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What is this thread?
This is where steps will be tried to get root on the device
What should be posted?
Steps to try, steps tried and failed, steps that worked
What should not be posted in this thread?
If your post doesn't have anything to do with root then you may ask in general, we will not help get adb set up or anything else, there are thousands of threads all over the interwebs that tell you how to get adb working and this will not be one of them.
So now that we have devices in hand and we have a few devs on-hand as well we can really get into this.
I will update this post later with tried methods and failed(and why) but for now we have some simple rules.
If you want to test, fine but share any and all details
We do not have someone in charge of root as several that are working don't have devices(myself included) and so we may just post steps, if you try the steps be sure to quote the steps tried and post results of each step(errors especially)
Once root is achieved provide pics and what you did so we can replicate and verify
Anything done on the phone is YOUR fault if you think that what you are trying could cause issues and you are uncomfortable doing the steps provided then stop and ask questions.
Standard disclaimers apply, if your phone is broke then fix it, we will try to be helpful if it was caused by our steps but the end result is if you brick it then it's your fault and we will note it as a step not to try again.
Hope this is helpful the rest will be updated below this later when I have computer to work at
Yea I preordered mines so it should be n by the oct 6 day(my brithday )
But yea I want root asap once I get the phone ill be up to trying a few things to help out.
What's mainly needed? A system, boot, and recovery dump?
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what about unrevoked universal root method?
Give me some clockwork. I want the process to be easy like it is for the Vibrant. **** only took 2 seconds to root.
If I do acquire one.. how can I be of help?
The slides method should work. It works on all newer htc android models so far. we'll just have to wait and see really.
WilliamStern said:
Give me some clockwork. I want the process to be easy like it is for the Vibrant. **** only took 2 seconds to root.
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yeah... sorry, that won't happen. but it won't be too difficult. start practicing with adb if y'all are rusty, lol!
sino8r said:
yeah... sorry, that won't happen. but it won't be too difficult. start practicing with adb if y'all are rusty, lol!
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The thing about that is that I own only Macs. Doesn't adb, and odin only work with pc?
I know we won't really see clockwork on the G2, I'm just wishing here. lol
Either way, I just want this to be easy.
odin was for vibrant, adb will run on any OS so long as you know how(put ./ in front and run the command or just make sure that the adb binary is in your path) i plan on trying the adb method tonight, just need a build with root to test with
Hopefully I will be able to test this theory out tomorrow when I receive my device
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The divice in my hand has recovery 3e which means the adb method may not work, we'll have to try a few things, won't have the G2 near a comp for another 8 hours from now
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tubaking182 said:
The divice in my hand has recovery 3e which means the adb method may not work, we'll have to try a few things, won't have the G2 near a comp for another 8 hours from now
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Damn, that's a little discouraging. I was hoping the root method would be quick. Oh well, it will give me some time to play with a vanilla rom.
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When it arrives, get into bootloader by holding volume down, then hit recovery, volume up+power makes text menu appear in recovery
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That's just like the slide, so I'm looking forward to seeing what comes up.
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WilliamStern said:
The thing about that is that I own only Macs. Doesn't adb, and odin only work with pc?
I know we won't really see clockwork on the G2, I'm just wishing here. lol
Either way, I just want this to be easy.
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Heheheh! I was talking about root being as easy as the vibrant. We'll see clockwork recovery for sure on the G2. Eventually...
I wish root could be as easy as the vibrant, hopefully when I get home we can try some ideas and have at it
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tubaking182 said:
I wish root could be as easy as the vibrant, hopefully when I get home we can try some ideas and have at it
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Hey man, thanks for being so helpful, and willing to answer questions. I'm kinda new at all this, so I know who I'll be following around here in G2 world.
Well I only get the phone for 1 day but I will be as helpful as I can be with the phone, and I'll have one at work to toy with. Right now I am trying to get used to the keyboard and how it's set up
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how do the short cut keys work? programmed? and what can they be programmed to do?
I've got one in hand with adb access but no root. Unless I'm doing it wrong, UniversalAndRoot, Unrevoked, and "fastboot oem unlock" all don't work. Other ideas?
...But with a challenge.
I've broken my Desire Z's screen, and I need to revert to complete stock. I heard that the RUU's do jack **** to the su.apk and S-OFF.
How would I go about removing su.apk, and turning S-OFF on, without the screen after RUU.
I'm pretty much boned, aren't I?
not even...i read posts like this all the time..theres instructions here somewhere.
sorry no url
pimped out g2
If there is now way to turn screen on there's a good chance they won't look much further into it and just replace.
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here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Returning_to_Stock
Hello everyone, I had emailed HTC yesterday about downgrading my Desire back to 2.2. and this is what they said...
I understand you installed the Gingerbread build on our developer portal and would like to flash back to 2.2 Froyo. I understand how important it is for your phone to function properly and I will be happy to assist. The Gingerbread build that was posted was not intended for North American users unless they only needed the device to test applications they were writing. We do not have a method for an end user to flash back to 2.2 at home, however if you can reply with the device serial number located on the back of the phone after you remove the back cover and the battery and the name of your cellular provider I can find out if you are able to send the phone into HTC to be re-flashed.
So in other words unless we find a way to unlock the bootloader we have to send it in to HTC which kinda sucks.
Let me know what you think!
There are people in other threads that have been given the answer fron htc support that the upcoming boot loader unlocker will unlock ALL htc phones.
Keep an eye at this page: http://htcdev.com/devcenter
gerhard_wa said:
There are people in other threads that have been given the answer fron htc support that the upcoming boot loader unlocker will unlock ALL htc phones.
Keep an eye at this page: http://htcdev.com/devcenter
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If you use their online unlocking tool when it comes into use, then you fail.
Swyped...
Meaple said:
If you use their online unlocking tool when it comes into use, then you fail.
Swyped...
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Why do you say that?
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gerhard_wa said:
There are people in other threads that have been given the answer fron htc support that the upcoming boot loader unlocker will unlock ALL htc phones.
Keep an eye at this page: http://htcdev.com/devcenter
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Yeah I know that but thank you I just wanted to show what they told me lol
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ok, sure we agree that htc relesed gb as dev, and sure a lot of us thougt someone will crack the hboot soon. But crap this is a bad build...
The call function is often "hanging" a while after finising a call, after installing some of my regular apps, gb is terrible slow, the sence clock sometimes stops in time, and i could go on...
I have not read all of the posts here since the dev release of gb, but i for one is "not realy happy" with the dev gb, and would sure as hell give good money for going back to what i had before "upgrading" to gb.
Ok, I got that of my chest... someone says htc dealers can downgrade to froyo. Does anyone know of someone that can do that in Bergen, Norway?
Well, luckily for me, I do not experience any of the issues described here. From my point of view the GB update was a success.
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luckily for me too
GB works excellent for me and i have found no issues, i love it alot, only a root will be amazing to remove some main apps like gmail and maps
but i still don't know what is the Force to SD function and where to find it
Well, luckily for me, I do not experience any of the issues described here. From my point of view the GB update was a success.
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Yes I agree I don't mind it but I hard the fact that I can't unlock the bootloader lol
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beyarfaj2004 said:
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but i still don't know what is the Force to SD function and where to find it
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Have you tried this: Move apps to SD - Unrooted Froyo Guide. Noobs Guide (from the Desire Q&A forum) ? It worked for me when I was on Stock 2.2, so it might help you too. I can't try it now, as I am already rooted and using a custom rom.
As the title suggests, i'd like to know where the configuration file(s?) for the trackpad is located (if there is any).
i have a rooted desire z, running virtuous unity 2.39.0. and i'm loving it.
Except for the trackpad speed. i know for sure that it was alot faster on stock, and back then i litterally loved it. now i can hardly use it because it's so slow.
i've already looked in alot of system folders all across my phone, including build.prop and /sys/blablabla and /system/blablabla directories. but none of the files of which i checked seemed to have anything to do with the trackpad.
can i incorporate it in build.prop?
or do i have to make my own configuration files?
any help is greatly appreciated !
Please please post in this thread if you find it. I have been wanting to make the trackpad sensitivity higher since I rooted as well.
ChristianFS1 said:
As the title suggests, i'd like to know where the configuration file(s?) for the trackpad is located (if there is any).
i have a rooted desire z, running virtuous unity 2.39.0. and i'm loving it.
Except for the trackpad speed. i know for sure that it was alot faster on stock, and back then i litterally loved it. now i can hardly use it because it's so slow.
i've already looked in alot of system folders all across my phone, including build.prop and /sys/blablabla and /system/blablabla directories. but none of the files of which i checked seemed to have anything to do with the trackpad.
can i incorporate it in build.prop?
or do i have to make my own configuration files?
any help is greatly appreciated !
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Thank you for your reply, Nice to know that other people have the same opinions as myself
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Is there really not anybody who can come with some help or anything? I've seen a poll about it, there were somewhere around 40 people who wanted this too, so I know there would be a whole lot of people who would use it! ;D
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Since no-one has tracked this down before, I am guessing the configuration is within the trackpad driver itself ? Just a guess.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
steviewevie said:
Since no-one has tracked this down before, I am guessing the configuration is within the trackpad driver itself ? Just a guess.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
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just asking, where are the hardware drivers located?
is it in /system/lib or /sys/lib, or perhaps even somewhere else?
and what would the driver be called?
i figured it has to have a .so extension, am i right?
And merry christmas!
Can someone PLEASE post some actual, detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to flash a ROM on the DHD?
All I ever seem to read are "instructions" that don't tell me how to do some or most or even all of the steps it wants me to do.
For example, a lot of instructions tell me to "do a NANDroid backup" or "wipe data" or "flash the rom" and then proceed to not tell me how to do any of that. The authors mostly assume that the reader knows how to do all the steps. Can you not be that guy and actually give us a step-by-step set of instructions and don't leave anything out? In plain English please.
Those are all options in recovery. The problem with a precise step-by-step is that every recovery has those options in different places. I would recommend that you do what the rest of us did: poke around whichever recovery you have installed; they're all there somewhere in the menus. It shouldn't take long, and you'll soon figure everything out.
I believe that the majority of the guides are good and have had a lot of work put into them, they are all written to do a technical thing and as such, this is where you or any other user is required to do some work too, by searching, (one of the xda rules btw) reading and learning the things needed to mess around with your phone.
I personally was reading up the threads on xda developers for 3 months or more, every day, before even contemplating touching my phone, or even posting anything on xda developers!
With all due respect, at the end of the day you are the one that is going to be messing with your phone, modifying it, flashing it and all the things that go with it, I doubt any one from xda is going to come over to your place, look over your shoulder and tell you step by step what to do?
I also think it's quite a bit of an insult to those people who have already done the hard work and spent their personal time learning and writing those guides to help every one, who may not be not quite as technically minded to do stuff.
Rant over
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ranger4740 said:
I believe that the majority of the guides are good and have had a lot of work put into them, they are all written to do a technical thing and as such, this is where you or any other user is required to do some work too, by searching, (one of the xda rules btw) reading and learning the things needed to mess around with your phone.
I personally was reading up the threads on xda developers for 3 months or more, every day, before even contemplating touching my phone, or even posting anything on xda developers!
With all due respect, at the end of the day you are the one that is going to be messing with your phone, modifying it, flashing it and all the things that go with it, I doubt any one from xda is going to come over to your place, look over your shoulder and tell you step by step what to do?
I also think it's quite a bit of an insult to those people who have already done the hard work and spent their personal time learning and writing those guides to help every one, who may not be not quite as technically minded to do stuff.
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The reason I asked this question here was that if I ask for this any thread that is for a specific ROM for a specific phone, I get the what I described above: A either a long general "guide" that doesn't tell me how to do what I need to do on the phone I want to do it on, or a "guide" that assumes I know how to do each step in the process.
Look, I don't have time to devote hours and hours and hours to studying all this. If you do, that's great but I do not. If flashing the ROM is as simple as it is made out to be, why can't somebody make a youtube video that spells it out in plain English? It would be a lot clearer and a lot easier to understand. How hard would it be to make a simple you-tube video that walks the user through all the steps?
I would like to ask a question..
Currently
Desire HD.. shipped stock with Froyo
Currently latest bootloader (.29 if i remember right)
HTC Dev Unlock
JellyTime ROM
but GPS dont work due to radio (dont show even notification icon)
Fix is to flash radio.. but I dont have a S-OFF.. (not Radio or even ENG S OFF)
Would like to ask.. what to do?
Everything i want is quick steps.. like.. go back to stock rooted rom.. do with aahk unlock (S OFF Mainly!) and then flash radio and restore Jelly Time rom?
BlackRainX said:
I would like to ask a question..
Currently
Desire HD.. shipped stock with Froyo
Currently latest bootloader (.29 if i remember right)
HTC Dev Unlock
JellyTime ROM
but GPS dont work due to radio (dont show even notification icon)
Fix is to flash radio.. but I dont have a S-OFF.. (not Radio or even ENG S OFF)
Would like to ask.. what to do?
Everything i want is quick steps.. like.. go back to stock rooted rom.. do with aahk unlock (S OFF Mainly!) and then flash radio and restore Jelly Time rom?
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If GPS was working on stock rom, then radio is not the issue. Might be the set up...have you check the A-GPS fix??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1252011
I will send you my radio version right? it worked fine on stock rom.. (2.3.5 Sense 3.0 RADIO: 12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M - HTC 3.12.405.1 WWE (Stock ROM)
S_Sarge said:
Look, I don't have time to devote hours and hours and hours to studying all this. If you do, that's great but I do not. If flashing the ROM is as simple as it is made out to be, why can't somebody make a youtube video that spells it out in plain English? It would be a lot clearer and a lot easier to understand. How hard would it be to make a simple you-tube video that walks the user through all the steps?
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Probably not super hard, but since no one has posted one, and many people have figured it out themselves with the available resources, I can only assume two things.
1. People find their own time, which they would spend making your custom single-use video, as precious as you find your own time, which you refuse to spend doing a little research. Since it is you who wants to mess with your phone, if you want to mess with it, that time expenditure is on you.
2. Since others have figured it out themselves with the resources available, the research isn't hard and most certainly will not take hours and hours (unless you are not a native English speaker, which it looks like you are).
Note that like I already said, such instructions are recovery-dependent anyway.
S_Sarge said:
The reason I asked this question here was that if I ask for this any thread that is for a specific ROM for a specific phone, I get the what I described above: A either a long general "guide" that doesn't tell me how to do what I need to do on the phone I want to do it on, or a "guide" that assumes I know how to do each step in the process.
Look, I don't have time to devote hours and hours and hours to studying all this. If you do, that's great but I do not. If flashing the ROM is as simple as it is made out to be, why can't somebody make a youtube video that spells it out in plain English? It would be a lot clearer and a lot easier to understand. How hard would it be to make a simple you-tube video that walks the user through all the steps?
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Steps to follow are usually detailed in the each rom's thread....there are no secrets about how to do that, boot in recovery and do all the wipes. You in fact have lots of tutorials in you tube, so you are not right about saying that no one has done that...I actually did one and so have many others...instead of demanding people to do things easier for you, you can do a google search and you will find lots of stuff.
http://goo.gl/sfR7W
but take into consideration that a tutorial might not be precise in all matters and you can miss something for not reading. The starter guide I wrote has 8 pages and might take you to read about 15 minutes, don't you think that is worth to "waste" 15 minutes instead of risking your device?
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bananagranola said:
...since no one has posted one
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glevitan said:
http://goo.gl/sfR7W
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Eating my words.
bananagranola said:
Eating my words.
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lol, that is not posted here. And you know what XDA dev's think about video tutorials...but they do exist.
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A short memo to the OP: There are dozens of tutorials for flashing roms here. And thousands of users managed to flash with them. If you (as you say) don't have the time to look and read, why should anybody waste his time to make you another one? To support your lazyness? You were already warned by another moderator to show some respect and invest some time to understand.
If you really don't have the time to read and learn, then the best solution might be: you stay on stock rom :laugh:. You are warned. We will not accept that attitude another time.
Cheers