I tried searching for a solution to this but am having a hard time finding anything.
Basically, I am trying to root my friend's Incredible for him with unrevoked and I'm having some trouble.
First I got a message that there was a problem with the CID backup. I talked to some people from the unrevoked team and they gave me a fix but they then said that he had a weird unusual file they would have to look into.
So then I tried again for the hell of it and instead of that error message I got one saying that root failed perhaps my firmware version isn't supported.
Does anyone know if a firmware version isn't supported and if there is a manual method using adb?
Thanks for any help
I am also trying to root a friends right now. I have the hboot drivers installed, but it just says "Pushing Recover" forever and never does anything. Sucks!! I have rooted quite a few Evo's without a hitch........this is a realy bummer
I've rooted my incredible without any issues in the past, that seems kind of strange.. hopefully unrevoked team can get that figured out for you.
Yeah, I've rooted a bunch of Evos and I don't think any of them went through with out a flaw and I had to use adb for all but one.
Is it a SLCD incredible? I had an unusually hard time with my lady's inc. Meanwhile mine was rooted first time. Wonder if changes between the 2 shipments happened? I just kept trying and eventually it went. Hardest part was to get her computer to accept the ADB Drivers...
I'm not sure, would that be in the about phone setting or is it associated with a certain hard ware version? How many times did you try it cause I think we did at least five haha.
Also were you getting similar error messages?
You can tell by the screen itself. If there's a backlight its an SLCD. But sadly I have no idea if it really makes a difference. It took me 3 tries and it randomly worked. I changed nothing in my method.
You don't remember the error messages you got were do you?
I personally don't know how you could tell which one you had. Maybe google search your phone's model number or hardware version to see there are any answers out there.
I used a Mac to root my Inc and it went smoothly after two tries haha. The Mac version does not require you to install drivers, so if you want to try that method have at it.
if you go into settings/about phone/hardware, and if under hardware version it says 0002 its "amoled" and if its says 0003 its "slcd".
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Yesterday my roommate decided that he wanted to join the party and root his Evo after seeing the pure unfiltered awesomeness of mine, but he ran into a problem. While trying to flash a custom recovery he kept getting the an error message about a "bad block 000x0000010000" or something similar. So, unless I'm way off, I told him he must have bad handset hardware.
Well, he decided to take the phone back to the Sprint store and see if he could talk them into swapping one out due to the defect. They said no, because after running whatever tests it is that they do that there wasn't a reproducible problem. The sales person did say though, that if his phone were to "unexpectedly crash" then he would easily just replace it.
So... my question at this point, is there a way to get around this "bad block" error, or is there a way to brick the phone without it being obvious that anything voiding the warranty was done? I searched the forums about this error, but everything if found said they eventually got it to work by trying different recoveries, or they swapped out the phone. We have a tried a few different recoveries, but none are working and we have tried more times than I can count.
Its fraud. Nobody on this forum is likely to help you since its BS claims like that which caused the deductible to raide to $100.
I understand how one could see it that way, but the way my roommate sees it is that he was sold a bad device. I don't know, I'm not here to argue semantics nor ethics, I'm just wondering if anyone has some advice for the guy. We would prefer to just keep the phone if we can manage to get the device working the way we would like.
Intensentropy said:
Yesterday my roommate decided that he wanted to join the party and root his Evo after seeing the pure unfiltered awesomeness of mine, but he ran into a problem. While trying to flash a custom recovery he kept getting the an error message about a "bad block 000x0000010000" or something similar. So, unless I'm way off, I told him he must have bad handset hardware.
Well, he decided to take the phone back to the Sprint store and see if he could talk them into swapping one out due to the defect. They said no, because after running whatever tests it is that they do that there wasn't a reproducible problem. The sales person did say though, that if his phone were to "unexpectedly crash" then he would easily just replace it.
So... my question at this point, is there a way to get around this "bad block" error, or is there a way to brick the phone without it being obvious that anything voiding the warranty was done? I searched the forums about this error, but everything if found said they eventually got it to work by trying different recoveries, or they swapped out the phone. We have a tried a few different recoveries, but none are working and we have tried more times than I can count.
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Have you tried flashing eng build and flashing recovery from bootloader?
we flashed the engineering build through the bootloader but not the recovery. The method we used to flash recovery was though adb. we'll take a look and see if we have any better luck. my roommate said that he read something about using fastboot, but I'm not sure about that. We'll give it a try.
Just be careful not to run out of power "accidentally" while flashing a new radio... that could have devastating effects on phone usage... "Hint... Hint..."
though i highly doubt that your friends problem lies with the phone itself... should try to redo all the steps... and if you can repeat the error post more details on here...
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Just be careful not to run out of power "accidentally" while flashing a new radio... that could have devastating effects on phone usage... "Hint... Hint..."
though i highly doubt that your friends problem lies with the phone itself... should try to redo all the steps... and if you can repeat the error post more details on here...
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lol, we are running though the whole process again right now. Thanks for the suggestion, though we are trying to avoid such a devastating event.
Well... Thanks for all your suggestions! We got everything to finally work though. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier but we tried the simple root method and let the automated process handle all the labor. We got the exact same error with this method, but the program recognized the issue and moved the recovery to a section with no bad blocks. Doing it manually didn't allow for us to chose a different section to write to. Donation can be expected from my roommate! Thanks for the great application!
So I had to take my EVO in to get replaced today for screen issues. Got the new one home, same 004, 3.30 versions. Fire up UnrEVOked3 and away I go!
First time I got Internal error: Couldn't find misc.
So, I looked around and didn't really find any useful answers, so I formatted my SD card, popped into the OS to make a quick phone call and then ran UnrEVOked again. This time it says "This was a triumph." However S-ON is still listed in the boot loader.
So I make ABSOLUTELY certain that my driver is still there in the 3 minutes I didn't check it. Instead of saying Android Bootloader Interface or whatever it said a few minutes ago, it now says "Android Composite ADB Interface". I have NO clue what this is, and there's only 3 threads or so even mentioning it. I tried uninstallling and reinstalling the driver, but I get the same thing..
Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? I really want to root this thing, lol.
Im looking to root my phone as well and I read alot before I take on this kind of thing... I have read in several places, your version can't be rooted "yet"... Google your software version along with your hboot... See if any one can do it yet
Sent from the MATRIX... while plugged into my EVO... using the XDA app... from a galaxy far-far away.......
That's the thing. My previous phone was the same hardware and software version. It should work.
The only thing that has changed is the driver in the device manager.
Unrevoked can not be used on your phone to root it you have to use a defferent method. check your hboot, is it 2.02??? If it is go in the developers section and look for the rooting with hboot 2.02 Like a Boss post and follow the directions.
I tried to search through forums and not finding anything helpfull.
I have 2.2 on my incredible. At first when I tried to root with unrevoked it would do the first reboot and then say waiting for reboot. Then it would breifly say something like waiting to settle then give me a error about lost communication and try again.
I tried a couple of times and same issue. Then after coming back to try about 2 hours later, I can't run the program any more. I get a unexpected error. Any ideas on how to fix both issues?
I followed the guide and uninstalled those programs that it listed. And installed the drivers that it needed.
do you have the latest version of unrevoked?
I do or at least I think I do. I went to their page and got it directly from them.
I got the program running again, guess my comp needed to be turned off for awhile. But I still get comm lost unexpectedly with phone error.
I can hear the usb sound being played for something being connected and disconnected. Any ideas on how to stop that?
If you ever had HTC sync installed on your pc there are two apps that need to be uninstalled. Both are called HTC 'something'. Go to Add/Remove programs and make sure both are gone.
Also, did you read the unrevoked faq? There are other programs that can cause problems if installed on your pc.
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked3
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can U please help me out? I'm trying to root and upgrade to Android 2.2 on my htc mytouch 3g slide but when my phone is on recovery mode, cmd adb doesnt show my phone is in recovery, all its shows is that my device is in offline mode....I can't move to the next step without this.....Please help me, I need specific instructions.
Thanks
Flo_baby:
I would go to the MT3G forums, and start there. U likely wont get alot of help in the Droid incredible forums. Since its two different phones and one is cdma the other is gsm they are also two different beast entirely
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Ok before I begin I want to say I am not a total noob at this stuff, although I am not a master. I have rooted and installed roms, radios and Kernels on three different phones and I've also used adb to do some random things. I have only used them on windows pc's but never on an apple pc.
I got the HTC G2 to play around with, since I am not brave enough to do it on my SGS 4G. The first thing I did was install VISIONary+. I was able to acquire temp root but after tinkering with it I broke my R/W access(just an assumption). I decided to give up and go the good old ADB way.
I searched the forums and found solutions but they are only for intel based macs. I am running a PPC mac. I scoured the interwebz and have lucked out and found a guy who modified the files to works on PPC architecture's. He also stated that this was done on a Leopard laptop, Mine is tiger(yes i am to cheap and to fork out 150 bucks for a new OS) OS X 10.4.11.I am starting to feel my problem is the Tiger OS. When I connect my phone I enable debugging and connected it to my laptop. I open my terminal and type:
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""/Users/brianjaqua/desktop/android_ppc/adb""
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when I do that It gives me a bus error. I have also tried just double clicking the file to start adb that way and it gives me:
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""Last login: Tue Jul 26 13:10:59 on console
/Users/brianjaqua/Desktop/android_ppc/adb; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
brian-jaquas-ibook-g4:~ brianjaqua$ /Users/brianjaqua/Desktop/android_ppc/adb; exit
Bus error
logout
[Process completed]""
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I am stumped I have tried everything I can think of. When I did give up i tried installing the original rom that came with it to try and fix the R/W problem that VISIONary gave me. I tried a modified version that came with root already something that I was able to supposedly just do without rooting. The phone didn't even pick it up from the boot loader as being on my sd card, seemed to me like it just ignored the fact that it even existed. so i ditched it and went with a totally fresh pc10img.zip one that hadn't been tinkered with, yup same damn issue just ignored it's existence. Then I got Super excited when I found a leaked release of gingerbread on the interwebz. Every single darn person said boot loader acknowledged its existence and started to install it(even on unrooted phones) without an issue. But what did i get? a big **** slap to the face! once again my phone ignored its existence!!! WTF?!?!? So now I am stuck in the mudd while everyone else is enjoying the party. And yes Its on the root of my sd card.Any clue as to why it seems my phone doesnt want to install a pc10img.zip file? or why i cant use VISIONary+ or even why ADB is telling "**** you"? Any help would be greatly appreciated, even maybe just a nudge in the right direction or a "Hey Bro your not a total ****ing retard" would be greatly helpful. Thank you for reading my ramblings and such.
Make sure the pc10img.zip is all caps. If the mods were created on leopard I'm pretty sure you are SOL if running tiger. Don't use visionary for the exact reasons you mentioned above. Lion is only like 50 bucks.
Tiger is super outdated ya know
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I did my best and researched as much as I possibly could before having to ask because I am aware that this question is asked repeatedly. I just cant seem to figure out what the issue is.
Ive been trying to root my HTC One Max for the last week + with no success whatsoever. When restarting to bootloader menu (Vol Down and Start). It says my OS is 2.16.xxx. I did a factory reset just to make sure everything was like it was when I got it. Being a verizon HTC I assumed there would be problems but Ive exhausted everything my knowledge is capable of, which is limited. I unistalled drivers, reinstalled, trying different ones. Windows 8.1 is annoying with it but I got the drivers to work. I uninstalled HTC Sync, and ran rum runner. I tried them all, doing a factory reset in between all of them to make sure that when I was trying a different one it was from scratch. I turned off the AV, turned it back on. Tried it every which way.
Are these newer OS's not compatible with rumrunner?
Does anyone have any suggestions of what I can do?
It would be appreciated immensely. Its such a great phone, I really wanna root and learn more about it. Im also taking java in school at the moment so if I have to do something going in that direction I will try..
Please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
The rumrunner process has gotten as far as "chilling....." Then it says there was an unexpected action, and to install another ROM. Its driving me mad. The last rumrunner i tried was rumrunner_t6wl_1.11.605.4
You are in the wrong forum. This forum is for the HTC One (m7), not the One Max. Look in to weaksause to get temp root and firewater to get s-off. Not positive, but i believe they should work on the max.