Help guys. I've been at this all, and I'm starting to pull my hair out. There are so many steps and guides, and it's just so confusing and frustrating. Doing X requires you to do Y first, but when you try to do Y, it tell you to do X first.
What I'm trying to achieve is to unlock my phone, debrand it, find a nice ROM (perhaps try Jellybean or Kitkat) and update the firmware to 3.3
So far, I've been able to HTC Dev unlock it, and apply S-Off. Now I'm trying to install Clockworkmod Recovery, but it says "You must root your phone. Superuser was not found".What the heck is rooting? What is Superuser? Is it the same thing? I tried to install SuperSU app, but it says your device must be rooted so I guess not! How the heck do I root my phone?
Please, can someone walk me through this? Talk to me like I'm a dummy.
Thanks.
I think I've got it figure out now.
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Wondering if its possible for someone to take this and root it?
http://pcdphones.com/downloads/935-adr6250_2-1_mr_cellcom-zip
Cellcom 2.1 update for the Hero...
Thanks
Here are a bunch of other small carrier updates for the hero as well
http://pcdphones.com/our-devices/support/adr6250update
Are you asking if someone can take the update, add root and upload it or root it as it is running on the phone? Either way it's super easy.
If you already have root on your phone and you want a flashable version with root built in, go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
and follow the instructions to install the kitchen, extract the rom, root, and anything else you wanna add and build and flash it.
If you are looking at rooting it on the phone, go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581869
and follow the instructions.
Either way you should have used that handy "Search This Forum" button in the main threads page.
hexskrew said:
Are you asking if someone can take the update, add root and upload it or root it as it is running on the phone? Either way it's super easy.
If you already have root on your phone and you want a flashable version with root built in, go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
and follow the instructions to install the kitchen, extract the rom, root, and anything else you wanna add and build and flash it.
If you are looking at rooting it on the phone, go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581869
and follow the instructions.
Either way you should have used that handy "Search This Forum" button in the main threads page.
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OK thanks for that.. I'm pretty savvy to the search feature. Been around the block a few times brotha.
I'm pretty sure since you have the answers you would know that I've tried that rooting method with won't work with the Cellcom Hero, the rooting method there you get the wrong bootloader error, the BL on the 1.6 hero is newer than the one you use in that rooting guide... I was unsuccessful in doing it.
And no, this phone/rom/carrier doesn't have root yet.
If it was something sooo easy I certainly would just do it.
What version of hboot does this phone ship with?
Have you tried that guide they linked to lately? That guide has been updated with a new method that should work on phones that shipped with 2.1
oh.. my bad dude. Didn't mean to be so hasty on my comments. We have had a few people posting pointless threads lately here.. This is rather odd though. Give us all the info on what's running on the phone and we can check out what we can do to resolve it.
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ok so i just got through rooting with unrevoked 3.x whatever one is the latest one they have on their site and it sayed that the root was successful. and when i opened up titanium backup it sayed that i was not rooted.
so what does this mean? did i mess a step or do i have to use unrevoked forever? all help is appreciated.
btw: i have flashed anything yet all stock accept for the supposed root...
*bump* come on guys im sure one of you has an answer to this.
just installed gingerbread on my htc desire hd. and now my root has gone. i know VISIONary wont work on this yet so is there any other way to gain root access??
Hard to say. Sometimes official updates are designed by the carrier along with the manufacturer to disable any root access. If it was an update that required a wipe first, then definitely root will be lost.
Sometimes it's better to find a ROM that has a great reputation for frequent updates and stick with them, however, if you've lost root thanks to the latest update then you may be waiting a while for someone to figure out how to root this latest update to your phone unless you made sure to get something on there like RA that will let you wipe the phone and restore from a previous nandroid backup.
Gingerbreak...
hey could u please explain to me how u installed the gingerbread on ur htc desire hd...i have an unrooted one so idk if its possible to install the new gingerbread RUU but my downgrading process keeps failing (CID Error). I've got my phone running on 1.84.720.3...if you could please help me I would really appreciate it.
However, I've read around the forum and people are claiming that you can reroot your phone with Gingerbreak. Im not sure exactly how..im really new to this but im sure you can find out how to use gingerbreak by searching for it...
c0balt83 said:
Hard to say. Sometimes official updates are designed by the carrier along with the manufacturer to disable any root access. If it was an update that required a wipe first, then definitely root will be lost.
Sometimes it's better to find a ROM that has a great reputation for frequent updates and stick with them, however, if you've lost root thanks to the latest update then you may be waiting a while for someone to figure out how to root this latest update to your phone unless you made sure to get something on there like RA that will let you wipe the phone and restore from a previous nandroid backup.
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i installed the update from a zip file on the net. it was the official update though and did require a wipe of user data and cache. it wont let me restore from my back up now as my clockmodrecovery has now gone kinda wishing i never updated, gingerbread isnt all that different anyway as htc have the htc sense face on top of android! hmmm!! what to do lol!!
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hey could u please explain to me how u installed the gingerbread on ur htc desire hd...i have an unrooted one so idk if its possible to install the new gingerbread RUU but my downgrading process keeps failing (CID Error). I've got my phone running on 1.84.720.3...if you could please help me I would really appreciate it.
However, I've read around the forum and people are claiming that you can reroot your phone with Gingerbreak. Im not sure exactly how..im really new to this but im sure you can find out how to use gingerbreak by searching for it...
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you mean the CID on making a gold card. how are you making the gold card?? with hex editing or with a software that does it for you?? i found i had the same problem so i used a hex editor, then worked first time. whats your email, i will send you all the links i used
finally got it to work. Now officially running gingerbread have u tried to gingerbreak? Also is there anyway to restore the applications from the SD card to the phone without the apk file?
well im not quite sure about the apps as i havent really messed around with it myself yet :/ i have tried doing the gingerbreak but came across a few problems, but i will carry on and keep trying how did you manage to sort your CID issue??
Yeah finally got the goldcard to work haven't tried to gingerbreak yet...not sure if its worth rooting since I already have gingerbread with sense running...any reason I should root?
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so i've read so many forums, done everything i can, every method, but to no avail; im still not able to root my htc raider. the most recent forum i came across, which supposedly the simplest and easiest method to root my phone, is this " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498003 " i thought the video was supposedly a step by step tutorial, but not as much as i expected it to be. because of my previous attempt before using this toolkit, i was only able to unlock the bootloader, so i skiped the part were u have to do it. i went straight to flashing the cwm and was successful. with that, i was able to use backup/restore. then i went to permroot and all i got from the command promt was adb stuff out of date. i thought maybe i have to flash my kernel so i did. but then i got stock on the htc logo. can anyone plz help me
anyone... Im really desperate here
I could seriously use some help....
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JohnL_83 said:
anyone... Im really desperate here
I could seriously use some help....
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your best superguide for holiday http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024
I attempted to root my phone and thought I'd done it properly, but Root Checker app says root is not properly installed. Also the apps that needed root access still don't have it. HOWEVER, my work e-mail app has been revoked because it detected that my phone is rooted.
SO... I decided to give up on the whole rooting process since I need my work e-mail app. So as I understand I need to flash my phone back to original factory settings using the RUU. During that process, it kept getting hung up with a 155 error and wouldn't let me proceed. Yes, I relocked bootloader.
So it seems I'm not completely rooted and not unrooted and can't make any progress. Can anyone please help me in layman's terms? Please understand I'm a novice so please do easy with the acronyms and stuff. Thanks in advance!