Rooted my brand new replacement G2 with the visonary method today. Just saw the OTA update for gingerbread and ignored it. Successfully perm rooted. Then I went about to obtain the desire z hboot so I could flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0. I used zedomax's method on youtube where you dont use adb at all.
After successfully installing the desire z hboot I restored my phone from my backup to find that superuser and visionary were gone. I went to my terminal and typed su and it said permission denied. I still have S-OFF so what is going on? I decided to try to root again through visonary and once I permrooted again and rebooted, I could only reboot into clockwork recovery. Ive tried restoring my backups and I cant seem to boot up. Keep getting MD5 is a mismatch! error message. Any help is greatly appreciated
chickawaffles26 said:
Rooted my brand new replacement G2 with the visonary method today. Just saw the OTA update for gingerbread and ignored it. Successfully perm rooted. Then I went about to obtain the desire z hboot so I could flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0. I used zedomax's method on youtube where you dont use adb at all.
After successfully installing the desire z hboot I restored my phone from my backup to find that superuser and visionary were gone. I went to my terminal and typed su and it said permission denied. I still have S-OFF so what is going on? I decided to try to root again through visonary and once I permrooted again and rebooted, I could only reboot into clockwork recovery. Ive tried restoring my backups and I cant seem to boot up. Keep getting MD5 is a mismatch! error message. Any help is greatly appreciated
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Visionary is not a safe method to use to permanently root the Vision. There are warnings and stickies all over about this... you might want to check them out. Perhaps there are some solutions in these threads... discovered by users in your same situation... Have you tried the unroot option in Visionary?
Ideally, you can start over completely and use a clean method. If you're still on 2.2 the best bet is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928160
chickawaffles26 said:
Rooted my brand new replacement G2 with the visonary method today. Just saw the OTA update for gingerbread and ignored it. Successfully perm rooted. Then I went about to obtain the desire z hboot so I could flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0. I used zedomax's method on youtube where you dont use adb at all.
After successfully installing the desire z hboot I restored my phone from my backup to find that superuser and visionary were gone. I went to my terminal and typed su and it said permission denied. I still have S-OFF so what is going on? I decided to try to root again through visonary and once I permrooted again and rebooted, I could only reboot into clockwork recovery. Ive tried restoring my backups and I cant seem to boot up. Keep getting MD5 is a mismatch! error message. Any help is greatly appreciated
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Rooted Evo 2.2 via UnrEVOked 3.21 stock everything. I can't get this to install. I emailed the dev and he told me that I need to use UnrEVOked Forever because 3.21 doesn't have NAND unlocked. According to the UnrEVOked website that is not true. 3.21 does have Nand unlocked.
Do any of you guys have any idea on how I can get this stupid app installed?
Titanium installed a version of it but I think that only Titanium can access it.
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Rooted Evo 2.2 via UnrEVOked 3.21 stock everything. I can't get this to install. I emailed the dev and he told me that I need to use UnrEVOked Forever because 3.21 doesn't have NAND unlocked. According to the UnrEVOked website that is not true. 3.21 does have Nand unlocked.
Do any of you guys have any idea on how I can get this stupid app installed?
Titanium installed a version of it but I think that only Titanium can access it.
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If Titanium installed busybox try going to a sheel then type in busybox. If you get a display with a command listing then type in busybox --install /system that should install busybox so you can use the full command set.
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If Titanium installed busybox try going to a sheel then type in busybox. If you get a display with a command listing then type in busybox --install /system that should install busybox so you can use the full command set.
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What is a sheel? Is this some kind of adb thing? Can you explain it to me step by step like I have down syndrome please.
i have an older version of busybox (1.16.2) and while trying to install 1.17.1 the installer is telling me that installation failed because 1) the device is not nand unlocked or 2) app was unable to remount.
my phone has been nand-unlocked for months. i've even installed this and other busybox versions prior to trying now on this rom. can flashing a new rom (MetroDroid) change my nand-unlock status? (i dont think so)...
Max I got the same exact message from BusyBox. When I emailed the dev he told me that 3.21 does not have Nand unlocked, which does not appear to be true. I have stock everything...IDK wtf is going on with this app. It really blows!
I have titanium backup installed with the busybox version from tib. Downloaded the bbox installer from the market and installed ver. 1.17 just fine.
Rooted with unrevoked forever for s-off and regaw's root method and currently running rooted 3.29.
Thought i would get an error like you guys but install was without a hitch.
You can find out if you are NAND unlocked by turning your phone off and then turning it back on while holding the volume down button. If you see S=OFF then you are unlocked. Also make sure that nothing is using busy box or root and try killing any unnecessary apps with a task killer. You can't change it if something is using it.
Haus: if S is on what Rico have to do? can I change it from that boot screen? Do I have re root?
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Haus: if S is on what Rico have to do? can I change it from that boot screen? Do I have re root?
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You can use unrevoked forever or install the engineering bootloader, if you plan on flashing a lot of ROMs the eng bootloader is probably your best bet. That will give you the fastboot tools and allow you to use Cyanogenmod
****. You were right man. S=On. I thought Unrevoked 3.21 unlocked nand. Did I screw up somewhere? What is this engineer bootloader u mention. I never heard of it. How do I get it? Is it hard to use?
You'll need to flash a custom Recovery and use that to flash either the eng bootloader or unrevoked forever. I believe ROM manager can install the recovery for you or the Amon RA thread in my sig has the instructions to do it manually. A quick search should turn up the eng bootloader, sorry I don't have the link handy though
Edit: Found it Evo eng hBoot .76 - Recovery Flashable
Hi all,
I followed the instructions for permaroot-ing my G2, and everything went smoothly (thanks to everyone who contributed). After obtaining permaroot, I was prompted to install the OTA update. After applying the update I lost root permissions (tried the "su" command on terminal emulator and ADB). I figured I would just follow the steps again for permaroot, but when I run VISIONary for temp root it says "You device is already rooted". Also, I've checked the bootloader, and I still have S-OFF. I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this issue, and if there is a way to regain permaroot. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Yes well if your going to root NEVER apply an OTA. Now that you applied it and you still have s off just flash a custom rom. They all have root. If you want to stay stock and just gain root back use the rage method.
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Thanks
Shortlived,
Thanks for your response. I actually couldn't just flash a custom ROM because I didn't flash ClockworkMod recovery before applying the OTA update. Because I lost root, I couldn't actually flash the recovery after applying OTA. The rage method worked perfectly though and I'm back to root!
You should go ahead and flash a custom recovery (clockworkmod) and make a nandroid back up now since you have root again.
Mistakes happen, but, there's always nandroid.
Hello All, I had my htc ovo rooted with unrevoked 3.22. After flashed it with the 3.70.651.1 rom, I lost root and clockwork recovery; S-OFF still shows though. Now I could not reroot it with unrevoked since it was stuck at "Waiting for root". I also tried to flash it with a rooted 3.70.651.1 rom (renamed to update.zip and booted from stock recovery mode (red triangle and !) without any success. After I pick install from sdcard/update.zip, it said something like "Signature is not verified. Aborted". Should I wait for an updated unrevoked 3.2# or there are some manual rooting using adb shell. Any advices will be much appreciated by me. Thank in advance.
Trung Tran
I'm on same boat but I didn't have it previously rooted was bout to do it and my girl playing with the phone decided to do updated
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
dkd711 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
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That way doesn't work, at least from what I've seen. All over that thread are folks that can't get it working on their 3.70 EVOs
Not sure if this will work with your 3.70 builds....but since you say you still have S-OFF, you have to reload the custom recovery back onto your phone and the superuser app. There are instructions over at the unrevoked forever wiki page here. Under Reinstalling an official recovery page, you can find both Amon_RA and CWM PC36IMG files for download and link for superuser.
Hi all I've rooted my wildfire last year using unrevoked and all went ok... now I've used unrevoked another time to flash an updated clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 instead of my actual 2.5.0.1 almost because I can't charge my phone when it's off because of an old bug in cwm.
After running unrevoked the phone boots but I've lost superuser app and unrevoked itself fails with something like "cannot get root, firmware too new?" and if I run "su" from terminal emulator I got a "permission denied". The cwm is still version 2.5.0.1
Any idea?
I've just installed superuser app from the market and now I've restore the su command functionality...
What happened? and why unrevoked doesn't upgrade recovery image with the one I've specified?
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I've just installed superuser app from the market and now I've restore the su command functionality...
What happened? and why unrevoked doesn't upgrade recovery image with the one I've specified?
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I never would have the idea to re-run unrevoked for flashing a different recovery. Although it's also suggested in The Complete Wildfire Index thread I always would choose one of the three other methods (always done it by the PC49IMG.zip method).
Flashing a recovery isn't just a minor tweak if I'm correct. So I'm not surprised that you lost superuser temporarily. I personally would get a bit nervous to do this by revolutionary - but that's perhaps I'm already an old wise guy
Because I've used unrevoked (when I've rooted my wildfire it was the only way) I'm actually S-ON so the other 3 methods shouldn't work in my case.
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Because I've used unrevoked (when I've rooted my wildfire it was the only way) I'm actually S-ON so the other 3 methods shouldn't work in my case.
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oh well, I've been mistaken, then - yes that's the only method if you're s-on.
I have just bought 2 HTC Desire phones 2nd hand for my wife and myself. One was already rooted, with su access and Nikez-Lente-1.0.1b2-bravo rom running very stably.The other was unlocked but branded and with a stock sense rom (not sure if if was gingerbread or ics).
So I immediately set about "rooting" the stock phone. I used Revolutionary, got s-off and installed sandvold Beta_0.18.2.1. I then installed Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed and expected to get root/su access on the phone. It was only when I tried using a2sd tool that I found I didn't have root/su access. Since then I've put the phone back to RUU and tried using unrevoked to root, but it fails everytime with a message "do you have a newer firmware?" or something like that.
I've put 4EXTRecoveryUpdater touch recovery on, installed Nikez-Lente-1.0.1b2-bravo again, installed su again, still no access. I've tried Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed, still no joy. Nothing seems to be able to put this phone into su/root mode.
And the strange thing is, both phones are on hboot 6.93.1002. So why can I not root the other phone?
I've searched the net for 2 days now and can find nothing to help. All the guides for unrevoked make it look like the simplest thing in the world to do.
What do I need to do?
Check my sig, desire all things root, s-off using revolutionary. Theres a superuser zip file there, try flash that in recovery. Where did u get that superuser zip file?
Sent from my HTC Desire
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Check my sig, desire all things root, s-off using revolutionary. Theres a superuser zip file there, try flash that in recovery. Where did u get that superuser zip file?
Sent from my HTC Desire
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I'm not sure. My head is fried looking at website after website and thread after thread about this. I think it might've been here: androidsu.com/superuser/
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I'm not sure. My head is fried looking at website after website and thread after thread about this. I think it might've been here: androidsu.com/superuser/
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Yh i think with that site u have to download and flash the su binary aswell as the superuser.zip
download & flash this in recovery and u should be rooted
http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip
This is the SU file from the guide in my sig
Sent from my HTC Desire
Thanks for that
Tried that one, still getting "permission denied" in terminal.
Just a thought - should I downgrade the bootloader to an unrevoked compliant one?
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Thanks for that
Tried that one, still getting "permission denied" in terminal.
Just a thought - should I downgrade the bootloader to an unrevoked compliant one?
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Boot recovery, nandroid backup and try flashing a rom that has superuser already installed. Strange that its not working
Sent from my HTC Desire
jmcclue said:
Boot recovery, nandroid backup and try flashing a rom that has superuser already installed. Strange that its not working
Sent from my HTC Desire
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Cheers. Can you suggest a rom that does?