Sorry to sound pig ignorant about phones but I am ... my expertise is in PCs. So anyway I want to upgrade the Hero with CyanogenMod.
I backed up my contacts, apps, etc and rooted the phone with unrevoked ... lost everything in memory in the process, but that's OK -- the important stuff is backed up.
Rebooted into stock 21. ROM and skipped all the new user stuff ...
OK, here's where I'm lost ... to load the CyanogenMod ROM I apparently need something like Amon-RA, but to load Amon-RA image file I need to install the SDK pack.
So I downloaded the SDK pack, but it is nothing like what is described in all the install SDK posts I've been able to find. What I have found are instructions about running ASroot and other files that don't exist in the SDK version I have.
So like what do I do now, more important ... is there an A to B thread for doing this mod starting from a stock phone, going to unlocking, than loading SDK, than installing Amon-RA (or equivalent) and than installing CyanogenMOD.
I know all this info is out there, but it seems like most of the files I've found don't interface well in the sense that the ones that talk about doing step one aren't terribly relevant to ones that talk about step 2, etc.
Thanks
Yes. Its a sticky at the top of the page. Search "guides" lol...
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All you need to do with the sdk is download it and extract it. I just put it in the root of my C: drive. Then open a cmd prompt in windows by going to Start > Run > cmd (press enter). Then in the command prompt you need to change directories to the sdk folder you extracted. For example, mine is in C:\android-sdk-windows. I just type "cd c:\android-sdk-windows" then "cd tools" to get into the directory where you can run the adb program. Make sure your phone is in debugging mode by going to settings > applications > development > check the USB Debugging box. Then you can hook the phone up to the usb and run the command "adb devices". If everything is working correctly then you should see a device serial number show up. If that doesn't work make sure you have the htc drivers installed by downloading htc sync from their website and installing it.
Once adb can see the phone then you should run the command "adb shell" and then when you get a $ prompt type su in order to elevate to root. Make sure you put a recovery image on the phones sd card using step 4 from this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572 I think he has a link to download the recovery in that guide but just in case here is a direct download link for the recovery: http://www.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2.img Feel free to rename it to recovery.img so that the commands in the guide can be used as is.
Now you should be able to start at step nine from the guide in that thread (you should be in an adb shell when you start). It should be the adb command to flash a recovery image. Once you do that installing roms is as simple as putting them on your sd card and booting into recovery to select the flash option.
Please help me root my lg optimus P500 with gingerbread V20G downloaded from lg's server.Its not even getting rooted my superoneclick & gingerbreak.Pls help.....
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Wrong forum buddy. Belongs in general
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I give up. Click on the recovery howto in my signature and flash custom recovery. After that, flash a rooted ROM. If you dislike this advice, then kindly search harder. People generally get irritated when then are answering the same questions 10 times a day because people are too lazy.
superoneclick (gingerbreak exploit) work for me on stock V20c, check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156403
hxxp://www.lg-p500.ru/2011/06/root-android-233.html
shanktech said:
Please help me root my lg optimus P500 with gingerbread V20G downloaded from lg's server.Its not even getting rooted my superoneclick & gingerbreak.Pls help.....
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Hi guys, regarding the problem about rooting the original GB, it can be done, and it's not that complicated.
First of all there are a couple of things that you have to consider before starting to root.
1. Be sure that you have installed the original V20G GB ROM.
2. if you have it installed and tried different methods to root on it do a factory reset before trying this one.
3. Be absolutely sure that you have all the drives installed when working with the phone in USB debugging mode, if not install them.
4. Download SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse, after download extract the files into a folder with the same name as the archive.
5. After you extracted the files, go to C:\Windows\System32 and copy the cmd.exe to the folder where you extracted the files, in my case C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse\ADB.
6. Connect the phone to the PC with Debugging mode (Enter the phone settings menu, to the Development and tick the USB debugging mode)
7. right click on cmd.exe from the ADB folder, Run as administrator, than write:
adb devices (after this command you should see your device id)
adb shell
echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf,
Do not close the window, live it like that.
8. Start SuperOneClick.exe, leave the settings to the SuperOneClick as they are when it opens, click on ROOT and wait, it will say Starting ADB server..., than it will do it's job and than it will appear Waiting for device... it will say ok and that if it freezes while running psneuter do the following:
a. Turn USB Debugging OFF wait until it will appear in the window again Starting ADB server..., after that,
b. Turn USB Debugging ON, and after this trick it will start rooting.
This is the method that i did twice and it worked like a charm.
After this it will ask you to reboot the phone, DO NOT FORGET, and after the reboot click on the SuperUser icon in the phone's menu. it will aks you if you allow or deny it's access. click allow. After this you must connect to the internet via Wireless or a apn, click on the superuser icon again if you exit it, go to settings, scroll down and you will see Su Binary v.XXXX, click on that to update it, than go to market and search the super user app and update it. Also update busybox. After this you have root access and you can install a custom recovery. Also you can install your preferred Kernel if you don't like the stock one.
If you do not get the Allow Deny message the root was not completed successfully. do a factory reset and try again the same steps.
see images attached as proof.
Well, I installed V20 C via doktornotor method but couldn root it by flashing the signed su binary via recovery.
So I tried the above mentioned method and it worked. But every time the Superuser Force closes and its too buggy.. Any solutions. ?
Yes, same here, i tried doktornotor's method both 20C and 20G and didnt work, this Super1click works but su force closes everytime Any ideeas??
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I managed to root gingerbread with doktornotor's method V20g
Just use his image, BUT dont use su-2.3.6.3-cd-signed.zip
Download from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110733 su-2.3.6.2-efgh-signed.zip and install it wia clockworkmod recovery zip installer and works like a charm
omfg! plz make Zroot for 2.3.3
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Hi guys, regarding the problem about rooting the original GB, it can be done, and it's not that complicated.
First of all there are a couple of things that you have to consider before starting to root.
1. Be sure that you have installed the original V20G GB ROM.
2. if you have it installed and tried different methods to root on it do a factory reset before trying this one.
3. Be absolutely sure that you have all the drives installed when working with the phone in USB debugging mode, if not install them.
4. Download SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse, after download extract the files into a folder with the same name as the archive.
5. After you extracted the files, go to C:\Windows\System32 and copy the cmd.exe to the folder where you extracted the files, in my case C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse\ADB.
6. Connect the phone to the PC with Debugging mode (Enter the phone settings menu, to the Development and tick the USB debugging mode)
7. right click on cmd.exe from the ADB folder, Run as administrator, than write:
adb devices (after this command you should see your device id)
adb shell
echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf,
Do not close the window, live it like that.
8. Start SuperOneClick.exe, leave the settings to the SuperOneClick as they are when it opens, click on ROOT and wait, it will say Starting ADB server..., than it will do it's job and than it will appear Waiting for device... it will say ok and that if it freezes while running psneuter do the following:
a. Turn USB Debugging OFF wait until it will appear in the window again Starting ADB server..., after that,
b. Turn USB Debugging ON, and after this trick it will start rooting.
This is the method that i did twice and it worked like a charm.
After this it will ask you to reboot the phone, DO NOT FORGET, and after the reboot click on the SuperUser icon in the phone's menu. it will aks you if you allow or deny it's access. click allow. After this you must connect to the internet via Wireless or a apn, click on the superuser icon again if you exit it, go to settings, scroll down and you will see Su Binary v.XXXX, click on that to update it, than go to market and search the super user app and update it. Also update busybox. After this you have root access and you can install a custom recovery. Also you can install your preferred Kernel if you don't like the stock one.
If you do not get the Allow Deny message the root was not completed successfully. do a factory reset and try again the same steps.
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this also works for rooting v20e european P500 gingerbread rom, so many ppl have asked about this, ffs cannot believe how a small thing can make such a diff
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echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf,
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Should I type the comma at the end on cmd? Can you please explain what exactly the above command does? Does it create the above file on the above filepath on device? If I typed both
echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf
and
echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf,
should I erase one of these files?
Without comma.
Help me for rooting Indian V20c LGP500
g0mezz said:
Hi guys, regarding the problem about rooting the original GB, it can be done, and it's not that complicated.
First of all there are a couple of things that you have to consider before starting to root.
1. Be sure that you have installed the original V20G GB ROM.
2. if you have it installed and tried different methods to root on it do a factory reset before trying this one.
3. Be absolutely sure that you have all the drives installed when working with the phone in USB debugging mode, if not install them.
4. Download SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse, after download extract the files into a folder with the same name as the archive.
5. After you extracted the files, go to C:\Windows\System32 and copy the cmd.exe to the folder where you extracted the files, in my case C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\SuperOneClickv1.9.5-ShortFuse\ADB.
6. Connect the phone to the PC with Debugging mode (Enter the phone settings menu, to the Development and tick the USB debugging mode)
7. right click on cmd.exe from the ADB folder, Run as administrator, than write:
adb devices (after this command you should see your device id)
adb shell
echo 1 > /data/local/lge_adb.conf,
Do not close the window, live it like that.
8. Start SuperOneClick.exe, leave the settings to the SuperOneClick as they are when it opens, click on ROOT and wait, it will say Starting ADB server..., than it will do it's job and than it will appear Waiting for device... it will say ok and that if it freezes while running psneuter do the following:
a. Turn USB Debugging OFF wait until it will appear in the window again Starting ADB server..., after that,
b. Turn USB Debugging ON, and after this trick it will start rooting.
This is the method that i did twice and it worked like a charm.
After this it will ask you to reboot the phone, DO NOT FORGET, and after the reboot click on the SuperUser icon in the phone's menu. it will aks you if you allow or deny it's access. click allow. After this you must connect to the internet via Wireless or a apn, click on the superuser icon again if you exit it, go to settings, scroll down and you will see Su Binary v.XXXX, click on that to update it, than go to market and search the super user app and update it. Also update busybox. After this you have root access and you can install a custom recovery. Also you can install your preferred Kernel if you don't like the stock one.
If you do not get the Allow Deny message the root was not completed successfully. do a factory reset and try again the same steps.
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Hi,
Actually I want root my LG Optimus One .I have INDIA phone with official V20c Rom. Can anybody help me how to root my phone without any risk of bricking it. I have also read many thread about rooting 2.3.3 through super one click {like this one h**p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200167} but people were saying something about force close errors... So can anybody provide me a successful and error free method of rooting it. and Please also share me the method to unroot it.
Thanks in advance.
I've read in a topic that I can't find, that after rooting usb debugging should always be on and disabling it could cause problems. I can't remember what kind of problems. Is that true? Should I keep it enabled?
Ok im pretty sure my phone is rooted coz it said in the superuser log root-allowed so yes thnx for helping me root my phone, now install custom recovery bla blah and then rom install
Which Drivers? From where?
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3. Be absolutely sure that you have all the drives installed when working with the phone in USB debugging mode, if not install them.
Thanks for the post. But i want to know which drivers? People like me do not know about this so please help. I can connect my phone via usb as i downloaded lg support tool and it installed the driver or drivers. Is that enough?
Awaiting response desperately as i am eager to root now, thanks a lot.
where can i download this ADB and i need a full guide about adb. step by step.
cause i have a problem in my vibrant, (fixing the partition "mbr error")
thanks to who are willing to help
You'd be wise to read up on the Android SDK before you attempt anything to do with ADB, or flashing Android stuff in general.
Read all you can, because it will kill your phone if you don't know what you're doing. You don't just 'download' ADB. It's part of a set of tools.
Sitting down and reading through the information on the SDK will give you the added bonus of being able to help others as well
Good luck.
can't find my devices
How should I do
If it can't find your device, download a program called usbdeview. Open the program (make sure you run as administrator). Delete all drivers associated with your device. Make sure you have USB debugging checked on your phone and then plug it back into your computer. This should automatically download the drivers necessary to run ADB.
Problem getting adb installed.
Installed the JDK.
Installed the Android SDK, revision 15.
Now I am stuck, not sure how to install ADB, don't know if it's done from within the SDK manager.
I've got a Rogers i727R. It's running 2.3.5. It's the stock ROM, rooted. I was figuring that I would have to tick the checkbox in Android SDK Manager for 2.3.5 and download those components, and that would give me everything I need.
But there is no 2.3.5. There is 2.2, and 2.3.3, and of course Android 4.
I do have drivers for my phone installed through Kies if that matters. Any pointers in the right direction would be appriciated.
Harry
Thanks goes to Silver<<<<<<
1- Like always enable your Debugging. you can enable that by going to your Settings -> Application -> Development
2- Install the android SDK . you can download it Android SDK
3- Extract the SDK to any folder, Example : C:\Android
4- Make sure you have the drivers installed- In that way your OS can talk to your phone!
now that everything is installed we can go ahead and perform a command :
1. Open the 'run' dialog by pressing the 'Windows' + 'r' buttons on your keyboard (minimize the browser & other non-windows programs) 2. cmd (this will open a DOS prompt) 3. cd c:\Android\tools (go to the directory where you extracted the SDK) 4. adb shell 5. Now you'll see just a '$' 6. logcat
You can now just press the power button on your phone to see what happens. It displays everything the device is doing.
So the thing is: leave your device connected for a while and see what is actually going on when you're not using it. Boom
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OP,
Just install the 'Tools' listed there in the sdk downloader. you dont need to worry about anything else
It seems to also want me to install the Google USB Driver package. Any reason to do that?
harry_fine said:
It seems to also want me to install the Google USB Driver package. Any reason to do that?
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just do it, it wont affect anything negatively
By the way, it worked great. I can now talk to my phone using the emulator on my PC. I see the list of adb commands, lots of stuff. Seems I can even install apk files, run a remove shell. Very cool.
Lol good luck
Hello, i just got my new samsung 7 plus with honeycome 3.2 and im loving it
I want to know what is the step by step instruction to rooting my device using adb?
the root.zip i found on here dont work for me. when i save the file to /sdcard and n reboot n go into wher i applie the zip from sdcard it shows no files at all on my card. i bought the 16gb version of this tab so i dont have the externel sdcard. i thought that i read one the forum you can only use the externel card not the interel. i believe they added the folder /sdcard to the internel drive and thats why it not viewing.
The rooting instructions say to put it on an "external" sdcard for a reason as recovery will not recognize the internal storage. Do you have adb installed on your computer and at least know how to use it? If not it is going to be way easier for you to just go and spend the $10 for an 8 GB sdcard and install it that way.
I can at least get you part way, installing the sdk and jdk. Here are the instructions for installing the android sdk (adb) direct from google. You also need the java jdk installed on your commputer and google has a link in their instructions.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
You first need the proper usb drivers installed and not exactly sure on how to do that. I already had the android usb drivers installed on my computer for my phone and I just let the compter install whatever else it needed the first time I connected my tab to it.
You will need usb debugging turned in your settings and then power the tab off. You would then plug the usb cable into the tab and computer then boot it into recovery. Once into recovery Mount/System. You then run adb in a command window and change the drive to the platform-tools directory where adb resides. It would look something like this in a command window (c:\android-sdk-windows\ is how I set my computer up yours may be different):
cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
To check and see if your device is recognized by adb run the command:
adb devices
If nothing is listed then adb isn't recognizing the device and you would need to troubleshoot your installation or boot method.
As far as installing the root.zip file I'm not sure as I've never had to do that before as I've always had an external sdcard on my devices. Maybe someone else can take you thru the last step. I believe all you would do is push the file inside the zip folder over to the tab. The su file inside the root.zip folder needs to be in the same directory as adb, platform-tools directory.
adb push su /system/bin
I'm not sure if you need to change permissions on this file or not and that is done thru a chmod command in adb shell but not sure of the proper code to use for the GTab to do this. For my phone setting permissions looks like this:
adb shell
cd /system/bin
chmod 0644 Su
exit
Do not use this chmod as I'm not sure it will work on the GTab or what it will do to it, it just an example.
In summary these are the basic steps you are trying to accomplish:
1. Install Java JDK
2. Install Android SDK
3. Install USB drivers
4. Turn USB debugging on in Tabs settings
5. Boot Tab into recovery while connected to PC
6. Mount/System in recovery
7. ADB push su file to system/bin
8. Set permissions of su???
9. Exit adb
10. Reboot phone and install superuser and busy box from market
Thanks im rooted now. I took the sdcard out of my droidx & it works on my galaxy tab & i used the root.zip file.
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ronlsjr said:
Thanks im rooted now. I took the sdcard out of my droidx & it works on my galaxy tab & i used the root.zip file.
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Yes any sdcard will do and that is the easiest way. Though I think everyone should learn how to use adb anyways as it is useful especially if you get into modding.
Yes i do want to learn how to use adb. My desire is to become a developer.
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Just follow the link I provided previously to the android developers site and follow the instructions. You will first have to have Java JDK installed and a link to that is provided on the android developers website in the link. Once JDK is installed download and install the SDK. It will only put the basic functions onto your computer and you will have to install the rest through SDK Manager, this can take a while, up to an hour or so depending on what packages you want to install. At the minimum you would want the Android 3.2 API (GTab 7+ uses this) and the Google USB drivers and then any other API's for phones you may have. I myself installed all the API's as my first phone had Donut (Android 1.6).
I know this may be a stupid question but why root? what special features does it give you? I am not sure If I want to or not.
Anyone? I'm just curious if I should flash a ROM on here or not I just don't know why because it works fine now after the SwiftKey x and other little apps
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don't get confused by the lingo...
Noah321 said:
Anyone? I'm just curious if I should flash a ROM on here or not I just don't know why because it works fine now after the SwiftKey x and other little apps
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There's a difference between "flashing a ROM" and "adding root access".
A custom ROM implies someone has taken the stock software infrastructure, altered/tailored/customized it, and packaged it for others to easily use.
"Rooting" a device just simply gives you access to certain folders, permissions, files, etc.
It's like giving yourself Admin Rights to your work computer (assuming you're over 18 and/or working).
It allows you to do things that the manufacture probably didn't want you to do - like delete "bloatware" (unwanted apps).
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