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How to check if phone is rooted?!

Is there a way to check if my phone has successfully rooted i.e. what would show in the software section of "about phone" and how would that differ from the standard generic rom?
Had a coupld of error during rooting but it appeared to go all the way through but just want to make sure!
Thanks

Youll have a programme called superuser permissions!
Lets hope we beat fulham on sunday

Spot on, I'm rooted! Only issue now is that I can't get into recovery mode on my windows 7 machine. Had to borrow a mates xp machine which I now don't have access to so bugger all point rooting seen as I can't install custom roms!
Are we likely to eventually get the ability to flash straight from the memory card?
Bit nervous about the weekend, if we slip up Tottenham will go 3rd. Not sure I could live with the shame!

you could install ubuntu? its a small os. you literally download wubi and it does it all for you!
lol yes i know! we should win though, andrei is back lol

Gooner4_1998 said:
Spot on, I'm rooted! Only issue now is that I can't get into recovery mode on my windows 7 machine. Had to borrow a mates xp machine which I now don't have access to so bugger all point rooting seen as I can't install custom roms!
Are we likely to eventually get the ability to flash straight from the memory card?
Bit nervous about the weekend, if we slip up Tottenham will go 3rd. Not sure I could live with the shame!
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huh? I still can get into the recovery mode using windows 7 64 bit without problem. just make sure u run as administrator.

Can't get it to work on windows 7 for love nor money! Using 64 bit edition if it makes any odds. I assumed that I was running as admin but just in case, how would I make 100% sure? Basically fails to connect every time.
Made a bootable usb with Linux on it but had no idea what I was doing once I got in! Tried running the recovery-linux.sh file in the terminal but no luck! Terminal popped up and disappeared just as quickly. Couldn't work out how to run it direct from the terminal to see the feedback!

Does the phone get recognized by your computer before you run the recovery? Do you hear the USB duh-duh device connected sound? If it fails to connect, it's just because USB hasn't found it yet. Give it a minute or check if it's missing drivers. You can ensure you're running as admin by just right clicking and selecting run as adminstrator. It should pop up a box asking if you're sure.
I routinely get into recovery on x64 Win 7, so it's not an OS thing. Keep at it, you can use your own computer.

Gooner4_1998 said:
Can't get it to work on windows 7 for love nor money! Using 64 bit edition if it makes any odds. I assumed that I was running as admin but just in case, how would I make 100% sure? Basically fails to connect every time.
Made a bootable usb with Linux on it but had no idea what I was doing once I got in! Tried running the recovery-linux.sh file in the terminal but no luck! Terminal popped up and disappeared just as quickly. Couldn't work out how to run it direct from the terminal to see the feedback!
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Right click on command prompt, choose run as administrator i think.

Phone is connected and I can see it in devices and printers section. All drivers are installed as well. Not sure what the issue is. I'm also unable to connect to HTC sync. Had the phone replaced so its not a hardware issue. Very frustrating!

holy crap ADB

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685
i followed that very first post step by step....and i still cannot get ADB to work to connect to my device, in fact, HTC sync does not even connect.
any help? i went thru all of those steps twice...not sure what im missing here.
im running windows 7 home premium 64bit. using HTC cable, on brand new 3 hour old G2. it connects to the computer, charges, and works in mass storage mode.

tackleberry said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685
i followed that very first post step by step....and i still cannot get ADB to work to connect to my device, in fact, HTC sync does not even connect.
any help? i went thru all of those steps twice...not sure what im missing here.
im running windows 7 home premium 64bit. using HTC cable, on brand new 3 hour old G2. it connects to the computer, charges, and works in mass storage mode.
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Did you download and install the Android SDK yet?

Heres a ADB set up Tutorial Video you can check out on how to get ADB up and running.

I use mini-adb since I have had complications setting it up on Windows 7. You can find the download link on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926486
You will just put the files you need to push inside of the folder you set up for it. Eaaaaasy!

simplyTravis said:
I use mini-adb since I have had complications setting it up on Windows 7. You can find the download link on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926486
You will just put the files you need to push inside of the folder you set up for it. Eaaaaasy!
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That's exactly what I used.
1.Make sure USB debugging is enabled under settings>applications>applications settings>development on your phone.
2. Connect your phone to your computer using usb.
3 Hold down on the shift key and then right click on the folder where you have adb.exe installed. From the menu select 'open command window here'.
4. A DOS Window will appear and after the prompt type: adb devices
5. This should give you a readout that says that daemon has started and then list your device.
6. if successful, you're ready to go. place/unzip all current and future files to be adb 'd into this folder and follow the commands provided from whatever you are trying to adb.

ok, ill try that soon. for some reason ADB does not like me or win7...ill feel better if it hates win 7 lol.
i did install sdk, just like the link i posted stated to do.

tackleberry said:
ok, ill try that soon. for some reason ADB does not like me or win7...ill feel better if it hates win 7 lol.
i did install sdk, just like the link i posted stated to do.
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lol...I remember when I first got started I was so intimidated by adb. Its really simple once you get past that first success. It will be one of those forehead in hand moments.

EdKeys said:
lol...I remember when I first got started I was so intimidated by adb. Its really simple once you get past that first success. It will be one of those forehead in hand moments.
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i dont feel intimidated by it, im more pissed off that the damn thing wont connect...now im just determined to get it to work, even if i never use the damn program lol

tackleberry said:
i dont feel intimidated by it, im more pissed off that the damn thing wont connect...now im just determined to get it to work, even if i never use the damn program lol
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The only other thing I can think of at this time is to go into device manager on your computer and see if one of the drivers is throwing an error. If it error'd out before you installed the drivers from htc you might have to delete/uninstall in device manager and have your computer once again "find" your phone and install the correct drivers which are now on your computer.

ADB doesn't like me either. I have tried setting it up six times. Twice from fresh Ubuntu installs. I don't like to think that I'm retarded, but it might be the case. I was never so happy as the day that the no ADB root thread appeared in the development forum.

[Q] Inc not recognized by ADB on Mac

Hey all,
My Incredible won't be recognized by ADB on my Mac through the terminal. I type in "adb devices" and it returns "List of connected devices" but doesn't actually list anything. If I try something like "adb shell" it says "error: no devices connected". What could the issue be?? I have a PC as well and ADB works fine on the PC.
If it helps at all the phone is recognized through fastboot on my Mac but I can't perform any operations... I tried to flash a new recovery through fastboot and when I tried to do "fastboot erase recovery" it returned something like "erase recovery failed status malformed"...
Thanks!

debug turned on? Thought that it needed to be adb

Yeah debug is on.... also in case it didn't go without saying I'm rooted.
Hope someone can help with this!
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA Premium App

Anyone have any ideas on this one?

Go here and follow steps for your system.....
http://androidsamurai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4&sid=e1f4ce4f9ba69613dca7ba5db4a711a2
if I helped please don't hesitate to hit the thanks button
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

Thanks for the advice, but I had already followed those directions when installing the SDK. As I said, the phone is recognized just fine on a Windows machine so I can only assume it's some setting that's perhaps incorrect on my Mac? Maybe in System Prefs?
I dunno. It isn't the biggest deal but it'd be nice to be able to use the ADB on my Mac without needing to boot up the PC. Thanks!

nufan947 said:
Thanks for the advice, but I had already followed those directions when installing the SDK. As I said, the phone is recognized just fine on a Windows machine so I can only assume it's some setting that's perhaps incorrect on my Mac? Maybe in System Prefs?
I dunno. It isn't the biggest deal but it'd be nice to be able to use the ADB on my Mac without needing to boot up the PC. Thanks!
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Are you positive your path is correct..... and if it is check and make sure there are no spaces or weird characters....
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

was it working before and it stopped working? I noticed that my Mac doesn't recognized the phone every once in a while with CM7 and the Incredikernel. I have to unplug it and plug it back in couple times to get it to register.

newtoroot said:
Are you positive your path is correct..... and if it is check and make sure there are no spaces or weird characters....
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I'm pretty sure it's correct because the Terminal recognizes the "adb" commands as valid. For example, I can run "adb shell" and it returns "error:device not found". So I don't think that's the issue...
Grooby97 said:
was it working before and it stopped working? I noticed that my Mac doesn't recognized the phone every once in a while with CM7 and the Incredikernel. I have to unplug it and plug it back in couple times to get it to register.
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The thing is, the computer recognizes the phone just fine. I can plug it in and select "disk drive" and both the phone and SD card mount without an problem. But when I try to run adb commands that's when it doesn't seem to see it for some reason.... I really don't get why this could be, when without changing a single setting on the phone it works fine on a PC. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't know what that might be.....

nufan947 said:
I'm pretty sure it's correct because the Terminal recognizes the "adb" commands as valid. For example, I can run "adb shell" and it returns "error:device not found". So I don't think that's the issue...
The thing is, the computer recognizes the phone just fine. I can plug it in and select "disk drive" and both the phone and SD card mount without an problem. But when I try to run adb commands that's when it doesn't seem to see it for some reason.... I really don't get why this could be, when without changing a single setting on the phone it works fine on a PC. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't know what that might be.....
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forgive me if im asking a dumb question im just trying to help you narrow down your problem,,,,,, did you check and make sure usb debugging is checked? and if you type adb devices what does it say? ive noticed on the newer sdk that i installed they moved adb to platform tools and out of tools so you might check those things

Yeah, USB debugging is checked... when I type "adb devices" I get "List of devices attached" and it doesn't actually list anything. And yeah, the Terminal is definitely pointing to the right folder, I don't think I'd be getting any sort of response if it was pointing towards the wrong place, right?
ADB definitely works. It just doesn't like my phone for some reason

Well it definitely works on OS X 10.6 that's what my laptop uses. Have you tried parallels or bootcamping into a version of Windows? My work iMac is a piece of dirt and does not like adb thru mac os x but works fine with win xp on parallels.

Yeah, I'm running 10.6 on my laptop as well... right now for when I want to use ADB I've just been running XP on my bootcamp partition, which works fine. It's not the worst solution in the world, but I'd prefer being able to do it on the Mac side of things, which is where I spend far more time.
This is very mysterious....

Questions regarding various stuff.

Sorry, i know you must get this all the time guys, but i'm really struggling with rooting and such.
I'm on 1.72 and have no idea how to downgrade. I know you might say "read the guide" blah blah, but i don't understand it "Moron" i hear you saying. Anyway, Is there a complete noob guide for it anywhere? Like literally one that talks you through every step?
Also, my screen cracked, so i opened it up and replaced the screen myself, didn't have insurance or the £170 to have them fix it. Before the screen cracked it was doing this thing where it looked all psychedelic, Whites have blue coming off them, blacks have reds coming off them, that kind of thing. and its doing it again. This made me think it was a software issue, it happen to anybody else? I was thinking if i put a different rom on it, it'd stop, but i dunno. Anyway, thanks for any help anyone gives.

Does the screen replacement involve the flat ribbon cable between the screen part of the phone and the keyboard? I'm thinking it doesn't, but I'm certainly no expert. A damaged ribbon cable can cause colors to display improperly.

Nah, its attached to the screen so it was a new one.

The screen only comes with a small ribbon cable that connects to the pcb in the front half of the phone.
There is a larger ribbon cable that connects the two halves of the phone together, you can see it if you hold the phone halfway between open and closed. If this cable gets damaged, which happens easier than you may think then it can causes all sorts of things to mess up, including the colours on your display.
Unfortunately this cable is attached to the screen pcb so needs to be replaced as one unit.

So i'd need to replace my main pcb? Damn. Thanks for the help though! Could anyone help me with rooting?!
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

at which point are you getting lost? sussed downgrading yet?

emdaftrave;14529179.Could anyone help me with rooting?! :D
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Man, trust me.. It took only 30 minutes for me to root my dz
But, the preparation ( search and search) took 2 weeks
But it worths trying
The main keys are to instal ADB things (sdk android ) and create a gold card. Once you understand how to do that, you already half way.
The links are in the wiki
Cheers
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Just have a search and there are numerous step by step guides, I was a total amateur and managed to do it, I think the hardest part to try learn would be using ABD (command prompt) and how to navigate to directories and push files but there are numerous guides on this forum so just pick your simplest and go for it!

elliott2705 said:
at which point are you getting lost? sussed downgrading yet?
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Pretty much trying to install the sdk, i think im gonna reinstall it because its being a bit dodgy for me. But thanks for all the help guys!
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

silverwind said:
Man, trust me.. It took only 30 minutes for me to root my dz
But, the preparation ( search and search) took 2 weeks
But it worths trying
The main keys are to instal ADB things (sdk android ) and create a gold card. Once you understand how to do that, you already half way.
The links are in the wiki
Cheers
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can you use the SD card already in there as a gold card, or do you need a separate one?

Ok so i have an actual problem now, not just not understanding the guides xD
On the Cyanogenmod wiki guide of how to install ADB, a couple of the steps are:
On success, open the command prompt on the computer, and type in the following command to sure everything is setup properly:
Code:
adb devices
If it lists any devices, everything is fine and you are finished. If not, the drivers may not be installed correctly, please continue.
Open the Device Manager.
Right-click on My Computer (Windows XP) or Computer (Windows Vista/7).
Click on Manage.
Click on Device Manager on the left.
You will probably see Unknown Device with ADB listed under it with a yellow exclamation mark.
Well i did just that, and it doesnt say unknown device anywhere, and yet when i type adb devices in command prompt, it says 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Anybody know what gives?

emdaftrave said:
Ok so i have an actual problem now, not just not understanding the guides xD
On the Cyanogenmod wiki guide of how to install ADB, a couple of the steps are:
On success, open the command prompt on the computer, and type in the following command to sure everything is setup properly:
Code:
adb devices
If it lists any devices, everything is fine and you are finished. If not, the drivers may not be installed correctly, please continue.
Open the Device Manager.
Right-click on My Computer (Windows XP) or Computer (Windows Vista/7).
Click on Manage.
Click on Device Manager on the left.
You will probably see Unknown Device with ADB listed under it with a yellow exclamation mark.
Well i did just that, and it doesnt say unknown device anywhere, and yet when i type adb devices in command prompt, it says 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Anybody know what gives?
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you either need to cd to the folder within your android sdk that adb is in (I think it's platform-tools), or add the android sdk path to your environment variables (google this, it's easy to do).
open up your command prompt and type:
cd C:\path-to-android-sdk\platform-tools
adb devices
if you don't add the path to your android sdk in the environment variables, you'll have to cd to the folder with adb every time you need to use it... not a big deal if you're not using adb a lot, but it gets annoying if you're opening up a command prompt to push/pull/shell regularly.

pmcqueen said:
you either need to cd to the folder within your android sdk that adb is in (I think it's platform-tools), or add the android sdk path to your environment variables (google this, it's easy to do).
open up your command prompt and type:
cd C:\path-to-android-sdk\platform-tools
adb devices
if you don't add the path to your android sdk in the environment variables, you'll have to cd to the folder with adb every time you need to use it... not a big deal if you're not using adb a lot, but it gets annoying if you're opening up a command prompt to push/pull/shell regularly.
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ok, i've done it, thank you very much! now to just downgrade and root!

Ok so i'm using the XDA wiki guide on rooting, and i've got to the part where you move all the files onto the phone. Specifically, the files that aren't moving are:
$ adb push flash_image /data/local/tmp/
$ adb push su /sdcard/,
I'm getting a "Permission denied" error in command prompt. I also don't have an /sdcard directory on my phone, maybe thats why i'm getting an error?
EDIT: Never mind, i had the phone in Disk Drive mode when it wasn't supposed to be. Sorry for the double post.

[AlphaRevX] Public Beta 2 for dInc2

Hi guys,
The day has arrived:
AlphaRevX now includes support for the Droid Incredible 2 (HBOOT 0.97).
Hop on over to http://alpharev.nl/x/beta/
We'll use this as a support thread.
This version will also download and flash custom recovery if you want to, after getting S-OFF.
Note: the very first download missed some DLLs for the windows version, that should be included now.

USB Drivers here: http://www.multiupload.com/2OFYWZFCCR
EDIT: Currently does NOT work in Windows. Use Linux.
Small Linux distro here: Download Puppy Linux
Download that, burn it to a CD or put it on a flash drive with UNetbootin.
Boot up and download/make a new key for Linux. Extract it and run as root. (open terminal and run "sudo ./alpharevx")
I couldn't get it to work in vmWare.

mines stuck on waiting for fastboot...im on window 7 64 bit, im gonna try reinstalling the drivers, but nothing else ive tried works
after reinstalling drivers....it now says failed

I am testing with my friend phone's , mine was off with xtc clip .
Thanks for work

Hell. YEAH. I'll be attempting this tomorrow!

Praise the lord, the dream is alive.
Many thanks to all the hard working folks out there. Y'all rock.
Happy rooting to all.
Sent from my ADR6350 using XDA App

It keeps on disconnecting and reconnecting, and that makes it get stuck. I uninstalled the htc sync and drivers and reinstalled the linked driver here. Going to try again. It just flat out failed the first time, got all the way to rebooting the bootloader x2 the second time, but then failed. Both times I heard the bu-dunk of a device being unconnected from my computer. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
Edit: I tried downloading the alpharev file again, and it had more stuff in it this time. Going to try again. Will post results.
Edit 2:Still no joy. Failed in the same spot. Tried on xp and same thing. Will dig around for my old ubuntu cd and see what happens.

I keep getting stuck at waiting for fastboot also, win7 pro 64 also, might boot into linux and see if it works that way

Are there specific system requirements for this to run?

logan4434 said:
mines stuck on waiting for fastboot...im on window 7 64 bit, im gonna try reinstalling the drivers, but nothing else ive tried works
after reinstalling drivers....it now says failed
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devator22 said:
It keeps on disconnecting and reconnecting, and that makes it get stuck. I uninstalled the htc sync and drivers and reinstalled the linked driver here. Going to try again. It just flat out failed the first time, got all the way to rebooting the bootloader x2 the second time, but then failed. Both times I heard the bu-dunk of a device being unconnected from my computer. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
Edit: I tried downloading the alpharev file again, and it had more stuff in it this time. Going to try again. Will post results.
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TheWh0leTruth said:
I keep getting stuck at waiting for fastboot also, win7 pro 64 also, might boot into linux and see if it works that way
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Let's put a error summary here:
- Windows 7 32/64bit (or all Windows OS?)
- HTC Sync not installed.
- HTC Drivers (provided by Alpharev) installed.
- switching USB ports tried
- two fastboot attempts
+ specifically for those without .dll problems (resolved).
Also, could a mod possibly merge the three Alpharevx threads..? :/

On Windows 32 it makes it up to the Fastboot process. Enter the key, everything works good, then it gets to the section trying to change the Fastboot and fails each time.

Do I need Android sdk for this, for adb.

jkhonea said:
On Windows 32 it makes it up to the Fastboot process. Enter the key, everything works good, then it gets to the section trying to change the Fastboot and fails each time.
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Added to summary.

instructions?

jkhonea said:
On Windows 32 it makes it up to the Fastboot process. Enter the key, everything works good, then it gets to the section trying to change the Fastboot and fails each time.
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this is where mine is ATM, reinstalling the drivers provided seemed to fixed the hang up issue, now it tries to go to fastboot twice and then says failed.
still windows 7 64 bit, i have an XP pc too if that works for anyone let me know plz.

jcampos719 said:
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logan4434 said:
this is where mine is ATM, reinstalling the drivers provided seemed to fixed the hang up issue, now it tries to go to fastboot twice and then says failed.
still windows 7 64 bit, i have an XP pc too if that works for anyone let me know plz.
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For now there's only the Linux option. Seems like drivers and .dll problems don't happen there.

When i try it it says (Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!) but nothing happens my phone doesnt do anything. any help would be great.

i failed in windows numerous times, went downstairs to use my linux server and worked first time.

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+1 Please

so if linux is the only way right now, am i able to run a VM using linux to use alpharev?