Maybe Im an idiot but Im trying to follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996616 to root my thunderbolt and have no idea what im doing with ADB.
I tried reading that ADB workshop but Im still lost. Adb wont seem to let me do anything. Even a simple command to list the connected devices results in a permission denied error. Is there a step by step instruction or video for rooting the thunderbolt that actually includes the EXACT commands needed to do this successfully rather than assuming that people are familiar with the various commands and quirks of ADB?
I've manually and one click rooted other phones before but the most complex it got was mounting my sd card in windows, copying over some files and then rebooting the phone into recovery mode.
Why is this phone's rooting process so over the top complex?
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hello. ive been reading on different forums on the best way to sideload apps on captivate on mac. ive read about sideload wonder machine but seems ppl have problems... seems ppl r being more successful on pc.... if i were to run parallels then win 7 and try to use sideload wonder machine on pc will it work? im still reading on how to use commands, and terminals and cmd lines and all that . im new to android but familiar with winmo phones and jailbreaking iphones. so if anyone can help me or point me to the right direction, it is greatly appreciated! on a side note, i use parallel's and ran win 7 and dl droid explorer to try and delete some at&t bloatware but no go. when i try to delete it nothing happens... so i dont know what to do! lol. im rooted and all. i wanna have sideload next! thanks again guys!
1. Install Android SDK for Mac
2. Using Terminal CD to android-SDK/Tools directory
3. place your apk file in the tools directory
4. In terminal type: adb install file.apk <where file.apk is what you want to install>
This is the manual way on windows and this is what sideload wonder does for you. If you want to learn - this is the best way to start. ADB is easy, and it opens up the gateway for everything else.
YOu can probably find a more detailed tutorial on using ADB commands in Mac.
ADB is what lets you copy system files off the phone, change permissions, get access to the systems.db where you can allow sideload from phone, etc.
I have tried everything to get a one click solution to enable non-market apps. First and foremost I am on a MAC. No access to a windows machine. I have my phone rooted and have installed superuser status.
I am looking for a solution that will let me install (easily) non- market applications. There appears to be several solutions doing this on a windows machine. I have not been able to find a solution on a MAC. And instructions, help, videos anything is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
PS: not a total nube, but I have limited knowledge of the root directory and manipulation, but follow instructions well ........
What firmware are you on? Because if you are on the leaked 2.2 you should look on the leaked ji6 hacks forum page and it will give you the instructions that you can run in adb shell in the terminal application on a mac you just have to type ./adb (command) where windows users just have to type adb (command) you should make sure that you are comfortable on adb though because there are hardly any tutorials for adb on a mac around. I found that the hard way. Hope this helps, if you still can't figure it out post more info and I will do my best to help although I am still kinda a noob to android development.
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Thank for the help, I will look at thie ji6 hack and see if it works. I'll let you know. Right now I have spent 3 days trying to unlock this pile of dung. ATT should be shot for doing this people. We bought the phone let us put what we want on it. PERIOD
Have you tried ADB? If you can get ADB to work, you should have the skill to copy over the settings.db and use the SQLeditor for Firefox plugin. Or use SQLite on the phone.
Read up on how to enable sideloading - the same commands that work on windows work on a mac - or very similar. As long as you know how to copy files in terminal you should be set.
Hey guys. First of all, sorry I couldn't post this in Devs, still new so I'm not able to.
My question is this: I was having a ton of trouble making a gold card while the sd card was in my phone (could never for the life of me get that 'really long number', so now I'm trying it on my pc. I know the commands for getting the number through my phone, but what are the commands to do it through my computer? Basically what I'm asking is with the whole 'adb shell cat /sys..." will that remain the same or will it be different to get that number?
I'm not TOO new to rooting/flashing as I've done it many times on my Captivate, but then again, rooting/flashing with the Captivate was pretty noob-friendly. Thanks in advance guys!
EDIT: Just to let you guys know about the problems I was having when I was trying to do it through my phone (maybe somebody can point something out that I missed?): I have SDK installed. Formatted SD card (fat32). Turned USB debugging on, plugged in phone, downloaded and extracted hack kit (not sure if location matters but it was something like C:/Inspire Root/...), shift+right clicked on the win folder to open command prompt, and then typed in the commands per the README and kept getting error: device not found. I've searched for this error, but to be honest, everyone who had the same problem didn't get an answer back that really helped. I know for a fact that I'm missing something, just don't know what it is. At first I was ok not being able to make a goldcard, but I read that a goldcard will still be needed to take advantage of the easier way of rooting that's in the works. Any help would greatly be appreciated
Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong when I try to root my nexus 5?
I've followed the many similar cf-autoroot instructions I've found online, but to be honest, I think that there must be some prerequisite steps I need to do before I can actually root.
Here's what I've done so far: I've downloaded the ADT bundle and installed the 4.4 SDK and recommended tools. I've also downloaded the cf auto root files and have them saved on my desktop. However, when I enter chmod +x root-mac.sh into terminal it says command not found. When I simply try to open the file from finder it opens the script in text editor, which obviously does nothing. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Everything i have seen online make it look so easy, but I'm getting nowhere... Could someone please help me figure this out?
Have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2515640
Using a toolkit my be useful if you're not sure of things, but obviously caution is still advised if you aren't sure what you are doing.
I used this with absolutely no problems. I was originally looking forward to manually inputting the commands in terminal just to get familiar with it but saw the Android icon. in my curiosity I clicked it and it started the process for me. Took a couple of minutes.
It's done on Mac just like it's done on ANY os.
You need fastboot and adb in your PATH or you need to have all the files in the same directory.
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Okay. I have been trying to do other things with rooting other phones besides my HTC Rezound. I've rewritten a exploit so it will work on Mac. But this is a general problem. I deleted the Emulator and every single thing but the platform-tools on the windows side of my computer. So the only thing I have on my computer is the platform-tools folder (aka fastboot and adb) So I have tried what almost every forum has said. The adb kill-server. I restart it. Still there. I've tried to individually kill it still there. I've unplugged my device and ran adb still there. The Emulator is Port 5554 offline. I can't get it to come online, I have spent hours trying to kill it. This is one reason that stopped me from rooting on a windows because this stupid emulator won't go away and it never has. I've never ran eclipse on the windows side or to say that never anything but the adb and fastboot. Only the Mac side have I done other things. Please if anyone could help that would be nice. It'd save me time from having to take the .bat files and changing them to sh files and opening with text edit, editing the file to work with terminal, then sh run the file and it not work then back to the drawing board which after rewriting some stuff over and over is a miracle to see it finally execute the exploit. Thanks for any help. I would gratefully appreciate it. Thanks. This is the also what's from keeping me going s-off to. It's annoying and I would really love to fix the issue. I will take any advice. Just saying though the adb kill-server and a lot of other commands are not working and not doing the process. Please anyone who would like to help. Just put anything :$ Please and Thank you.
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