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How to root on a MAC OSx

Hi guys,
I have a rooted HTC Desire that I rooted myself on a PC but I mainly use my Mac and I wanna know how to root it on the Mac as well. I've followed the tutorial by benko286 on the boards but every time I hit step1-mac.sh, it starts the terminal, then asks my password,I enter my password, it then says the stuff below and it shuts down the terminal.
About to start flash...
sudo: ./fastboot-mac: command not found
Any idea why this is happening? I'd really love to learn how to do this on the mac platform as well.
Thanks in advance,

Do you have the Android SDK for Mac OSX installed?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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Hey mas,
Here we meet again. I am the guy with all the adb questions. No, I didn't know that was necessary. What do I do, once I download the file? Where should I save the files in the zip file?

Hi bud,
I'm not that familiar with Macs, but try installing the SDK, extract it to the root of your hard drive. Open terminal and get to the exact folder path of the downloaded r5 folder and then try executing the step1 command. Also ensure you have HTC sync installed.
EDIT: have you come across this?
Works on Macs too and will be alot easier for you:
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
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fastboot-mac is a shell script is it not?
so you need to execute it with the correct bash command
so type ' sh fastboot-mac '

Rooting method: When the regular way fails

You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!

what's z4root used for when visionary does temproot for you?
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You may not need it but when I was attempting to root the phone, that's what I used.
I am thinking you can follow the steps, omit the z4root steps and just use visionary.
For some reason my phone did not want to unlock just with visionary.

Dont work for me,,,,i try all the stuff here,,i dont know what im doing wrong,,cause the phone said s.off but when im reboot the phone still on
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Wait it says s-off? Then you're good, all you do after the reboot, is run z4root and perm root it

If you follow the directions that grankln posted and do it right then you wont have any problems rooting it. If someone follows that guide and correctly it will root their phone. Its proven to work so if its not working on someone's phone chances are high they aren't doing it right. This thread in unnecessary especially since there are already a few methods of rooting already posted. You are just going to confuse people more
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graffixnyc said:
If you follow the directions that grankln posted and do it right then you wont have any problems rooting it. If someone follows that guide and correctly it will root their phone. Its proven to work so if its not working on someone's phone chances are high they aren't doing it right. This thread in unnecessary especially since there are already a few methods of rooting already posted. You are just going to confuse people more
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I've never seen that guide fail when all steps are performed correctly. Even in irc, when people say that that method doesn't work, I walk them through the steps and it magically works when it failed every time before.

No luck
lumos5 said:
You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!
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well it doesn't work. i try many ways & still nothing.
still have S-ON
Hboot- 0.86.0000
this sucks. rooted about 41 G1/ Mytouch 3G never faced a problem.
smh guess someone should come out with a video for this

lumos5 said:
You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!
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Is this the Best way to Root the MyTouch?

PMGRANDS said:
Is this the Best way to Root the MyTouch?
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Look at the past post, post count, and you will have your answer... Tried and true is the way to go though!
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This method works on 2.3.4 ?
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King350z said:
This method works on 2.3.4 ?
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No, you have to downgrade. Check the resource Bible, they're a few threads on how to do it. Then you can root your phone.
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
........Death before dishonor........

For God's sake. Having root without write access to the system partition is next to worthless. If anyone has questions regarding rooting there phone then please read the how to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996. If you can't figure it out do not go ahead with a procedure you don't understand! Not trying to be a **** but what works is posted. Its proven. It does the trick.
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Rooting

Hi I have rooted my Desire and now rooting my Desire Z but it is so much harder.
I'm rooting after this tutorial. But I dont understand start of all this. "You will need to push two of these to your phone: hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0 and wpthis-Z.ko. The other two files are optional for checksum verification.
"
So I have to open my windows cmd?
what I have to write before
adb push hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0 /data/local
adb push wpthis-Z.ko /data/local
so these files go to my phone?
I have to use charge only or disc drive?

KRolands said:
Hi I have rooted my Desire and now rooting my Desire Z but it is so much harder.
I'm rooting after this tutorial. But I dont understand start of all this. "You will need to push two of these to your phone: hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0 and wpthis-Z.ko. The other two files are optional for checksum verification.
"
So I have to open my windows cmd?
what I have to write before
adb push hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0 /data/local
adb push wpthis-Z.ko /data/local
so these files go to my phone?
I have to use charge only or disc drive?
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Hi!
Don't follow this guide! It is heavily outdated.
Either follow the "official" guide at the wiki: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD
If you have a Desire Z with a software version higher than 1.34 you have to downgrade it first (but thats also described at the wiki)
Have fun - Guhl

Rooting

to anyone who can't gain root using zergrush method and cant use recovery i found a way to root it using tacoroot and unlock root
1. download unlockroot and tacoroot.bin (PM me if you would like a link)
2.run tacoroot and write the following
* adb push tacoroot.bin /data/local/
* adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tacoroot.bin
* adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.bin --setup
* adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.bin --root
(dont close this window yet)
3.it will not yet boot properly and have bootloop
4.keep it bootlooping
5.open unlockroot and click root
6.IMPORTANT before the rooting of unlock root finishes you should type * adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.bin --undo
7. Hope for the best I dont know if it will work for you but it worked for me
PS: If the mods find this thread of being spam feel free to remove i'm just sharing my expierience

First.........there is a huge Wildfire S Q & A section
Second......search for Doomlord's easy rooting toolkit........it simply roots the phone without the need of using commands in ADB

isn't doomlord rooting kit zergrush?

Yes.....it does the saves the typing of the commands of the zergrush exploit...........it's a real pain to type the commands(not an avid typer)

Thanks.....ngoralph
after 2 days i found this and i did all the commands using the tacoroot.bin from htcsupertool folder and i think this is the only solution to root without CWM recovery..and after using all the methods (superone click,unlock root,htcsupertool )no thing helped me until i found this..
I think the secret was in the tacoroot.bin and how to push it ,,,,
note: still CWM recovery stuck in white htc logo...but doesn't matter...
VERY VERY THANKS

Search 2fast4u. I rooted my phone with his program. I have a marvelc.
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What a way to delete the core programs

Hello every one
First of all. I have a problem I can not delete the basic device software note I have root authority
II. Was installed busyBox but I can not install it and when the installation device works Risterat What problem

read about write system protection.
tutos are available on this forum (wp_mod.ko file to push in system/lib/modules, and run a command on the phone with a terminal app)
#su
insmod system/lib/modules/wp_mod.ko
if im speaking chinese, dont try
but as you tried to change partitions before having write protection removed, you wont be able to do it without a restart until you reflash your rom (clean install)

fabulous69 said:
read about write system protection.
tutos are available on this forum (wp_mod.ko file to push in system/lib/modules, and run a command on the phone with a terminal app)
#su
insmod system/lib/modules/wp_mod.ko
if im speaking chinese, dont try
but as you tried to change partitions before having write protection removed, you wont be able to do it without a restart until you reflash your rom (clean install)
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Excuse me, I hope if they do not understand you, and my heartfelt thanks for the quick feedback if possible, a simple explanation for the action steps

i think you shouldn't try to do it...
a bad understanding of a Tutorial, and you could make your phone bug.

Follow These Steps....
muhamadalani said:
Excuse me, I hope if they do not understand you, and my heartfelt thanks for the quick feedback if possible, a simple explanation for the action steps
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Quoted from Step 2 Here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/guide-vm-htc-desire-816-root-how-to-t2862470 ,
2. Hopefully you were able to successfully install custom recovery and root.
Now this part is a bit tricky. Even with root HTC is stopping us from writing to system. For this we need to apply the wp_mod.ko module.
Download it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2707378
Copy this file to the root of your internal storage.
Now download Terminal Emulator from play store, run it and enter the following commands (you only need to do this once):
su
insmod /sdcard/wp_mod.ko
Once you do this go into a root explorer app and mount /system as R/W. Copy the wp_mod.ko file to /system/lib/modules
Now go to /system/etc and find install-recovery.sh. Open it with a text editor and add a new line at the end with the following:
insmod /system/lib/modules/wp_mod.ko
Reboot! If all went well the wp_mod module will run at boot every time so you won't have to do it manually each time!
Congratulations, you now have a fully rooted Desire 816!

jayblaze406 said:
Quoted from Step 2 Here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/guide-vm-htc-desire-816-root-how-to-t2862470 ,
2. Hopefully you were able to successfully install custom recovery and root.
Now this part is a bit tricky. Even with root HTC is stopping us from writing to system. For this we need to apply the wp_mod.ko module.
Download it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2707378
Copy this file to the root of your internal storage.
Now download Terminal Emulator from play store, run it and enter the following commands (you only need to do this once):
su
insmod /sdcard/wp_mod.ko
Once you do this go into a root explorer app and mount /system as R/W. Copy the wp_mod.ko file to /system/lib/modules
Now go to /system/etc and find install-recovery.sh. Open it with a text editor and add a new line at the end with the following:
insmod /system/lib/modules/wp_mod.ko
Reboot! If all went well the wp_mod module will run at boot every time so you won't have to do it manually each time!
Congratulations, you now have a fully rooted Desire 816!
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Thank you
Unfortunately, I could not do a thing did not work the way and I do not know why:crying::crying::crying: