[Q] I'd Love Your Technical Input - Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking

Hello,
I recently purchased two myTouch 4G's for my brother and I. And while we were able to root his phone in about an hour, my phone still remains unrooted. I've tried following youtube videos, text guides and any other resource that may help me.
After I took a look into my brother's phone, I realized that his HBOOT is 0.85 and mine is 0.86. So I did an internet search for this discrepancy and it seems that the HBOOT is critical in your ability to permroot. And while there are some guides that claim to permroot 0.86, I've been running into walls with the ADB commands. For some reason when I plug my phone and run the adb devices command, my computer can't seem to find my device.
So I stumbled across the gfree method. And while I did try to use visionary for my temproot, a lot of posts said that I have to use the rage method to gain shell access. So I went through the rage method and got to the forked #### children message. Unfortunately, I couldn't a kickstart the gfree from there so I hit another dead end.
If anyone can point me in a direction to root a phone with a 0.86 hboot without adb, that would be great as I'd really love to install cyanogen.
While this may be unethical, I am willing to "donate" to any expert who is willing to help me via Skype or AIM. Otherwise, I appreciate all the help I can get!

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Evo Stock OTA 2.2 Root; Error: Device Offline

I get this error after typing "./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin" into the command prompt. I tried deleting files and starting over, I pretty much tried everything and still get this error. Even if I try starting all over I get this error right from the start. Plz help! Thanks in advance!
I get this. It just started happening. I have no freakin clue how i created this problem but I am sorely annoyed by it.
Anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of the "offline" status of my EVO?
C:\android-sdk-windows>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT05THL04973 offline
mindcrime11 said:
I get this. It just started happening. I have no freakin clue how i created this problem but I am sorely annoyed by it.
Anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of the "offline" status of my EVO?
C:\android-sdk-windows>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT05THL04973 offline
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I'm also getting this on a Droid X running Android 2.2.1, using the Android SDK Tools Revision 8.
It happened after I ran rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin as part of the "DarkOnion Root for Droid2" procedure for rooting the Droid X. This error is preventing me from completing the procedure. Does anyone know how to fix this error?
EDIT: I was able to correct the error by rebooting my phone (powering down and then powering up). Afterwards, I was able to complete the root procedure, although I'm not sure how to test it.
EDIT2: Just tried running the Wifi Tether app for root users. It says I'm still not rooted. :::sigh:::
If you have hboot 2.10 then you have to do things differently. Namely you need to use Android Terminal Emulator on your phone instead of adb on a command prompt after you push the files over.
It seems that adb gets permanently killed by rage exploit. Check the Hboot 2.02 thread for more details in the dev section.

[Q] achieving Radio S-off

hi guys apologies in advance if this in the wrong forum.
i have recently downgraded and permantly rooted my phone (i now have super user permission etc) however: (apologies for the long post)
addictivetips.com
is the guide ive been following for the rooting part and it now moves on to radio S- off. Im stumped and googled a solution before i came across this forum and am totally stuck on the next part...
i have installed android SDK program (unsure as to why though) and downloaded the needed bits to achieve the radio off. I can command prompt from the folder on my desktop (right click and command prompt here) however completing the next bits i get " not a valid command or an internal or external blah blah blah..".
can you please help??
i also found an "easy radio off toolkit" which just says "error occured probably connection".
i have my phone connected via USB charge only and debugging on.
thanks !!!
For a quick answer/reply I suggest you post your Q here, jkoljo checks this post almost everyday and answers the questions
Good luck

[Q] Quite a challenge, usb broken but trying to mod htc desire

Okay, so I have a HTC Desire which is quite a pain in the ass, the USB is broken so I cannot easily root my Desire. I want to try out some custom roms, but this isn't really possible.
My HTC Desire:
Android 2.3.3
Software 3.14.405.1
Everything stock, S-ON, no root, no custom recovery
What I tried all ready:
Trying to get temp root so I could flash recovery using z4Root & VIOSIONary+, GingerBreak, all failed
Trying to get temp root using the rageagainstthecage method, it shows "Forked Childs", but when i close the terminal my phone will hang or the terminal won't start up again, so still no temp root
First it was still on Froyo, tried all methods. Then I updated it to GingerBread, tried all methods again + GingerBreak.
It's not that it has the USB Brick, it really is a hardware problem.
I spend two days on the problem by searching the form, but I really can't figure it out.
Please help me out!!
With a 2.3.3 and no usb, I'd imagine that what you want is next to impossible. You probably will have to get the hardware fixed before attempting this. Btw, just for completion sake, if I were you, I'd connect it to a Linux box and see if I can get any adb connection. that'd eliminate windows driver issues
Hardware fix wil even be harder, the connector inside is broken and messed up and I really don't know how to fix that. Btw, I already tried on a MAC computer, but also no luck. On a Windows PC it says, USB device not recognized (with HTC Sync installed), code 43, looked that up but couldn't find an answer. An a Mac it says, this device uses to much power and could not be connected for security reason, or something like that. Anyway, thanx for your reply!
Well, I'd say that you're definitely not going to get a solution from here. Try the Alpharev IRC channel. This is beyond most people in this forum.
One question that come's in mind: how the *** are you charging your phone ?
But now on topic. Why not solder a new usb connector to your phones motherboard ?
I just looked at some disassemble movies from youtube, seems like it's not to difficult to remove the broken one and replace it with a new one.
I presume as a junior member i cannot place any direct links, but search for HTC Desire A8181/A8180 Micro USB Data Charging Port Connector and for as low as $2,00 you can fix your problem.
The charger does work but I thing one of the pins for connection to the computer is broken inside.
Thanx for pointing that out, shouldn't be that hard I guess. I'm just going to order one and hope it will solve my problems.
Still i'm wondering, why the rage against the cage method does not work, does anyone else have this problem?
Everything does seem right, I placed it in /data/data/jackpal.androidterm/, changed chmod, execute, it says the "Forked Child, I close my terminal emulator, try to restart but it won't do anything until I restart my phone. I have two terminal emulators, the other one I can startup after the method, but it doesn't give me su. When I try the method again on the other terminal, my phone hangs and it needs a restart. I haven't read it somewhere else that someone has this problem so it's kinda weird.
I suspect that rageagainstthecage was closed in Android 2.3.3. zergrush works, but it operates over adb
Hmm, than maybe another option is control adb via WiFi, but can't found real success stories about that. There are some threads that say there can be a connection via WiFi without root, but can't figure it out, again.

[Q] How can i root a defy?

Hi Everyone!
I have been given a Defy MB525 with Froyo installed
Apparently O2 and Motoblur don't like each other 'cos I can't locate the phone or do anything else using "My Motoblur" as Motoblur wants Microsoft Explorer and I have Linux on my computer.
I want to manipulate files and basically get full access to my phone using a nice friendly Linux GUI, but apparently I need to root the bloody thing.
I know this question has been asked before. The thread below is an example.
http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9456771
The thread mentions Z4root as an answer.. It doesn't exist anymore.
It then talks about adb and pushing files into the phone.
In the most part this worked
The bit that didn't was "adb push exploit.bin /data/local/tmp/exploit.bin"
It doesn't exist on the zip file attached..
It did however have "rageagainsthecage-arm5.bin" instead
I changed the name to exploit bin in the vain hope that it might be the one and continued the instructions.
It obviously wasn't the one as :
a) it wouldn't come out of the program and
b) I got the $ sign instead of the # sign, which meant I was not root.
This was confirmed when I did the next step in the instructions and got permission denied.
After a switch off and on again (the phone) I cannot even get get back into the phone using adb. It just comes up "error: device not found" even though Linux is showing it as a directory.
So! What next?
Yours in anticipation
Fitchie
I use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044765 and work very fine with froyo
You can look at the stickies at the top of the forum before posting, see "Defy all-in-one beginner's guide", understand that it probably refers to you and most likely contains the answers to any beginner questions you'd want to ask, open it, read it in case you're serious or just look for "rooting" word if you're not.
Well, you already missed the first part and posted the thread, but you could still do the rest.
Given that you're running Linux on your PC, I'm a bit puzzled - I'd think that the described above is expected from someone with unorthodox OS that is likely used to searching for various guides.
Using "SuperOneClick" is the best way to do Root on your Defy MB525.
I've done this. .. hope it'll help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1551472

[Q] Rooting - What's the manual process?

I'd like to put together a guide outlining how to root/S-OFF an Android Incredible 2 with Mac OS X, and perhaps develop a tool to assist. I've just done it with Parallels and Windows 7 via Revolutionary, but it seems to me there *must* be a way to do it directly. I know I can get ADB working, and issue commands via the terminal. The recoveries and ROMs are platform independent. Can someone tell me what a tool like Revolutionary actually *does* on a Linux system? Is it simply a matter of scripting a series of commands to perform some actions on some files? I don't seem to be able to find much reference on the nuts and bolts of the process, but it seems like duplicating it in Unix should be fairly simple. Any info or directions to further documentation would be much appreciated!
Edit: All I really need is link to some directions for manually rooting an Android Phone (and achieving S-OFF). Maybe something older, from before the days of packages like Revolutionary? Anyone?
Edit 2: OK, how about just very rough list of what ADB does during a Revolution-like session (send commands, push files)? If I can figure this out perhaps I'll have something to offer the thousands of Mac users who want to root their Android phones.

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