I apologize if this is already answered somewhere. I searched everywhere and could not find anything, but I might be using the wrong wording.
Anyways I am attempting to root my G2. I have managed to get adb onto the computer and it recognizes my phone. However, the next step in the wiki says to:
ON YOUR PC: Unzip the gfree_temp-root.zip files to a folder. From a cmd window or terminal, navigate to that folder and execute these commands:
$ adb push su /sdcard/su
$ adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
$ adb push rage /data/local/tmp/rage
$ adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox
$ adb push root /data/local/tmp/root
$ adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/*
However, it gives me error messages such as 'adb' is not recognized. I'm sure I am missing stupid but I cannot figure it out. Thanks in advance.
Just use visionary, it is much easier. Click temp root and when it is done perm root
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...m/320722/19-nov-r14-visionary-one-click-root/
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I don't trust visionary. I want to go about this the safest way which is the gfree method.
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Make sure that the adb (and other stuff tha got installed) is in your PATH environment, or cd to that diectory and work from there.
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I don't trust visionary. I want to go about this the safest way which is the gfree method.
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I used visionary and it worked just fine, but you do what you feel best with
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Make sure that the adb (and other stuff tha got installed) is in your PATH environment, or cd to that diectory and work from there.
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I checked the path a few times because I thought that was the problem. However, it all looks good. I'm going to try on another computer tonight and see if that helps.
Did you make sure that all the necessary drivers were installed?
When you type 'ADB Devices' does it show your phone?
I used visionary and terminal emulator and haven't had any problems at all.
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Did you make sure that all the necessary drivers were installed?
When you type 'ADB Devices' does it show your phone?
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Yes it shows my phone when I type 'ADB Devices' That's what's causing my confusion. I've reinstalled all the drivers that are needed. From what I am seeing it SHOULD work.
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ok so adb is installed and working however when I do "adb shell" I get $ not # and permission denied on everything I do. Phone is rooted via VISIONary, debug on, adb recognizes device and "ls" command gives proper read/ logcat works, any help would be AWESOME!
please don't be asses I would have posted this in the [SOLVED][ADB] Won't install correctly for my G2 thread but it's locked....
thanks in advance
Did you type "su" after adb_shell?
Yes and it just hangs...
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Ok so I guess this one falls under the age old "have you tried turning it off and on again" method of dealing with windows... root access achieved.
Thanks for help KShatzkes....
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So after 7 attempts, i decided i should seek help.
I've been trying to root my g2 using VISIONary r14.
1. I installed visionary r14 [i have usb debugging on] i leave all the check boxes unchecked and hit temp root
2. after temp root is finished, i hit attempt perm root.
phone reboots. i see superuser permission in the app drawer, all seems to be
fine.
3. Now I plug my phone to my PC via usb [i have the androidSDK and all drivers installed properly]
i change directory to C:\AndroidSDK\tools\
check adb devices and my device is listed.
then i shoot the following commands
adb push wpthis-OTA.ko /data/local/wpthis-OTA.ko
adb push hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0/data/local/hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0
adb shell
su
and this returns permission denied.
Ive searched everywhere and everyone says when the superuser prompt shows up check "Remember" and click yes. However this does not show up for me, at all.
I even go into terminal and try it, terminal also gives me 'Permission Denied'
any help anyone?
I'd just do it using the rage method. You obviously understand how to use some simple commands in adb, it's just that there's a few (read: not many) more. It's stickied in the development section.
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Yes rage way is the way to go. I think its a total of about 4 lines you need to enter
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yeah i ended up using the rage method, it was a lot easier than i thought it would be.
I did it using visionary r13 and terminal emulator. No pc. Go to youtube look up Blackprince310 he made a video on it. If it it doesn't work try permroot option on r13.
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I would love to go the rage way, but I cannot get any permissions to do so...
Visionary r14 gives me a parsing error and does not install....
I've spent about 8 hours today trying to get this done!!! sigh!
Crey23 said:
I would love to go the rage way, but I cannot get any permissions to do so...
Visionary r14 gives me a parsing error and does not install....
I've spent about 8 hours today trying to get this done!!! sigh!
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What steps have you taken? The rage way does not require visionary at all.
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What steps have you taken? The rage way does not require visionary at all.
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right!!! I've been sitting at my pc for about 8 or 9 hours trying to root.
I continue to get adb: permission denied message no matter what I try. I follwed the adb for dummies guide that didnt work. I tried the VISONary r14 apk, I can't even open it.....
I'm beggining to wonder if I should run recovery first, get back to stock, and then try to root....how will that affect all my apps? Will it work?
Well you can always back them up with titanium backup. But yea i think you should do a factory reset then try the rage method. Follow the guide word for word. If you still got problems post em here i will try to help as much as i can. The whole process should take around 5min.
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I dont know how to link to a post with the xda app so here is the guide quoted
trigeek said:
There's already a guide here for obtaining permanent root using VISIONary, but some folks in #G2ROOT are having issues with the way that VISIONary modifies parititons. Using rage directly is a bit cleaner, since you know exactly what it's going to touch at each step of the way. I did NOT come up with any of this on my own, I'm building completely off of work that others have done. Speaking of which-
None of this would be possible without the tireless work that scotty2 put in. He stayed with the project for well over a month, through lots of smashed hopes and dead ends, until the solution was finally found. Were it not for his work, as well as the help of a few other key folks- we wouldn't be here. He deserves our thanks and some donations! We're talking hundreds of hours of work here, a couple bucks is not too much for that. His paypal is:
[email protected]Send him some love! I'm not asking for anything myself, because I spent a half hour putting this together, and that doesn't deserve any donations!
[size=+2]G2 ROOT INSTRUCTIONS[/size]
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These are modified instructions based on the ones posted at http://bit.ly/g2root that use Visionary. A number of people have run into issues with the way that Visionary juggles around temporary partitions, and using the original root exploit is a much easier, and cleaner method for achieving permanent root. This tutorial will walk you through the rooting process by first achieving temporary root, and moving on to permanent root.
[size=+1]REQUIREMENTS[/size]
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Visionary disabled at boot or uninstalled completely
Android Terminal Emulator app
ADB
vision-combined-root.zip (Attached to this post, OR these two files: )
G2TempRoot.zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797042) NOTE: only download the files! Don't follow these instructions yet
vision-perm-root.zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833965) NOTE: again, just download the files from the thread.
In the commands to run below, $ or # represent the prompt and should NOT be entered as part of the commands.
[size=+2]VERY IMPORTANT![/size]Visionary has caused filesystem corruption for some users during the rooting process. Before attempting the instructions below, make sure that you have "auto run on boot" turned OFF, and reboot your system. Since you will not need visionary anyway after this, you might as well just uninstall visionary and reboot NOW before doing anything.
[size=+1]TEMP ROOT[/size]
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ON YOUR PC:
Unzip the G2TempRoot files to a folder. From a cmd window or terminal, navigate to that folder and execute these commands:
Code:
$ adb push su /sdcard/su
$ adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
$ adb push rage /data/local/tmp/rage
$ adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox
$ adb push root /data/local/tmp/root
$ adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/*
ON YOUR PHONE:
Launch Terminal Emulator
/data/local/tmp/rage
Wait for the message: "Forked #### childs."
Menu > Reset Term - Terminal Emulator will exit.
Launch Terminal Emulator, it Force Closes. Launch a second time, and you'll have a root shell
**NOTE**: in the original directions from the XDA thread, you are instructed to run the /data/local/tmp/root script here. DON'T do this
just yet. Leave the terminal window open.
[size=+1]PERM ROOT[/size]
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ON YOUR PC:
unzip the vision-perm-root.zip and navigate to that folder. There will be four files. You will need to push two of these to your phone- hboot-eng.img, and one of the wpthis-[..].ko files.
If you HAVE applied the OTA update, push wpthis-OTA.ko.
If you HAVE NOT applied the OTA update, push wpthis-pre-OTA.ko.
Code:
$ adb push hboot-eng.img /data/local
$ adb push wpthis-OTA.ko /data/local
ON YOUR PHONE:
You should still have terminal emulator up, at a root prompt. Now run:
Code:
# insmod /data/local/wpthis-OTA.ko
You should see:
Code:
init_module 'wpthis-OTA.ko' failed (Function not implemented)
That means it worked. This next step is CRUCIAL. You must make sure that you are writing to the proper partition here or you could brick your phone. To be absolutely clear- the partition is mmcblk(zero)p(one)(eight)
Code:
dd if=/data/local/hboot-eng.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
You should see some messages indicating that it was written. Next, run:
Code:
# /data/local/tmp/root
This will lock in root, and give you 'su' access in the future. Next, run:
Code:
# sync
Now wait at least a minute, just to be safe. After waiting, reboot your phone using the power button. After it finishes starting up, launch the terminal emulator, and type 'su'. You should get the prompt asking you to grant permissions. If you got the prompt, congratulations! You have permanent root!
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i need help, i perm rooted my phone now it got stuck at the HTC start up! what should i do?? pls reply ASAP!
I am currently in the process of rooting my G2 and when i have to enter this command, (adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/* and adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter) i get no such file or directory everytime. All other commands enter in without a problem. What is chmod 775 anyway. it is the only thing not previously included in the rooting process. Can anyone please give me some feedback on what is going wrong here
thanks
What ever you are doing stop now.
You're doing that the hard way. Here's what u do goto theunlockr.com and then click how to's, then goto the g2 picture then u want to do the how to get temp root first then once that is completed do the permanent root tutotrial. Everything on theunlockr has a video and text so u can't f up.
My best wishes and if u need help like asap jus send a pm or email me [email protected] gmail
gamestar21 said:
I am currently in the process of rooting my G2 and when i have to enter this command, (adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/* and adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter) i get no such file or directory everytime. All other commands enter in without a problem. What is chmod 775 anyway. it is the only thing not previously included in the rooting process. Can anyone please give me some feedback on what is going wrong here
thanks
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What guide are you following?
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I'm stuck in the same place. I get operation denied every time...
Please help
A lot of people say its because you haven't set up the path correctly to the abd folder or haven't put the root files in the right abd folder.
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Where to find 'chmod' answers
I had to exchange my G2. The one T-Mo sent is running Gingerbread(?) ver 2.3.4
I've been to theunlocker.com and in the procedure to downgrade so that I can root, http://theunlockr.com/2011/07/22/how-to-downgrade-a-gingerbread-t-mobile-g2-so-it-can-be-rooted/ two of the steps are to enter in terminal:
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
and
chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
When I do this I get 'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
I have spent several hours in the forums and can't find where I've gone wrong or where to find 'chmod'
Someone please help me
SOLVED, use this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912 and also (from one noob to another) it helps to type 'adb shell chmod....' if that is one of the issues you're having
You don't seem to be in the directory that you have adb installed. Change directory to there and you should be good
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I've searched my entire hard drive, both mac & xp. It's not there. I've downloaded the SDK twice, I can't find it anywhere.
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noflopscott said:
I've searched my entire hard drive, both mac & xp. It's not there. I've downloaded the SDK twice, I can't find it anywhere.
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On my xp it installed to c:/program files/android/android-sdk/platform-tools/ automatically, maybe try there. If you can't find it try downloading just the adb program and putting it in your adk platform-tools folder. You did also download the android development package right?
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I went ahead and downloaded the ENTIRE sdk, from 1.5 to 3.3, did a hard drive search, still nowhere to be found :-c. Any other ideas?
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noflopscott said:
I went ahead and downloaded the ENTIRE sdk, from 1.5 to 3.3, did a hard drive search, still nowhere to be found :-c. Any other ideas?
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Are you even installing the SDK? Follow this guide to get ADB up and running: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685
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This method worked http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
Followed it letter by letter and I was downgraded from 2.3.4 to 2.2 in just a few minutes :-D
Im using linux and im trying to install Galaxy S II theme that posted at themes and apps forum
that what im doing
[email protected]:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
43423541314434573458 device
[email protected]:~$ cd /home/aviv/GTHEME
[email protected]:~/GTHEME$ adb push android.policy.jar /sdcard/
failed to copy 'android.policy.jar' to '/sdcard//android.policy.jar': Permission denied
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need help :|
Locked Bootloader with root
adb on linux - ubuntu 11.04
LightingZ said:
Im using linux and im trying to install Galaxy S II theme that posted at themes and apps forum
that what im doing
need help :|
Locked Bootloader with root
adb on linux - ubuntu 11.04
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What Rom / kernel are you running?
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Orginal kernel and SE World Generic 2.3.3
adb typically needs to be run as root.
zerojay said:
adb typically needs to be run as root.
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How do i run it with root?
if i write sudo adb <command> (example)
it's says sudo: adb no such command
Run the command su first, it'll ask you for your root password (if you set it up) and root persists until you exit
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su + adb command (su adb push)
not works :|
ok
i got SUPERUSER PERMISSION
i type
adb shell
then
su
and then it asked for allow or deny i press allow
no effects yet
Just double checking, are you running as root on ubuntu?
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just type su on it's own and hit enter, then adb commands on a separate line (after entering linux root password, obviously)
also (i'm not sure how much this will affect it) try running chmod on adb...
Happened to me, make sure your SD card isn't mounted while your using adb
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Is it okay to use use a mac on htcdev.com?
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juan91 said:
Is it okay to use use a mac on htcdev.com?
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I don't see why not? Its just a website.
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But like the actual unlocking process fastboot and command prompt
according to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671577 its not a problem.
For Mac, no drivers needed, unzip Evo4GLTERoot.zip to your Downloads directory then open up a terminal and do:
Code:
cd Downloads/Evo4GLTERoot
chmod 755 *
sh runmemac.sh
thats a direct copy and paste from the page..make sure it applies to you though.
nrvlljr said:
according to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671577 its not a problem.
For Mac, no drivers needed, unzip Evo4GLTERoot.zip to your Downloads directory then open up a terminal and do:
Code:
cd Downloads/Evo4GLTERoot
chmod 755 *
sh runmemac.sh
thats a direct copy and paste from the page..make sure it applies to you though.
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This is an original evo 4g though...
Not an lte.
But, that means htcdev.com will still work on Mac
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I really have to pay better attention..thats the 2nd time I've pointed at an irrelevant thread.