great tutorial step by step as well as vids to go along with it. Used it for s-off and permroot, as well as loading custom roms.
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steviewevie said:
No, Visionary isn't the same thing as gfree. Visionary can get you root (both temporary and permanent). As can an alternative called rage.
What gfree gets you is radio S-OFF (so you can flash custom ROMs), plus SuperCID and SIM Unlock.
Don't do the thing with hboot, that's more risky, as it says.
As for the drivers, download and install HTC Sync from HTC's website, that includes USB drivers.
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UPDATE: Installed Desire Z's HTC Sync, drivers appear to work like a charm. I'll post back later and see if s-off helps nandroid recovery.
hi guys i've got a problem trying to temp root my dhd using visionary+ everytime i select set sytem r/w after root followed by temproot now its shows the yellow triangle and says rooting device, please wait however it starts blinking and after awhile it goes back to the menu this time with set system r/w after root unselected
my dhd's build no. 1.32 so there shldn't be any problems right? :/
markyy said:
hi guys i've got a problem trying to temp root my dhd using visionary+ everytime i select set sytem r/w after root followed by temproot now its shows the yellow triangle and says rooting device, please wait however it starts blinking and after awhile it goes back to the menu this time with set system r/w after root unselected
my dhd's build no. 1.32 so there shldn't be any problems right? :/
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Try without selecting the set system r/w after root and see if it will temproot then?
markyy said:
hi guys i've got a problem trying to temp root my dhd using visionary+ everytime i select set sytem r/w after root followed by temproot now its shows the yellow triangle and says rooting device, please wait however it starts blinking and after awhile it goes back to the menu this time with set system r/w after root unselected
my dhd's build no. 1.32 so there shldn't be any problems right? :/
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you dont need to tick any boxes, i didnt, just hit the temp root button, it can take 1-2 minutes
Mines' been going on for a good 10 min so far - Surely it doesn't take this long?
I didn't tick anything either, but I did have to temp root and permroot twice over before it finally worked. Same story when I rooted my friends DHD.
Alright, here's the deal. I tried to root my Inc. and accidently did unrevoked Forever. Now it says I have s-off, but no root access. Super User app is there, but none of my root apps work. I tried re-rooting with unrevoked, and it says Error: is your firmware too new? I can't figure out how to get z4root on my phone to see if it would fix it.
I have no idea what to do. I really need to get root access, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.
Run the unrevoked forever son/soff tool again to get son. Go to dougpiston.com and get the latest PB31IMG.zip. Drop it on your sdcard. shut down. Boot while holding down on the volume rocker(V-) and power. Your phone will boot to hboot. Once there your phone will ask to update. Press up on the volume rocker(V+) to update. Once it updates it will ask to reboot. Press up on the volume rocker(V+)to reboot. Done.
Now reroot again if you choose this time paying attention to what your doing.
Hello everyone. First of all, sorry if this post is not in the right forum.
My problem is that I rooted my HTC Desire a few months ago using unrevoked3, or at least I think so. I know I tried to do that, but right now I don't remember if I succeeded or I gave up.
The question is, how can I know if my phone is rooted? I have the "superuser permission" icon in my menu but if I run Terminal Emulator and type "su" I get "permission denied".
I know that sounds kind of stupid. I was convinced my phone was rooted but since I am getting the "permission denied" message something must not be working...
Any help?
Thank you in advance.
Boot to recovery. If you have clockworkmod you are rooted
Nothing happens
If I do that, a mobile phone image appears with a "warning" sign besides (an exclamation mark inside a red triangle) and nothing happens. What does that mean?
Thanks.
Easy way to know if you are rooted, is to download an app that requires root and if it works then u are rooted. If not try again
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Dj Telo said:
If I do that, a mobile phone image appears with a "warning" sign besides (an exclamation mark inside a red triangle) and nothing happens. What does that mean?
Thanks.
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It seems that you could've lost the root access.
To make sure, download any apps with root prerequisite from the market and see if they work (as suggested).
Do Unrevoked again if you are sure that you have lost the root access.
Note:
I will loose the root access if you flash any official RUU from HTC that si why you should better turn the automatic firmware update off.
Dj Telo said:
If I do that, a mobile phone image appears with a "warning" sign besides (an exclamation mark inside a red triangle) and nothing happens. What does that mean?
Thanks.
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Yep, you're unrooted
Dj Telo said:
Hello everyone. First of all, sorry if this post is not in the right forum.
My problem is that I rooted my HTC Desire a few months ago using unrevoked3, or at least I think so. I know I tried to do that, but right now I don't remember if I succeeded or I gave up.
The question is, how can I know if my phone is rooted? I have the "superuser permission" icon in my menu but if I run Terminal Emulator and type "su" I get "permission denied".
I know that sounds kind of stupid. I was convinced my phone was rooted but since I am getting the "permission denied" message something must not be working...
Any help?
Thank you in advance.
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What hardwarerevision does your desire have? You find this out, when you boot into bootloader and read the number behind the word "pvt" (first line). If there stands a 4, you have to run unrevoked with custom recovery (amonra 2.0.1) again. Reason: unrevoked flashes clockworkmod recovery. But this recovery does not work with pvt4- desires. You have to download amonra-recovery:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...-0-0-14-11-2010-recovery-ra-desire-v2.0.1.zip (link extracted from serious german forum)
Original xda Thread:
[Recovery] [14-Nov-2010] RA-desire-v2.0.0 [GSM] - xda-developers
After downloading and extracting the zip, integrate this recovery into unrevoked (File>custom recovery>choose downloaded amonra recovery) and run unrevoked again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
No warranty for any damage.
MatDrOiD said:
What hardwarerevision does your desire have? You find this out, when you boot into bootloader and read the number behind the word "pvt" (first line). If there stands a 4, you have to run unrevoked with custom recovery (amonra 2.0.1) again. Reason: unrevoked flashes clockworkmod recovery. But this recovery does not work with pvt4- desires. You have to download amonra-recovery:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...-0-0-14-11-2010-recovery-ra-desire-v2.0.1.zip (link extracted from serious german forum)
Original xda Thread:
[Recovery] [14-Nov-2010] RA-desire-v2.0.0 [GSM] - xda-developers
After downloading and extracting the zip, integrate this recovery into unrevoked (File>custom recovery>choose downloaded amonra recovery) and run unrevoked again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
No warranty for any damage.
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Hi again.
I downloaded an app from the market with root requisites and it doesn't work, so it means I lost my root access, in case I ever had it. Maybe I lost it when I updated to 2.2 via OTA.
About what MatDroid said, my hardware version is pvt3, so I shouldn't have that problem.
Anyway, I have tried to run unrevoked again and, after the computer makes my phone reboot, unrevoke gets stuck and displays "Waiting for bootloader, make sure the driver is installed". I have been asking google for a possible solution to that but I just haven't succeeded.
I am sure the driver for my phone is installed, as I have been messing around with ADB in the last week to unlock the "move to sd" option in every app and it worked. Or is it a different driver, perhaps?
Thank you for all your replies.
You can check if your driver is installed in two ways:
1.) Start adb and type
Code:
adb devices
Now the serial number of your device should appear
2.) Connect phone in usb debug mode and on "only charge" and "never ask" to your computer, start windows devices manager and check wether there is the device "android 1.0" or "android phone" or something like that.
Maybe install hboot drivers again:
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install
And conclusive, do not say thanks, use the thanks button.
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You can check if your driver is installed in two ways:
1.) Start adb and type
Code:
adb devices
Now the serial number of your device should appear
2.) Connect phone in usb debug mode and on "only charge" and "never ask" to your computer, start windows devices manager and check wether there is the device "android 1.0" or "android phone" or something like that.
Maybe install hboot drivers again:
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install
And conclusive, do not say thanks, use the thanks button.
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It appears in the "adv devices" list and in the devices manager, both. Anyway, I am going to try to install the drivers again, because I still get stuck in the "Waiting for bootloader..." screen.
Well... Aftef having tried lots of things during this evening, reinstalling drivers in different computers and running different versions of unrevoked, I finally got it to work.
But...
Here is the thing... Although unrevoked ran correctly untill the "Done" message was shown, I still have "S-ON" in the screen when I turn on the phone with the volume down key pressed. I continuously get "permission denied" messages in adb console as well.
Before unrevoked showed "Done", I had tu run it a couple of times because it got stuck in "Rebooting to recovery" or something like that. Is there a problem with that? I have been asking google about that and I found some people with the same problem, but they re-ran unrevoked as I did and their problem solved.
I feel that I am really close to getting full root access but still need a bit more help... Thank you all!
With unrevoked you do not root your phone. To get full root access you need to be s-off:
http://alpharev.nl/
Is that what I need, for instance, to run the "Ad Free" app from the market? Is that what they mean when they say "you need root access"? Thanks.
Dj Telo said:
Is that what I need, for instance, to run the "Ad Free" app from the market? Is that what they mean when they say "you need root access"? Thanks.
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No. You can run adfree without to be s-off. If there is written, one needs root excess to run this app, you can run all of these apps (the where it's not needed, anyway). Only if there is written, you need to be s-off, then you need to be s-off. But i only remember one app (a game, so not really important). Conclusion: You have the right access to run apps which need root access.
Well, it happens that I tried to run it but my phone rebooted. It made me think that maybe it was due to some kind of root access issue. I'll ask for a solution in some Ad Free thread.
The app System Tools is not working properly either when I try to perform root required actions. In case it may mean something.
Well, it is finally working now. Seems that this bad dream is over. Thank you!
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Normaly unrevocked root perfectly the phone...
Search market for 'root checker'. Easiest way to check if your rooted or not.
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Amandroid said:
Normaly unrevocked root perfectly the phone...
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Normally, you got it mate.
Swyped from my HTC Desire using XDA App