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Fail-proof: 4G + Root + Wifi Tether = everyone happy

hello everyone,
I have done enough flashing and reading for the past 4 days. I can now provide you guys with a 100% fail-proof method for getting 4G + Root + Wifi Tether:
1. Flash it back to RUU .1
http://rapidshare.com/files/389983490/RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe
2. Do the automatic OTA update from Sprint to get you to .6 (make sure it is 1.32.651.6 otherwise do not confirm)
3. From your phone, open up internet browser and go to www.unrevoked.com and get yourself rooted
4. From your phone, go to http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/detail?name=wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.apk&can=2&q= and install the wifi tether application
5. Reboot the phone
6. Update the Profile by going to settings/system update/update profile
7. Reboot the phone
8. Open up your wifi tether application and enjoy!
This is a guaranteed 100% will work with 4G. If it does not work for you, please let me know and I'll do my best to help. Stay tune. I will update this thread after tinkering with toast method, flip, flip ota update, newest radio, wifi tether.

anyone confirm this? Says my phone is rooted then I have an app requesting super user access.
Aite folks I can confirm this is bull****.

I can confirm. I have been waiting for full root for a while but in the meantime this works great. I get root access and am able to get 4G (Chicago) and also wifi tether works great, even when it is in 4G.

While this method works, it also locks us out of a custom recovery, which for me is the biggest reason I root.

angeltk said:
While this method works, it also locks us out of a custom recovery, which for me is the biggest reason I root.
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Why do you need a custom recovery when you cant even change the ROM with this Root.

That's why i said this is great until the NAND is unlocked so we can change system files while in Android.

dallastx said:
Why do you need a custom recovery when you cant even change the ROM with this Root.
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Which is why I'm running toast's root instead of unrevoked.

zotman said:
That's why i said this is great until the NAND is unlocked so we can change system files while in Android.
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Is this is something that will be done? My phone was updated on 6/4/2010 by the bestbuy A$$hole that pulled it out of the box. I have done this root method because I wanted wifi tether. (works great) Im not looking for a new ROM but only to remove the sprint bloatware that is on my phone.

worked for me thanks!!!!

worked for me thanks!!!!

dallastx said:
Why do you need a custom recovery when you cant even change the ROM with this Root.
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Because it allows you to make android backups, and flash different roms as well as being able to remove apps you don't want, which this rooting method doesn't do.

!It Works!
I used it for about 2 hours at a library.
Step 1. Get Evo and do the update
Step 2. Install unrevoked.
Attachment 1
Step 3. Install Wireless Tether for Root Users 2.0.2
Attachment 2
Step 4. Enjoy Wireless tethering.
**I only rebooted after step 1**

If all you want is root access for your apps and wifi tether then sure, go ahead.
I am rooted with toast's root process and I can wifi-tether via 4G as well as flash ROMs, make nandroid backups, and edit/remove/add system files.
Nothing against Unrevoked or the OP but I just don't want people to think that doing the method in this thread is the only way to get 4G.

watzone69 said:
If all you want is root access for your apps and wifi tether then sure, go ahead.
I am rooted with toast's root process and I can wifi-tether via 4G as well as flash ROMs, make nandroid backups, and edit/remove/add system files.
Nothing against Unrevoked or the OP but I just don't want people to think that doing the method in this thread is the only way to get 4G.
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well its true that there are more ways to get 4g but the problem is that all the other root methods are pretty much strewn about over the forums (we currently dont have anything to have a unified way to find roms) second NOT every rom is officially working correctly some users are not having 4g working with toats method some user do have 4g working theres no app thats 1000 percent confirmed to working perfectly right now, probably by next we we will have something tested and fully rooted with no large deficiencies. so anyway right now there are no fully configured roms, as such there no real point to root toasts way, besides right now you can downgrade easily and still root toasts way once other roms show up... so right now this is an easy way to root and if all you need is wireless tether then its perfect.
i find it funny that other devs who have made root come on to threads like this and scare people into thinking this is an inferior root, it IS NOT. some people dont care to remove all sorts of stuff some people just want to be able to wireless tether....

Freelancerx said:
well its true that there are more ways to get 4g but the problem is that all the other root methods are pretty much strewn about over the forums (we currently dont have anything to have a unified way to find roms) second NOT every rom is officially working correctly some users are not having 4g working with toats method some user do have 4g working theres no app thats 1000 percent confirmed to working perfectly right now, probably by next we we will have something tested and fully rooted with no large deficiencies. so anyway right now there are no fully configured roms, as such there no real point to root toasts way, besides right now you can downgrade easily and still root toasts way once other roms show up... so right now this is an easy way to root and if all you need is wireless tether then its perfect.
i find it funny that other devs who have made root come on to threads like this and scare people into thinking this is an inferior root, it IS NOT. some people dont care to remove all sorts of stuff some people just want to be able to wireless tether....
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Inferior as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary -- 2 a : of low or lower degree or rank b : of poor quality : mediocre
I believe when you have 2 Root's and 1 gives you more options, the one of lower degree or rank is an Inferior Root.
This is just like with the iPhone (which I just moved over from). Sure blackra1n did the job but it also was fast and dirty, didn't give people the ability to stop baseband updates and didn't give them the ability to adjust the partition sizes.
Which is what that one does by blocking custom restore options.
Honestly it took me a whole hour to go back from .6 to .1 then to flash the root, then to flash the custom rom, and flash the 4g radio and install the apk for wireless tethering. If you can't spare the 1 hour to do it right, well then I am sure they won't want to hear about it later when you lose your root.

Freelancerx said:
well its true that there are more ways to get 4g but the problem is that all the other root methods are pretty much strewn about over the forums...
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It's a sticky:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690762
Freelancerx said:
...(we currently dont have anything to have a unified way to find roms)...so anyway right now there are no fully configured roms, as such there no real point to root toasts way, besides right now you can downgrade easily and still root toasts way once other roms show up... ...
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ROMs!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698044
Freelancerx said:
second NOT every rom is officially working correctly some users are not having 4g working with toats method some user do have 4g working theres no app thats 1000 percent confirmed to working perfectly right now, probably by next we we will have something tested and fully rooted with no large deficiencies.
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This is true to a point. There are still some folks that are not able to wifi tether. However, quite a few have flashed the newer radio and had success. I'm still not 100% sure the 4G issue is ROM related.
Freelancerx said:
so right now this is an easy way to root and if all you need is wireless tether then its perfect.
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Agreed. This is what I was saying in my post.
Freelancerx said:
...i find it funny that other devs who have made root come on to threads like this and scare people into thinking this is an inferior root, it IS NOT. some people dont care to remove all sorts of stuff some people just want to be able to wireless tether....
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Believe me, there are no devs trying to scare people into using their root method.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud the fact that the OP of this thread is trying to help the community!

Worked for me. Until more research and development is done on the EVO all I want is the wireless tether. this worked great for me. Thanks!!
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Worked like a champ
Thanks for the easy instructions.

I agree with you freelancerx. I tried Toasts way at first and i could not get past the recover part the .bat file never opend my phone. I tried updateing the dirvers, installing htc sync, and did the sdk stuff and still noting. i did want to flash roms but i also wanted tether but i wanted to keep my sprint stiff for now. the unevoroked method is a great way of getting root access if you are looking for a way to use wifi and still have working 4g and not have to use the command promt to do everyting.

For those who have successfully done this, how in the world do you get around the whole Ad-Hoc Network connection thing. I rooted my phone by unrevoked and installed the Android-Wifi-Tether program. I've activated the program and it's sending out a signal. I then use my Windows Vista comp. to locate it and it shows my phone as an "Ad-Hoc Network" when I connect to it, it says your computer is not configured for this. I'm not sure now what I should do, is there a problem with my EVO, or this something I need to do with the computer.

Painless root is out by UnrEVOked

This might be the answer to the prayers of people who can't root, or are scared by all the other methods!
http://www.unrevoked.com/#desire
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
Common Problems & Questions
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Does unrevoked3 give me root?
Yes. It previously did not; as of version 3.0, it does.
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What does this do, then?
unrevoked3 will replace the stock Android recovery with a custom one, which adds many features including “nandroid” backups, the ability to use custom ROMs, and a greater amount of flexibility and customization of your Android phone.
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Does this permanently unlock the NAND flash on my phone?
No. The tool only unlocks the NAND flash sufficiently long to flash the custom recovery, ClockworkMod. Because of the mechanism that unrevoked2 uses, it is infeasible to leave it unlocked for longer. For this reason, the tool functions as a single unit–if any one part of it doesn't work, the NAND flash may not even be unlocked! After the reflash tool finishes running, the phone's hardware automatically relocks NAND flash.
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How do I use a custom recovery image instead of the packaged ClockworkMod?
You will need to choose a .img file, which is a binary file suitable for flashing. A .zip file will not work and may render your recovery partition inaccessible until you run unrevoked2 with an appropriate image.
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Are any drivers required?
On Linux and OS X, the program is self-contained. For Windows users, please install the HBOOT drivers contained in the package before use.
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I'm running Linux and it won't detect my device!
Either run the program with root permissions, or add appropriate udev rules to the file /etc/rules.d/51-android.rules. Instructions are available at the Android Developers website.
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The program hangs when “waiting for the system to settle.”
Uninstall any programs that may connect to the phone over USB and automatically sync. Specifically, we have had interference from HTC Sync and Doubletwist in the past; other programs may also cause trouble.
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Will you release the source code?
At this time, we are not disclosing the vulnerability we have exploited to unlock the NAND flash.
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That doesn't seem fair! Android is about open source.
In some senses, we agree; but at times, a tradeoff needs to be made. Releasing the source code for this, we believe, would compromise the greater ability to unlock devices like these in the future. Given the choice between sacrificing the liberty of running code on our handsets and the liberty of reading the code by which we unlock it, we feel that the millions of handsets are more important. It is unfortunate that we must make such a choice, and we look forward to the day in the future that no such decision need be made.
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I found this software useful, and I would like to donate to the team!
Thank you for your support. At this time, the team behind unrevoked3 does not accept donations; but we highly encourage our users to donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF performs the important role of standing up for our digital liberties, including the liberties to reverse-engineer devices that we own. If you are able, please consider making a contribution to them so that they can continue to perform this valuable service.
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Wish I'd seen this yesterday. Might come in handy in future though

wooot spent 3h earlier to get my desire rooted + installed a custom rom and everything and now theres a 1 click way madness!

hrmm this is interesting indeed

Yes, yes there it is But the year ends and 2 GHZ Android´s are coming and its time for a new one in 5 Months... This is 4 Months or so to late for me But nice to see
Keep up the good work, we want root every time =)
Dont read that before
That doesn't seem fair! Android is about open source.
In some senses, we agree; but at times, a tradeoff needs to be made. Releasing the source code for this, we believe, would compromise the greater ability to unlock devices like these in the future. Given the choice between sacrificing the liberty of running code on our handsets and the liberty of reading the code by which we unlock it, we feel that the millions of handsets are more important. It is unfortunate that we must make such a choice, and we look forward to the day in the future that no such decision need be made.
Hope HTC will not detect your method ;-) Dont release it !!! =)

Great work!
Worked perfectly for me in one minute!
Thank you!
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i wonder if a goldcard is still required using this method....when i rooted my Desire I needed the goldcard.

Nice tool!
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craylim said:
i wonder if a goldcard is still required using this method....when i rooted my Desire I needed the goldcard.
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can anybody verify this? I'm interested to know too.
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It works. Was painless. And I'm a NOOB.
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does it wipe your current system? Also, if it does, whats the best way to backup stuffon your flash memory? Or is HTC sync the best?(sorry, i know its offtopic)

no, it doesnt
jniranjan said:
does it wipe your current system? Also, if it does, whats the best way to backup stuffon your flash memory? Or is HTC sync the best?(sorry, i know its offtopic)
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how long does the "pushing recovery image" take?

This is the first time I've really been tempted to root my Desire. I don't have a gold card though and admit I'm a noob as far as Android and rooting is concerned, so I'll hold off until the earlier queries are answered I guess.

Ok please bear with me, i am new to android but not with flashing.
1.I will be using unrevoked, to root my desire, is this any different to rooting of xda.
2. And after rooting my device with unrevoked, will i be able to flash roms made in xda??
3.If i stuck at any procedure of rooting through unrevoked, how will i recover??
Thanks in advance

So how do we use this?, and what exactly does it do?? a guide for noobs like me would be usefull
Thanks

feenty said:
Great work!
Worked perfectly for me in one minute!
Thank you!
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so how did you used it, any procedure??

QUOTE=samy.3660;7192963]so how did you used it, any procedure??[/QUOTE]
Thats what kind want to know
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Just used it to flash a recovery, worked sweet. I too would like to know use it for root out of curiosity. Just a quick side note, the mac app icon still shows evo2

I am already rooted so this is just idle curiosity but does this work with the newer 1.22 and 1.23 ROMs which seem to be unrootable by conventional means?

unrEVOked 3.0

I haven't seen a thread about this, and it looks like this method is fairly fresh. I figured I'd give it a try...and it doesn't seem to work.
It gets hung up on the "flashing recovery image" part.
**Edit**
You have to remove HTC Sync AND the drivers that come with it. When I first tried this, I just installed the USB drivers that unrEVOked came. Looks like you have to totally removed anything from HTC before this can work.
And yes, it does work.

Same thing happens to me.
I have the latest software from Sprint. I don't know if this not working has anything to do with me trying to run unrevoked2 previously.

Not sure...I would uninstall any software from Sprint and HTC before you run this.
That may help.
Great job unrEVOked team. I waited to root my phone again until you guys figured it out again.

What does it do...?

can somebody give a detailed step by step on how to use this unrevoked 3?
and will it leave us having the new 1.47 radio and wifi update?

I asked this on another forum... but why not here?
Does this unrevoked do a full root, where it wipes all your data?

After seeing their one patch potentially ruin people's 4G for good, I've decided not to try their methods anymore. Hopefully 3.0 helps some people.
I like the Simple Root method and Whitslack's method.

So it seems like it doesn't wipe your data... anyone tried this and can confirm?

it doesn't wipe your data i just rooted mine in 3 minutes

halorin said:
After seeing their one patch potentially ruin people's 4G for good, I've decided not to try their methods anymore. Hopefully 3.0 helps some people.
I like the Simple Root method and Whitslack's method.
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I just want to clarify that unrEVOked is not responsible for that. There was a problem with the OTA update itself that broke 4G for some people, which HTC is and was responsible for. The only thing unrEVOked did was distribute said OTA update in pre-rooted form.

So after you run this, will it be possible to unlock nand protection to achieve a full root?

Ah ok uninstalling HTC Sync and its driver did the trick. I'm now rooted for the first time! w00t!
android-wifi-tether works great too!

gbm85 said:
I just want to clarify that unrEVOked is not responsible for that. There was a problem with the OTA update itself that broke 4G for some people, which HTC is and was responsible for. The only thing unrEVOked did was distribute said OTA update in pre-rooted form.
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That's 100% not true. The borking of the 4g was due to the way that the unrEVOked method wrote the wimax image to the wimax partition. This wasn't unique to the unrEVOked method, but it was something that should likely have been tested before release.

patelkedar91 said:
I asked this on another forum... but why not here?
Does this unrevoked do a full root, where it wipes all your data?
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No, it doesn't wipe ANY of your data. After I performed it, all of my apps and files were still 100% intact.

SayWhat10 said:
can somebody give a detailed step by step on how to use this unrevoked 3?
and will it leave us having the new 1.47 radio and wifi update?
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I believe it does. My software version didn't change afterwards.
To be frank, I'm not really sure how exactly this works. I know it changes your recovery, but other than that...I have no clue.
Still, it's a way of a achieving root that I'm fairly confident most users can pull off.
Remember: YOU MUST REMOVE HTC SYNC, AND ANY HTC/SPRINT DRIVERS
Otherwise...it gets hung up during the process.

Yeah whoops...
Make sure you uninstall HTC Sync AND HTC Drivers... if you have Windows 7, just search, from the launcher thing, "htc un--" and it'll fill in the rest.
Edit: Trying it for the second time, it gets stuck at "Waiting for device..." and it's connected.
Edit 2: DON'T uninstall the extra htc drivers... I don't know, but it's not recognizing my phone now, zzz.

So I'm confused a little bit. With unrevoked 3 you can flash a recovery image and flash a custom ROM now?
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Diplomat2387 said:
So I'm confused a little bit. With unrevoked 3 you can flash a recovery image and flash a custom ROM now?
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On their site they say: unrevoked3 will replace the stock Android recovery with a custom one, which adds many features including “nandroid” backups, the ability to use custom ROMs, and a greater amount of flexibility and customization of your Android phone.
So I'm guessing I could finally try out some of those ROM's I seeing floating around here. All I'm really after is a fully functional version of Froyo for the Evo, but I'm not sure if that's out yet...

christophermx4 said:
On their site they say: unrevoked3 will replace the stock Android recovery with a custom one, which adds many features including “nandroid” backups, the ability to use custom ROMs, and a greater amount of flexibility and customization of your Android phone.
So I'm guessing I could finally try out some of those ROM's I seeing floating around here. All I'm really after is a fully functional version of Froyo for the Evo, but I'm not sure if that's out yet...
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Nothing working 100% yet, but DamageControl & Cyanogen are the two closest i think ( hope to see a 100%-working FroYo within the next few days ).

christophermx4 said:
On their site they say: unrevoked3 will replace the stock Android recovery with a custom one, which adds many features including “nandroid” backups, the ability to use custom ROMs, and a greater amount of flexibility and customization of your Android phone.
So I'm guessing I could finally try out some of those ROM's I seeing floating around here. All I'm really after is a fully functional version of Froyo for the Evo, but I'm not sure if that's out yet...
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So this is full root like how everybody is doing manually? Can a expert chime in on this method and explain the drawback to this if any?
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One click Root APK for CDMA Hero

UPDATE: This has been confirmed as working
This is a direct port of my Eris one click app, with just a name change and recovery change. Should work fine. No PC, no nothing needed, but this apk. Please remember this is experimental, and since I have no hero it is untested. The eris community got so much from the Hero CMDA guys, thought I would send something back. If someone cares to test and let me know, I would appreciate it. If you are serious about wanting to test it, and want to see the source prior to testing I will provide it on request.
How it works. It used the symlink trick on mid.txt, then flashes recovery on root and extracts rootme.zip to your sdcard. Which has superuser.apk and su in it. This app doesn't have the best ui, and looks "dirty", but works great on the eris and I have no plans to update the look of it.
I believe this should work on all 2.1 hero, but most surely the Alltel one.
Preface, This is not a free app, its a try before you buy app. If this app works for you, and you are happy with it. You are required to donate a meal to a homeless youth, or any amount of money to a youth outreach type program.
This is a TeamAndIRC production.
I got bored and whipped this up tonight with ECLIPS3. This will root your Herp running 2.1 with 1 click.
If something doesn't work, don't freak just contact me, and we can figure it out.
This does NOT erase anything off your phone.You can keep you data/apps with this root!
Step 1) download and install this apk
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8699733/heroroot010.apk - VERSION 0.1.0
Step 2) Run, read disclaimer, press button
Step 3) Reboot, once rebooted your phone should have Darchstar's recovery. Yay.
Step 4) Use the recovery to flash rootme.zip that is now on your SDCard, or the custom rom of your choice.
Step 5) Go into settings, and turn usb debugging on. After you have root, please uninstall this app.
Just that easy.
Please come chat with use at http://chat.andirc.net or irc.andirc.net #droideris if you have a separate IRC client.
Credit to:
Eclips3 for spending hours and hours and hours testing my crap. Without him this app wouldn't exist.
TopazAaron for the icon
wag3slav3 for the root method
DarchStar for the recovery image
erisuser1 for the post that gave me the idea.
and to the authors of flash_image and superuser.apk.

I'm going to test it in about 10 minutes (once my tester finishes charging).
My tester is currently running the 2.1 stock, .5 version, but the phone I want to root is a .6. Will this (theoretically, of course) work on both?

Looks good, I know there are still a lot of alltel users who are having trouble gaining root on their phones.

tquetano said:
I'm going to test it in about 10 minutes (once my tester finishes charging).
My tester is currently running the 2.1 stock, .5 version, but the phone I want to root is a .6. Will this (theoretically, of course) work on both?
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Long as the phone is vuln to th symlink trick, it should work.

Need a Tester for Root App
jcase and I need a tester that is willing to unroot their phone so that they can then test out a root app we made. It should work with minimal chance of brick, but would like someone to test it out for us.
The app has already been released in this section, so im going to link to the original post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743289
Join us in irc: chat.andirc.net #droideris
or irc.andirc.net #droideris
come find myself (ECLIPS3) or jcase on the irc.

How could it brick it at all? I thought the only way was to flash a GSM radio

derekwilkinson said:
How could it brick it at all? I thought the only way was to flash a GSM radio
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by flashing the wrong file to the phone thats not compatible. or having it get corrupted while flashing the recovery to the phone. its a very minimal chance of brick, like 0.0001% chance it bricks, but just wanted to give people a heads up before they risk putting their phones up for testing.

confirmed working, have fun.

tquetano said:
I'm going to test it in about 10 minutes (once my tester finishes charging).
My tester is currently running the 2.1 stock, .5 version, but the phone I want to root is a .6. Will this (theoretically, of course) work on both?
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I just ran the app on my 2.1 stock, .6 version, but I'm at work at can't tell if it's rooted or not. I'll try to post back after I get off work. I don't have a data connecetion at work so I can download an app and find out.
EDIT: IT WORKS!! I download titanium backup and it appears to be working fine.
BTW...my data connection was fine, it just doesn't seem to work while I have wifi on

Does this do 100% full root?

Works !!!
Thanks for this work,it is much appreciated

Thanks!
Worked nicely. Off to try new roms.

what is the difference in this and the other universal (meaning a bunch of phones) one click root app?

If you plan on staying on the rooted stock ROM, I recommend flashing my boot-patched.zip from my rooting thread to keep full root in adb shell.

is this for a rooted or non rooted phone? im sorry im new to droid

this is a way to root it. So, for an unrooted one to get root.

This was too stupidly easy.
I ran into some serious issues when I accidentally used the Unrevoked.apk on a .6 SW Build instead of .5 SW Build...and this fixed it. Well assuming my odex is going well behind the splash screen.
THANK YOU!
Will donate in a couple weeks when I get paid, for certain.

Do you put that ADK file on your SD card in the phone? Or install it on your comp first?

Put the .apk on.ur sdcard andbinstall it from a app managwr
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Wow, that was unbelievably easy. Thank you. Now that I'm rooting, how do I get rid of the crap Sprint software like Sprint TV? I tried to uninstall and it wouldn't let me.

Just bought one!

I bought a MyTouch on Amazon for 43 dollars.
Can someone provide a simple guide for me so I can update it to the latest CWM? I've never done any mods with an HTC like this and when I did it was the Hero and I hard bricked it. I had a few G1's, too...
Anyway, can someone PM me or reply to this? I need something quick and easy.
Starting from Rooting and finishishing at CM install.
My current device is an LG Phoenix, so... Big Upgrade!

AndrMatr said:
I bought a MyTouch on Amazon for 43 dollars.
Can someone provide a simple guide for me so I can update it to the latest CWM? I've never done any mods with an HTC like this and when I did it was the Hero and I hard bricked it. I had a few G1's, too...
Anyway, can someone PM me or reply to this? I need something quick and easy.
Starting from Rooting and finishishing at CM install.
My current device is an LG Phoenix, so... Big Upgrade!
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I would start with this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801106
It will unlock your bootloader, add CWM, and root your (arriving) phone (in that order). If there are any dead links, I should be able to help out (except for the drivers - you can either try ADBSetup or use Linux to unlock the bootloader).
I would skip Juopunutbear unless you are planning to flash every other week . I did it, it's no big deal, but the best I got out of S-OFF was to change the start-up logo (before the bootanimation).
Hope this gives an idea.

joel.maxuel said:
I would start with this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801106
It will unlock your bootloader, add CWM, and root your (arriving) phone (in that order). If there are any dead links, I should be able to help out (except for the drivers - you can either try ADBSetup or use Linux to unlock the bootloader).
I would skip Juopunutbear unless you are planning to flash every other week . I did it, it's no big deal, but the best I got out of S-OFF was to change the start-up logo (before the bootanimation).
Hope this gives an idea.
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So what if I don't have Admin privileges on a computer? Will Fastboot and ADB still work? I don't know about the drivers...
And I had the original myTouch 3G and I installed the Visionary (the one with the yellow triangle with the lightning bolt hitting a guy) APK file. I was able to flash CWM Recovery after Visionary rooted the device. Is it possible to flash ROMS using CWM instead of unlocking the bootloader?

AndrMatr said:
So what if I don't have Admin privileges on a computer? Will Fastboot and ADB still work? I don't know about the drivers...
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Probably not. I haven't seen a situation where drivers can install without admin priv.
AndrMatr said:
And I had the original myTouch 3G and I installed the Visionary (the one with the yellow triangle with the lightning bolt hitting a guy) APK file. I was able to flash CWM Recovery after Visionary rooted the device. Is it possible to flash ROMS using CWM instead of unlocking the bootloader?
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That would be gaining root through an exploit. If I recall correctly, all of those have been sealed in future OTA's. The only way that makes sense (that is, not trying every rooting package out there) is to unlock the bootloader first. It's really not that bad.

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joel.maxuel said:
Probably not. I haven't seen a situation where drivers can install without admin priv.
That would be gaining root through an exploit. If I recall correctly, all of those have been sealed in future OTA's. The only way that makes sense (that is, not trying every rooting package out there) is to unlock the bootloader first. It's really not that bad.
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The MT4GS I'm getting is running Gingerbread. If I use GingerBreak APK to root the phone and install CWM, can I still back up the stock OS? And for future reference, how would I keep the baseband once I'm ready to flash ROMs? Like the IMEI and stuff like that?
And the guide that you directed me towards is slightly complicated.
Is there an APK that can turn S-Off? if so, how reliable is it?
And for future reference (I like saying that) the ETA for device delivery is Wednesday on the East Coast of the United States.

AndrMatr said:
The MT4GS I'm getting is running Gingerbread. If I use GingerBreak APK to root the phone and install CWM, can I still back up the stock OS? And for future reference, how would I keep the baseband once I'm ready to flash ROMs? Like the IMEI and stuff like that?
And the guide that you directed me towards is slightly complicated.
Is there an APK that can turn S-Off? if so, how reliable is it?
And for future reference (I like saying that) the ETA for device delivery is Wednesday on the East Coast of the United States.
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Getting out of my comfort zone here, but that should be possible. CWM will be able to back up system and boot, effectively the stock OS.
Haven't heard of people losing their IMEI's with this phone, nor of any backup to protect it, so that should be fine.
When I went through it, I found the guide a bit daunting as well, but you get used to it (alternatively there is below, which I never used).
There is no APK to S-Off (too complicated for a user app, and your phone would be upside down half the time thus making the screen unreadable), but there is this that can speed up the process:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2438884
This can root as well. It's no APK, but should get the job done.

joel.maxuel said:
Getting out of my comfort zone here, but that should be possible. CWM will be able to back up system and boot, effectively the stock OS.
Haven't heard of people losing their IMEI's with this phone, nor of any backup to protect it, so that should be fine.
When I went through it, I found the guide a bit daunting as well, but you get used to it (alternatively there is below, which I never used).
There is no APK to S-Off (too complicated for a user app, and your phone would be upside down half the time thus making the screen unreadable), but there is this that can speed up the process:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2438884
This can root as well. It's no APK, but should get the job done.
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*cringes* Windows admin priiivveellleges.....?
And can we just talk about this through PM? the XDA site is destroying my data. The app is better.

s-off has gotten easier. juopunutbear (or however you spell it) is no longer needed. rumrunner s-off is by far easier to use. this is what I used combined with the windroid program to root.

I bought one from a liquidator online. Brand new, out of the box, with the plastic still on the screen and stuff. Unmarked battery, though. Charges a bit too fast. Was labelled as "refurbished" but came in the original manufacturer box with original PC sync cable and chager. I found a way to root the stock ROM without S-OFF, just with CWM. All I had t do was flash a 2.3.6 ZIP that had the SU binary and the .apk file for the Samsung Galaxy Admire. It works on the really stupid Huawei model, too. Which, I installed the Raspberry Pi variation of SliTaz on it, and it works great! But as soon as I came back to my apartment from work I unlocked the bootloader(HTC model), installed CWM, flashed the ZIP fro 1.4 DS, and then did a backup of my old non-functional broken peice of shi...Yeah, and then then flashed the boot image through fastboot, and then restored my backup. My point is, though, my Minecraft PE and my Ravensword 2 installations diappeared after restoring the backup. Any ideas of why this happened?

mattlowry said:
s-off has gotten easier. juopunutbear (or however you spell it) is no longer needed. rumrunner s-off is by far easier to use. this is what I used combined with the windroid program to root.
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thanks this is good info, i recently just got my slide to have cm9 without s-off and lets say that was a process trying to shift about all these dead links on this forum. but i plan on getting another mytouch cause i wanna switch back to a keyboard phone and well the keyboard died some how from sitting for so long but now that i have cm9 on this phone holly poo it runs fast and smooth.
anyway thanks for the info
i looked up the rumrunner and does it matter that its not completely made for the doubleshot? or does it just do it to any htc phone?

g-fetus6 said:
thanks this is good info, i recently just got my slide to have cm9 without s-off and lets say that was a process trying to shift about all these dead links on this forum. But i plan on getting another mytouch cause i wanna switch back to a keyboard phone and well the keyboard died some how from sitting for so long but now that i have cm9 on this phone holly poo it runs fast and smooth.
Anyway thanks for the info
i looked up the rumrunner and does it matter that its not completely made for the doubleshot? Or does it just do it to any htc phone?
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they have a universal version that works fine