Hey guys i have just sent in my htc hero for repair and won't be back for a whlie and im sure most of you know how slow and sluggish the hero is stock. Im dying to have a faster phone, so what do you guys think i should do? root the loaner phone? can i unroot easily? If so can you provide me with directions on how to do this?
Personally, I would leave it alone. You don't want any issues with the phone not being returned in the same condition you got it in.
That being said, if you must have root on a temporary device, try using z4root, and use the Temporary Root option.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
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What can i do with a rooted captivate im trying to convince my self to root my phone but ive never done it before, but i dont know what i can do with it. can sombody give me som ideas
First try asking yourself if there's anything you CAN'T do on your phone that you would like to, then find out if that requires root. If you personally can't think of anything you want to do that requires root then why even bother?
ill try to think of stuff
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AT&T locks out non market apps.
So you'll need to root your phone if you want it.
I've spent some time on the forum trying to find an answer, but obviously that didnt happen.
I have my GS4G and want to just ROOT it without installing any rom to replace the firmware.
1. If i root my phone, can i do JUST that? or are there other steps after simply rooting that are considered important for the stability of my phone?
2. After i root my phone, will i still be able to do the kiesmini/OTA gingerbread *official* (not leaked) update?
My main reason for wanting to do this is for the bloatware and increasing performance, and to just have overall more 'control' (similar to the feeling of wiping a new computer from the manufacture's preloaded poop).
I have superoneclick v1.9.5. I used it as a test on my old MT3G, and installed the GingerYoshi rom, and all worked very well. I just dont want to brick my GS4G, as i paid full price D:.
sorry if this has been asked/answered, i try to play by the rules, but just didnt find my answer.
thanks,
Greg
Super one click root 1.7 was what I used. It just roots the phone, as any other rooting method should. You can get ota fine...I always did. Never had a problem.
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Just so you know there's no one-click root method for Gingerbread for the SGS4G yet. Maybe around the time the official ROM comes out there will be.
what does:
"error:more than one device"
mean?? That pops up when i hit root. I only have one phone connected to my PC.
I'm assuming its multiple instances of ADB running? Im not sure..
*EDIT* My mistake lol. still had my MT3G plugged in, my bad!
successfully rooted. Thanks
Hello all,
I am fairly new to android, the Epic is my first android phone purchased on launch day. But I am very new to HTC and the EVO Shift. I just purchased one for my wife. I was wondering if someone could point me to some instructions, or just give me some, on how to best install clockwork and a rom. Her phone came with the latest update. Basically I would prefer to remain stock with just root and wireless tether. If anyone could help me accomplish this I would greatly appreciate it.
You are going to have to look at the temp root thread that is right here in this forum since she is on the newest update. You are kind of limited to what you can do unless a permanent root solution is found. Wireless tether should work. I think you may be able to remove or freeze the bloat using somethin like titanium but it will probably come back when you reboot. Can't use any custom roms yet either...
crawrj said:
Hello all,
I am fairly new to android, the Epic is my first android phone purchased on launch day. But I am very new to HTC and the EVO Shift. I just purchased one for my wife. I was wondering if someone could point me to some instructions, or just give me some, on how to best install clockwork and a rom. Her phone came with the latest update. Basically I would prefer to remain stock with just root and wireless tether. If anyone could help me accomplish this I would greatly appreciate it.
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The only root that has been gained on the evo shift GB update is temproot no perm root yet so on a simple reboot you lose root, there is no recovery and no custom roms while temp rooted, there are a couple threads dedicated to this stuff here already
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strapped365 said:
The only root that has been gained on the evo shift GB update is temproot no perm root yet so on a simple reboot you lose root, there is no recovery and no custom roms while temp rooted, there are a couple threads dedicated to this stuff here already
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Yeah I knew there was only temp root but I saw some roms that were gingerbread with root. So I didn't understand how that was. I thought maybe if you could get clockwork installed with temp root you could still flash a rom. So are the gingerbread roms only for people on froyo? Can you downgrade to froyo and upgrade to the gingerbread rom? Also what do you use to flash roms. With samsung you have odin. What do you use on htc? I see mention of ruu but have seen nothing on how to use it or where to get it. Sorry for so many questions and being really new to this side of the pond.
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crawrj said:
Yeah I knew there was only temp root but I saw some roms that were gingerbread with root. So I didn't understand how that was. I thought maybe if you could get clockwork installed with temp root you could still flash a rom. So are the gingerbread roms only for people on froyo? Can you downgrade to froyo and upgrade to the gingerbread rom? Also what do you use to flash roms. With samsung you have odin. What do you use on htc? I see mention of ruu but have seen nothing on how to use it or where to get it. Sorry for so many questions and being really new to this side of the pond.
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Flashing clockworkMod while temp rooted isn't going to work, as soon as your phone tries to reboot you lose root. So you can't access Clockwork, which is how/where you flash ROMs. Currently there is no way to revert back to froyo, the new bootloaders do not recognize the froyo RUU. Basically until a perm root solution is found, temp root is the best you can do.
The ROMs that you see are for user that rooted while running froyo and never took the "official" update from HTC.
Did you buy your phone brand new or used? Go to settings about phone, software information.
If you have Android 2.2 you can root your phone. Otherwise you are screwed until HTC unlocks the bootloader.
VICODAN said:
Did you buy your phone brand new or used? Go to settings about phone, software information.
If you have Android 2.2 you can root your phone. Otherwise you are screwed until HTC unlocks the bootloader.
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He said brand new so that means it came with 2.3.3
OK I will wait patiently until perma root has been established. Thank you all for all of the information.
I have an HTC one 32 GB from at&t and love it,but want more out of it,however I have never rooted a phone I have only jailbroke my iPod and know that rooting is a lot more dangerous and don't know if I should risk it
Install Farmaroot - it should be the easiest way.
HTC One S is supported.
It is safe If you do everything correctly Do a lot of research and read how to do it before trying ! don't just jump into it !
But remember to root your phone you need to unlock your bootloader which voids your warranty ! and if you unlock your bootloader using HTCDev It's impossible to get your warranty back ! even if you relock the bootloader
so just make up your mind ! if i were you i would do it !
Depends on what you mean by getting more out of it, if you want to try out different roms then yeah, you'll definitely have to root it.
It's a lot more complicated with rooting versus jailbreaking however I'm sure you've got the technical know how, and as backbone said, just do your research and if you get lost/confused along the way, just ask on the forums.
I rooted my phone a week ago and it's worth it
and happy to have rooted my phone
it's WORTH IT
just make sure you see how to root the phone befor you try it
Do you want to uninstall stock apps? or run apps which need root permissions? do you want to change to an alternative rom?, ... then root the phone if not there is no need to root it
luckmonsoon said:
I have an HTC one 32 GB from at&t and love it,but want more out of it,however I have never rooted a phone I have only jailbroke my iPod and know that rooting is a lot more dangerous and don't know if I should risk it
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I would assume anyone considering rooting requires root for something they wanna do.
As long as you're safe and smart about it, I really see no reason not to. You don't lockdown your pc if you don't mess around in the system
I don't see a reaseon why would you root your htc one coz the phone works pretty good(optimization is great).
In other hand if you want to do developing or smth like that i would tell you to go for it.
luckmonsoon said:
I have an HTC one 32 GB from at&t and love it,but want more out of it,however I have never rooted a phone I have only jailbroke my iPod and know that rooting is a lot more dangerous and don't know if I should risk it
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xda-developers
You are on a developers site asking if you should root. I can almost guarantee that every answer will be yes.
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I rooted my evo about two years ago and now I am giving the phone to my mother to use, so I am trying to unroot it, but I can't seem to get in unrooted! I've been using the Complete unroot option on the SuperSU app, but it never seems to get it done. When I open it up, it says that the binary needs to be updated, but I can't seem to be able to do that either! HELP! I need the phone unrooted asap.
Hi,
You likely need to flash a RUU for your model to get back to stock. But for other ideas or help on that, you can ask here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865204
Good luck!