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I owe much credit to toastcfh, none of this would be possibly without his work on originally rooting the EVO.
Getting Root & Recovery Mode
(My version, dumbed down even more)
You have three options with rooting:
1) Toasts Rooted ROM - Missing Apps in Market
2) Rooted Stock ROM - No 4G Support
3) Unrevoked Root Patch - No system access in recovery (can't remove sprint apps, etc)
To get a rooted stock ROM, you have to start with Toasts, instructions below; you can find details after.
If you want the Unrevoked Root patch, install a file browser on your EVO and install this.
1. Copy this to the root folder of the SD card, you can do this by syncing the Evo as a disc and just copying in windows.
2. Shut off the Evo, and hold the "volume down" button while powering it on until you see a white screen. Every question it asks, just answer yes. DO NOT UNPLUG, let it finish at all costs, no matter how long it takes.
3. Rename the file you copied to the SD card. (to avoid accidental re-flash and save it for later)
4. Download this and unzip to anywhere of you liking on your desktop. Run the setup, if it asks to accept and install a bunch of stuff, hit cancel, you wont be needing most of it. Select available packages and it will show a repository url, the actual url is irrelevant and will be google's be default...we want to expand the list and select SDK Platform 2.1. Accept an install the selection.
What you just did is installed the Android SDK which includes adb, a shell connector for your phone that we need to operate in recovery mode.
5. Hold the Windows key and press "R", type CMD in the run box. (Run the task with Administrative privileges if there is an option)
Type "cd " in the CMD window, do not forget the trailing space, it is important and DO NOT HIT ENTER yet.
Now, with that CMD windows open, go to the folder you installed the android sdk. There will be a "tools" folder, drag the tools folder into the cmd window.
Press enter, this will set your working directory to the tools folder.
6. If you have not installed drivers for your Evo, there is a folder that comes of the sd card called "HTC-Sync", run the setup in there and it will install sufficient drivers automatically.
After drivers are setup sync the phone using the HTC Sync mode, this will ensure we can control the phone using adb.
Go to your CMD window and type "adb reboot recovery", you will see your phone reboot...it will show a red warning icon on the screen afterwards, this is perfectly normal and good to see such.
7. Your phone should not be in recovery mode, but the filesystem will be offline. Download this to setup the shell for us before we can mount the filesystem. Run "recovery-windows.bat", if you are using Vista or Win7, make to sure right click the file and "Run as Administrator"...you will see another CMD window popup and do some work, just leave it open. You should now have the shell setup in Recovery Mode on your Evo.
8. Go back to your original CMD window we setup, type "adb shell" and hit enter, this will set all commands to work right on the phone. You should see a line with just "#", that is what we want.
Now type "mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system" and hit enter.
You should now have your Evo in recovery mode with a shell setup and filesystem mounted. This is where we can begin making changes.
Now that this has all been setup, you may want to go back after making some changes.
Repeat steps 5-8 to re-enter recovery mode with the filesystem mounted.
If you want to continue and do the stock update, check here.
Basically, copy that file to the SD and do steps 5-7.
Then use the onscreen (on the EVO Recovery Mode) to "Flash from ZIP" and select the rooted stock rom update.
WARNING: You must clear user data if the update creates issue, you will know right away.
so this is a third way of rooting, if i used a different way how do i get rid of it and use yours, i'm so tired and confused.
Post Removed to maintain consistancy, see 1st post in thread.
root rom and activesync?
I'm a complete noob here but: By using this method do I still retain the ability to run ActiveSync/Exchange support? (Didn't think this was in the SDK Platform 2.1)
What about Sense?
What the crap is up with the title of this thread? How us this a tweak or an optimization?
Good noob friendly guide, kinda tldr, but what I did readlooked good!
Change ur title
Neotelos_com;
[B said:
You have two options with rooting:
1) Toasts Rooted ROM - Missing Apps in Market
2) Rooted Stock ROM - No 4G Support[/B]
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Any thought about the third option (i.e. unrevoked, new sticky, apk??) will it do the same things? i read users aren't losing full market, 4g etc.? Someone much smarter than me please weigh in.
adeyo said:
Any thought about the third option (i.e. unrevoked, new sticky, apk??) will it do the same things? i read users aren't losing full market, 4g etc.? Someone much smarter than me please weigh in.
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Yes, adding in right now...just tested and it works well.
I need to check if it allows things to be changed in recovery mode (which is important for removing the Sprint bloatware)
johnsongrantr said:
What the crap is up with the title of this thread? How us this a tweak or an optimization?
Change ur title
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I have plans for adding in tweaks, which will be delayed a bit...
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Neotelos_com said:
Yes, adding in right now...just tested and it works well.
I need to check if it allows things to be changed in recovery mode (which is important for removing the Sprint bloatware)
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If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
Is something different on the Evo that im missing?
can you not do this
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
Then remove the apps like so
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
Not saying this will all work.. But if you have root, shouldnt this work to remove sprint apps.
Jus10o said:
If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
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You can make changes like that but it will not actually save to the NAND.
So...you can remove, but it will come back after reboot.
Neotelos_com said:
You can make changes like that but it will not actually save to the NAND.
So...you can remove, but it will come back after reboot.
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Well thats all kinds of dumb..
I give it a week and there will be something better working.
Nice write up. The only problem is, I don't have the sync software on my sd card because the best buy employee knew about the evo's sd card problem and formatted it, erasing everything on the card. I checked htc's site and they had the drivers for download, but it keeps giving me an error saying it's not compatible. I'm using windows 7 64bit. Any ideas guys?
Jus10o said:
If you have root at all, and you have "rw" permissions for "system". You should be able to remove sprint apps when the phone is booted, assuming you dont have root while in recovery.
Is something different on the Evo that im missing?
can you not do this
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
Then remove the apps like so
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
Not saying this will all work.. But if you have root, shouldnt this work to remove sprint apps.
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you CAN remove apps like that, using toast's custom recovery. if you do your shell, and mount, in recovery, using adb, you can go to /system/app and rm whatever you want (be careful not to remove anything important, probably wise to pull whatever first, in case you need to push it back)
i had problems when i did an rm on a file, but that is because apparently i forgot to rm it's info in /data/data too. word to the wise
HTC Sync Torrent
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5609530
PLEASE SEED AFTER DOWNLOAD!
New android user here!
So to me it seems like all three have something they're not able to do. Seems best to wait for a root release that your able to take full advantage of, right?
I'm a former WM flasher , I need to learn android still. I want the free hot spot/tethering, more battery life as I need 2 batteries to make it through the day -.- (I kill apps constantly, 4g turned on rarely,ect, ect)
Any feedback is appreciated,
Sean
can someone point me in the right direction to do this using a mac not new to android just the mac os i did pretty much everything but im stuck on the htc sync part HELPPP PLZ thanks
kingcliff00 said:
can someone point me in the right direction to do this using a mac not new to android just the mac os i did pretty much everything but im stuck on the htc sync part HELPPP PLZ thanks
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Try going to Settings -> Applications on the evo and enable usb debugging...if that5 gives you adb access that's all you need
confirmed working with unrevoked root method. It can tether 3G or 4G, depends on how you connected to the Sprint network. 3G was 0.80Mbps DL, 4G was 2.63Mbps DL.
Before using unrevoked root method, I had applied the sdcard patch already. so it doesn't matter if you applied the sdcard patch or not (OTA updated).
You really shouldn't kill tasks. Just cycle the battery a couple of times and turn your antennas off and on when u need them. Especially if u are in spotty 3g coverage. There already one or two official write ups that say task killing is bad I use to do it and got forceloses and errors all the time. Its not about how many tasks you have running I.e. memory, items about cpu and antenna signal that kills you're battery I'll find the link if I can. My battery life is pretty good and I'm a heavy user.
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i cannot get recovery bat file to work. I am at the red exclamation point screen on my evo and i run the bat file as amdmin. it pops up for a second then closes and nothing happens.
Edit: NVM I figured it out. on to the next step.
Hopefully we get an lg optimus v section. But here goes something for starters.
These different posts will contain everything you need for now (i hope who am I kidding) Any ways here is my latest deodexed rom.
Features:
Completly de-odexed
new bootanimation
no virgin mobile apps
custom bootimage
new keylayout ( camera button opens the camera not focus, side voice control is power button, changed all the buttons to stop unlocking the screen except for the menu button)
Stagefright enabled
I'm preparing some final things but I wanted to get this going.
Download here
How to root the lg optimus v use one click root more coming soon
How to get into diag mode coming soon
How to install a custom recovery more coming soon
download here
Stock Rom with su and custom bootimage only
Download here
How to remove apps using adb
To me the best and free way to remove apps from your phone is via adb. Hopefully you have some familiarity with adb if not you should be good after reading this.
First open a command prompt and type
Code:
adb remount
this will allow you to do what we need to do if you have errors then you need flash one of the roms I provided.
then type
Code:
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
this opens adb shell commands then opens the system directory and shows you whats in it. If you are using the deodexed rom you will have nothing but .apk files in there. But if you use the stock rom then you will have .apk and .odex files in there.
look through there and figure out what apks you want to delete and then type
Code:
rm whatever.*
replace whatever with the app you want to remove
for instance
Code:
rm googlevoice.*
then type
Code:
cd ..
cd ..
cd /data/data
pm uninstall com.googlevoice
this part here changes your directory to data/data and then it completes the uninstall. You may have to guess what the name is in data/data but usually it isn't that hard. Also you can't pm uninstall apps from data/data unless they have been removed from /system/app so don't be worried about removing the wrong thing.
check your phone and you should be good to go
I'm going to get one this week. Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!
Are there any ROM & kernel pack with ext4 support?
r0bot said:
Are there any ROM & kernel pack with ext4 support?
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Xiona is what I use
Xiona works really good, there are some forums with a stock VM rom with Xiona in it.
teki9 said:
Xiona is what I use
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So Xiona has ext4 support?
Emergenscene said:
Xiona works really good, there are some forums with a stock VM rom with Xiona in it.
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What ROMs support ext4 also?
not to bring up a dead threaad....but the optimus v really needs a home here at xda.
i just rooted my first. i tried to use a windows program called "romtools" found on the interwebz. this didnt work, though. so...after a little more searching...i found this out. maybe the opt can put this up in first post?
easiest way to root and install super user: run super one click root to obtain adb shell root. then...run z4root. neither of these two methods work on their own but if you do in that order...you will have root and super user installed. from there, you can flash a recovery using android terminal emulator...if your old school like that. i did.
after that you can flash the stock virgin with Xionia kernel and bloatware removed. get setcpu..overclock it. whatever. door is open.
hope this helps! trying to get some thank you points on the board.
back again to try to keep this thread a little bit up to date til SOME1 NOTICES THAT THIS PHONE EXISTS.
for those having the "Cell standby" battery bug....
whats that? go to setting>about phone > battery usage> if cell standby is at anywhere near 50% or over...you have this bug. antenna constantly scans even with a connection...
plugg phone into charger. toggle airplane mode. unplugg. this will clear your battery stats and will properly connect you. check your setting to see if your usage goes down.
there also seems to be a problem wil gallery. the app opens but displays nothing. no albums or anythinng. its like it cant read the sdcard. only thing i can say to do is install a 3rd party pic viewer and trash 3d gallery.
hope this helps you guys.
Awesome, thanks for this. I currently have CM7 on my Optimus V, but for some reason I can't use any adb commands with it. I can with this. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post it, but I'm still a new member. Anyone know a way to get adb working?
hey did you guys ever figure out diag mode for the Optimus V? its not like the the other Optimus devices and ive tried every key combo my little brain could come up with....im trying 2 connect it 2 QPST or CDMA..
hey guys got desire s with S-ON and we can root temp but mem card doesnt show or work properly although if i go to storage it shows the mem card there and shows apps on it. The only time i get access to the mem card is if i reboot.
Im guessin alot of users wouldnt mind temp root as i do reboot my phone as its always on but at moment im having to charge battery twice 1 in middle of day and overnight. Lol need setcpu to slow cpu down even when screens off kills the battery.
So heres the question lol sorry for the long essay but anyone got an idea or can fix the mem card problem. thanks for reaidng guys
lets hope we can root our phones
chwads2k8 said:
hey guys got desire s with S-ON and we can root temp but mem card doesnt show or work properly although if i go to storage it shows the mem card there and shows apps on it. The only time i get access to the mem card is if i reboot.
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*?* how do you get temp root?
When you're temp root it should be possible to download ROMmanager, flash recovery and than flash loveboatcaptains ROM and than you would have permanent root...
My DesireS works for 48 hours without charging. Standby is great - you should check which app drains your battery so fast..
anyone tested this?
k am on to it.....ghna try now
btw from my previous post i realised for some strange reason every time i temp root sometimes astro and other programs work ok except music and other stuff
but n64 emu and from astro i can access mem card and play music or run a rom wierd hun then other times jus get force closes lol
yh but gna try this now
tried it but wont let me use the option without mounting the sd card first which wont mount properly
thing is rom manager the stupid thing lol is trying to download to memory card if i could get it to download to phone memory it should do it
lol heres a funny one.....when u leave n64 emu runnin in background and then run gingerbreak in roots and apps get perm but when i run emulator the sd card starts workin and superuser crashes lol
chwads2k8 said:
tried it but wont let me use the option without mounting the sd card first which wont mount properly
thing is rom manager the stupid thing lol is trying to download to memory card if i could get it to download to phone memory it should do it
lol heres a funny one.....when u leave n64 emu runnin in background and then run gingerbreak in roots and apps get perm but when i run emulator the sd card starts workin and superuser crashes lol
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tried mount via adb?
Or does root explorer work when temp rooted? (should also be able to r/w system and mount /sdcard)
I am not able to temp root my DS.. are you using gingerbreak 1.2?
after he finish to tray to root my device, is stuck, and i have to reboot taking out the battery...
For the card problem... have someone tray to take out and reputing in the SD? (in the meanwhile you have to keep the battery in)
yes mate if u disable fastboot and jus click root (yes i have 1.2) and dont touch anythin for about 5 mins itl reboot itself and ul have root but only temp. Yh i helg the battery and unmounted it took it out and put it bk in...did this whilst on S AND PHONE STORAGE SCreen on there it says unnavailable
disable fastboot! i miss that! thanks!
some help
I am kinda noob here for android. I have an desire S with S-ON and it seems u were able to achieve temp root using gingerbreak1.2, i tried same with fast boot off and usb debug on. But when i root it, it wont restart and after a manual restart i am not seeing superuser installed and no issues with SD card also. So do you have any idea what am i doing wrong or is it total luck!! to get a temp root?
jus to confirm ur using the apk
in between attempts restart phone.
for me 1.1 and 1.2 work
im on 2.3.3 official 1.28.401.1
when u click root it should say rooting.. etc
and if u leave it running for a few mins 5-10 jus let it run it should say something like not sure what happened there. leave it for a few mins...
at this point bring down the notification bar jus to see if phone has crashed if it has wait for it to restart dont pull battery and if the bar comes down leave it bk and click ok in gingerbreak and u shud have superuser and temp root
have a go mate if not im gna make a video of it and uploading so people can see and maybe have ideas on how to solve it x
Temp Root SUCCESS!!
chwads2k8 said:
jus to confirm ur using the apk
in between attempts restart phone.
for me 1.1 and 1.2 work
im on 2.3.3 official 1.28.401.1
when u click root it should say rooting.. etc
and if u leave it running for a few mins 5-10 jus let it run it should say something like not sure what happened there. leave it for a few mins...
at this point bring down the notification bar jus to see if phone has crashed if it has wait for it to restart dont pull battery and if the bar comes down leave it bk and click ok in gingerbreak and u shud have superuser and temp root
have a go mate if not im gna make a video of it and uploading so people can see and maybe have ideas on how to solve it x
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Thanks for answering the query chwads2k8, and it worked!!! the missing link was that i had restarted without first checking for root.
So key is to check if the root is obtained before restarting.
So for the records i have followed these steps and i am running
stock android 2.3.3
Build 1.31.720.2
1. Copied v1.2 apk in a fresh sd card and installed it to phone.
2. ran the tool and clicked root
3. Message saying "Not sure what happened here..." came within like 30sec of clicking root.
4. waited for another 5-6 mins with the message on screen no crash no restart on the device.
5. Clicked Ok on the message and checked if i have a root(without a restart): SUCCESS!!!
Thanks,
I managed to get temp root like the post above, but when I try pushing the new htclockscreen from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056652
to /system/app/htlockscreen.aspk I get a permission denied error
robot1000 said:
I managed to get temp root like the post above, but when I try pushing the new htclockscreen from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056652
to /system/app/htlockscreen.aspk I get a permission denied error
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chmod it to give urslf permission for write on the path
what i did was
chmod 777 /system/app
thats good ! any of you managed to get sd card working or know how to force it to mount via adb
lets hope someone can work this out
Deal breaker
I found out that i am really a noob I was thinking a temp root would be enough for me to modify some files and they will be saved Yup it was but every time I reboot my phone all the changes are gone... Have learnt it a hard way... Seems i need to wait till a S-OFF way arrives for Desire S
But still learnt lot of things
PS. if someone want google navigation (NON US) u cud probably use temp root to install hacked version of navigation
chwads2k8 said:
thats good ! any of you managed to get sd card working or know how to force it to mount via adb
lets hope someone can work this out
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SD card works for me, but getting lot of "force close" almost unusable... Gets fine after a reboot
mohitsapru said:
chmod it to give urslf permission for write on the path
what i did was
chmod 777 /system/app
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Just tried that, but got the error:
Unable to chmod /system/app: Operation not permitted
Any other ideas?
robot1000 said:
Just tried that, but got the error:
Unable to chmod /system/app: Operation not permitted
Any other ideas?
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I hope u did all this from shell and with su
in case u did not then
1. Go to shell "adb shell"
2. type "su" prompt shud change to "#" from "$"
3. now try chmod
mohitsapru said:
I hope u did all this from shell and with su
in case u did not then
1. Go to shell "adb shell"
2. type "su" prompt shud change to "#" from "$"
3. now try chmod
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I'm ADB'ing in CMD from my PC connected via USB
I've just typed in 'adb shell' and got '$'
then i typed in 'su', but got 'permission denied'
EDIT
Yeh got it to work (I had to allow superuser permission)
Cheers
Hello
Have unlocked the phone and installed custom android OS a while ago, but then all of a sudden i do not have root access anymore, even tryed to reinstall the phone. Though i do have a bad feeling about it wasn't needed
My problems is that im unable to give programs root access, it looks like the phone is not rooted acording to the programs.
Also if i try the following:
adb shell
su
then i get "permission denied"
Can't seem to figure out where my flaw is. Even tryed to
Anyone got an idea to what the problem might be? Have looked through the nexus s forum for clues but no luck.
/Fonain
fonain said:
Hello
Have unlocked the phone and installed custom android OS a while ago, but then all of a sudden i do not have root access anymore, even tryed to reinstall the phone. Though i do have a bad feeling about it wasn't needed
My problems is that im unable to give programs root access, it looks like the phone is not rooted acording to the programs.
Also if i try the following:
adb shell
su
then i get "permission denied"
Can't seem to figure out where my flaw is. Even tryed to
Anyone got an idea to what the problem might be? Have looked through the nexus s forum for clues but no luck.
/Fonain
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Most likely the permissions on the su binary are f'd up (assuming it's present). The easiest fix is just to reflash the su binary (mount /system first) through CWM.
do you by any chance have a guide to do that? or a link to one?
fonain said:
do you by any chance have a guide to do that? or a link to one?
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There are several rooting guides here if you do not have CWM installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067813
They will go over quite a few things. However, if you are unlocked and have fastboot set up it's as simple as downloading the recovery image, and then using fastboot to flash the recovery (fastboot flash recovery recovery.image.name.img)
Once CWM is installed boot into recovery and flash the su binary here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682828
well the funny thing is that i already have 2.3.6.1 installed, but i still dont have su rights.
When i try to follow the buttom guide where to install superuser. where it states that i should write "adb remount". Then i get the message back where it says "Operation not allowed", or when i type su i get the message "permission denied".
I seriously don't understand what i have done wrong :S
/Fonain
krohnjw said:
Most likely the permissions on the su binary are f'd up (assuming it's present). The easiest fix is just to reflash the su binary (mount /system first) through CWM.
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Thanks for this, solved my issue
thanks figured it out
/Fonain
Sorry to bring back an old topic, but Ive petty much done everything and still the SU no permission no root access for everything occurs. NO TIT backup, no rommanager, no nothing T_T, why???
try chmod the folder/file or using sudo
james7132 said:
try chmod the folder/file or using sudo
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Can you elaborate please. Whats chmod or sudo and how do I go about doing them?
Alright so looks like I did something completely stupid and now my phone won't finish the boot process. I was looking at some remappings for the recent key to the menu option and from a post in the development section I found a thread in the International One X development forum that had re-odexed files so that the recent key stayed as the recent key and holding the home button became the menu key. Since they were re-odexed and I had root access I figured I would just manually replace them on my phone with Root Explorer...bad idea. The files were:
System/Framework/android.policy.odex
System/Usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl
After I moved them and reset permissions I rebooted my phone and now it goes through the first couple of boot animations but gets stuck on screen that displays beats audio at the bottom.
I really need to know what to do to fix this. When I plug my phone into my computer it recognizes it as a new \drive, but I don't have access to any of it (still says I need to mount). I also have the android SDk and adb installed if thats of any help. I would really like to not lose any data so hopefully thats possible.
Please help me with this if you have any knowledge of what to do.
Just one little quick update. Even though my computer won't let me access my One X as a drive, when I use command prompt and adb to check for adb devices my One X is listed.
Run the at&t ruu exe file, located in the Dev section.
tanman21 said:
Run the at&t ruu exe file, located in the Dev section.
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Alright I'm downloading that now.
In the meantime, how do I get root access with adb/give it permission to overwrite read only files? I pulled the two files that caused this messed and pulled my backups, but when I push them back to the phone it tells me I can't because their read only. I'd rather do it this way since I will be changing only the files that caused the problem.
EDIT: Is the RUU really going to delete all the information on my device? If thats the case I would really appreciate figuring out how to get adb to push my backuped files to the /system directory instead
ErikWithNoC said:
Alright I'm downloading that now.
In the meantime, how do I get root access with adb/give it permission to overwrite read only files? I pulled the two files that caused this messed and pulled my backups, but when I push them back to the phone it tells me I can't because their read only. I'd rather do it this way since I will be changing only the files that caused the problem.
EDIT: Is the RUU really going to delete all the information on my device? If thats the case I would really appreciate figuring out how to get adb to push my backuped files to the /system directory instead
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Yeah, the RUU returns your phone to factory (but doesn't touch your personal files)
EDIT: Also, just pulling this off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt...
adb devices
adb shell
su
*grant the su request on your device*
adb push <from> <to>
stnguyen09 said:
Yeah, the RUU returns your phone to factory (but doesn't touch your personal files)
EDIT: Also, just pulling this off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt...
adb devices
adb shell
su
*grant the su request on your device*
adb push <from> <to>
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Thanks for your comment. I used the RUU and it kept my personal data so its not a big lose. Had to reinstall a few apps, but for most of them (games at least) my saved data was still there.
I tried a lot using adb and just couldn't get it to work. I don't the phone got far enough through the boot process for root access to be allowed. I was able to run the one click root tool while it was in its stuck boot phase, but it still wouldn't give me permission to modify the /system portion of the phone to be read/write.
All in all though this was a great learning experience. Prior to this happening I knew nothing about adb and now I know commands for pulling, pushing, remounting, shell commands, and other things. I also learned how to fix a softbrick (first one) and what RUU is.