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[Q] Rooting

I have searched for this and recieved some many posts I was over whelmed.
My problem is this, I have downloaded DoomLord v4 and have followed the instructions for what to do on my phone. So my USB debugging is enabled, Unknown Sources is enabled and even changed the screen timeout to 10 minutes. But when the process starts it gets to daemon started successfully and then just sits there forever.
Has anyone else experianced this and if so did you resolove it?
I have android version 2.3.5.

No I used it and didn't have that problem but I'm sure someone will have a answer for you
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Still curious if anyone has a solution
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Main problems I've seen; don't have the proper adb drivers installed and trying to execute the "runme.bat" file as "Administrator"; alot of problems, at least on Win7. I would verify drivers, then to be safe, just drop to a DOS prompt, go to the directory and run the "runme.bat" file.

Yea I just realized I didn't get the USB drivers to install correctly. When I connect my phone and point it to the folder the drivers are it doesn't find any available drivers. Not sure I am trying this on my XP computer are work. Going to go home in a hour or so and try it there as well maybe it will work better on my win 7 64 bit system
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ok well just tried to install the usb drivers on my windows 7 64bit system and it says the samething as the xp system. That it didn't find any drivers available. Oh well guess I am just not ment to root my phone, glad I am doing it just for fun and not cause I am having any problems with it lol

Well I didn't stop researching after all cause well I dont like giving up on something like that.
I was able to take the drivers from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
and then followed this thread to root my Skyrocket http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
now I think I need to get a rom manager to install cwm so I can start using custom roms?
If I decide not to use custom roms can I use titanium back up pro to freeze apps in order to extended my battery life?
Can I do something to change my boot animation?
What exactly can I do with root now to customize my phone even more with out installing a custom rom?

oh also do I need to keep unknown sourses and usb debugging checked now that I am rooted?
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Yes keep it on it will be helpful in future!!!!
Unknown sources allows you to get paid app online and run it!!!
USB Debugging: Well you can turn it off but it will help in future if you fuc*** up ur phone you can try to get it back by adb!!!!!!
noobtesting said:
oh also do I need to keep unknown sourses and usb debugging checked now that I am rooted?
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[Q] Windows 8 64-bit Drivers not working

Just wiped all data off my phone before flashing CyanogenMod 10. Problem is, I need to reboot into the bootloader so I can flash the boot.img since I have the 2.20 AT&T update. But I can't get my computer to recognize my phone in fastboot mode. I'm using Windows 8 64-bit, and I've tried multiple threads with Win8 64-bit drivers, and installing the drivers with signature verification disabled. I'm at a loss, hope you guys can help, since I can't turn my phone on until this gets fixed.

bikeracer4487 said:
Just wiped all data off my phone before flashing CyanogenMod 10. Problem is, I need to reboot into the bootloader so I can flash the boot.img since I have the 2.20 AT&T update. But I can't get my computer to recognize my phone in fastboot mode. I'm using Windows 8 64-bit, and I've tried multiple threads with Win8 64-bit drivers, and installing the drivers with signature verification disabled. I'm at a loss, hope you guys can help, since I can't turn my phone on until this gets fixed.
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Not familiar with windows 8,but if the computer recognises the phone why not just downgrade your hboot with Jet,then you want have to flash the boot image.

ken bentley said:
Not familiar with windows 8,but if the computer recognises the phone why not just downgrade your hboot with Jet,then you want have to flash the boot image.
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Whoa whoa whoa. Downgrading the hboot is POSSIBLE. Holy frick, if this is true, I might hate myself for not discovering this sooner...
EDIT: The toolkit requires running Linux (which I don't have and am not real comfortable with) and involves hard bricking the phone...think I'll keep my hboot for now. Needing to flash the boot.img is kind of annoying, but it wasn't a big deal until I could no longer get fastboot to work...

bikeracer4487 said:
Whoa whoa whoa. Downgrading the hboot is POSSIBLE. Holy frick, if this is true, I might hate myself for not discovering this sooner...
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Lol yes it is possible, all you need is ubuntu on your computer. I tried it out myself and it worked great

bikeracer4487 said:
Whoa whoa whoa. Downgrading the hboot is POSSIBLE. Holy frick, if this is true, I might hate myself for not discovering this sooner...
EDIT: The toolkit requires running Linux (which I don't have and am not real comfortable with) and involves hard bricking the phone...think I'll keep my hboot for now. Needing to flash the boot.img is kind of annoying, but it wasn't a big deal until I could no longer get fastboot to work...
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I can tell you its easy once you boot into linux,I was a complete novice with unbuntu and I got it to work,I spent a bit of time reading up on using the commands and it went like a breeze.

utkaar099 said:
Lol yes it is possible, all you need is ubuntu on your computer. I tried it out myself and it worked great
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Well, I can make a LiveCD easy enough, so I might still try it. But I'd still prefer to find a fix for the fastboot drivers, since I'd still be unable to use fastboot after downgrading the hboot.

ken bentley said:
I can tell you its easy once you boot into linux,I was a complete novice with unbuntu and I got it to work,I spent a bit of time reading up on using the commands and it went like a breeze.
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I'm actually fairly competent in the unix terminal, thanks to using a Mac at work for a while, it's more the danger of hard bricking my phone that scares me.

Well the only thing I could find was this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775870
But that's meant for the international One X so I'm pretty positive that it may not work on our device...

utkaar099 said:
Well the only thing I could find was this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775870
But that's meant for the international One X so I'm pretty positive that it may not work on our device...
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Well, thanks for the tip, but that's one of the drivers I tried.

I had same problem and i have solved installing HTC Sync Manager and PdaNet

EmeraldTimer said:
I had same problem and i have solved installing HTC Sync Manager and PdaNet
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PdaNet? From what a can find it seems to only work as a tethering app...

EmeraldTimer said:
I had same problem and i have solved installing HTC Sync Manager and PdaNet
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+1 HTC sync is your friend when you have drivers issues.
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barondebxl said:
+1 HTC sync is your friend when you have drivers issues.
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Yeah, like I said, HTC Sync didn't solve my problem for whatever reason.
However, it occurred to me that I've never had to worry about Android drivers with Mac and Linux, and I was able to use fastboot without a problem from a Ubuntu LiveCD, without resorting to downgrading my hboot. Granted it meant downloading and configuring the android tools in Ubuntu, and I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis, but it's okay as a workaround, and this whole fiasco has me seriously considering switching my laptop to Ubuntu from Win8 (I could dual-boot), but I don't really have enough disk space for 2 operating systems).

bikeracer4487 said:
Yeah, like I said, HTC Sync didn't solve my problem for whatever reason.
However, it occurred to me that I've never had to worry about Android drivers with Mac and Linux, and I was able to use fastboot without a problem from a Ubuntu LiveCD, without resorting to downgrading my hboot. Granted it meant downloading and configuring the android tools in Ubuntu, and I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis, but it's okay as a workaround, and this whole fiasco has me seriously considering switching my laptop to Ubuntu from Win8 (I could dual-boot), but I don't really have enough disk space for 2 operating systems).
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Did you uninstall whatever HTC drivers you had before installing HTC sync?
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I have windows 8 and when I first got my one x I installed PDANet and HTC Sync Manager. That should solve the driver issue. PDANet pretty much fills in the gap for drivers no matter what phone.
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Ok I had same issue when I was beta testing win 8 in Summer. You need to go to device manager and click the show hidden devices on menu bar. It will show you all devices not plugged in. Next find andriod , it should be greyed out. If you don't find install win 64 bit driver. It will still not recongize android when plugged in so click greyed out android and choose Manuel update. Then click browse for driver and go into win 64 drivers and manually choose. There is a lot of utube and other tutorials if you Google manuel install HTC drivers for win 8. Hope this helps ya. Let me know how it worked out
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i hav got it
:highfive: i had the same problem and that vista drivers worked will
her you go but i couldn't the link as ber the rule To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages. After approximately 10 posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thank you for understanding!
but you may find it on androiddrivers if you search you will find it in How to Root HTC One X! pleas share the link her so the other find it

I was able to get mine working with the combo of
1. uninstalling any HTC sync or sync manager and the HTC BMP USB Driver. Basically anything HTC.
2. Install HTC sync. Not sync manager. Go to the HTC support page and you'll see both listed. If you go to the specific phone support page it might not be there. (One S doesn't have the sync program, just sync manager iirc.)
3. Download PDAnet. When installing, It'll give a warning that you already have drivers installed and ask if you want to fix them or leave as is. I chose it to fix and it went though its process and I had working drivers after that.
I think this was already suggested before. I going back and giving thanks wherever due after this post. (On the mobile app right now)
Other easy way if you're using a One S is to download Hasoon2000's All-On-One Toolkit. He's updated the drivers for windows 8. I haven't tried it yet as mine are working so haven't had the need. I would assume his tool for any of the other phones he supports would have the updated drivers too.

Rooting possible with a command terminal?

Just got my nexus 5. Went to get my laptop only to find out its been stolen. Is there a way to root using the command terminal in say jumpy apps?
I'd hate to have to buy a Laptop just to root this phone. The root browser seems to allow access to all the relevant files. Anyone tried this?
Thanks.
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Afaik, you'll need a pc to unlock the bootloader. From there I suppose you could do the rest on the phone using dd commands to get a recovery on. But since you'll need the pc anyway you might as well use it to get the recovery on.

How do you go to get your laptop to find out its stolen? Lol
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You will need a PC with working adb connection to unlock the bootloader

vin4yak said:
You will need a PC with working adb connection to unlock the bootloader
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Actually, you'll need fastboot working, not adb. They're different

Ben36 said:
How do you go to get your laptop to find out its stolen? Lol
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Don't put up "long lost ex girlfriends, who turn up with sob stories!"
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Why don't you just borrow someone's pc or go to a internet cafe?

You could always try a library. All you need to do is download fastboot, run "fastboot oem unlock" and reboot. You can then do the rest on your phone. It shouldn't take you longer than 10 minutes.

ADB and Fastboot go hand and hand from my knowledge. Even a slim non full version SDK still has ADB .
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jball said:
ADB and Fastboot go hand and hand from my knowledge.
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What do you mean "hand in hand"?
They're both command line platform tools offered in the android SDK but thats about all they have in common. One is a minimalistic "linux shell" for interacting with the android kernel (adb) where as the other is a tool that manages the fastboot functions of the bootloader.

rootSU said:
What do you mean "hand in hand"?
They're both command line platform tools offered in the android SDK but thats about all they have in common. One is a minimalistic "linux shell" for interacting with the android kernel (adb) where as the other is a tool that manages the fastboot functions of the bootloader.
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So are you saying you don't have to have ADB to use Fastboot ?
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jball said:
So are you saying you don't have to have ADB to use Fastboot ?
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Correct.
You will need to have USB drivers, of course to use fastboot, which are often referred to as "adb drivers" but not the adb binary/exe itself

Dakura said:
Why don't you just borrow someone's pc or go to a internet cafe?
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Last Internet cafe closes here and pale think rooting will damage their LT! The ones I asked.
I only posted this out of desperation. Library computers are locked up so can't accept drivers.
I've been rooting since the early days and I did a Samsung g2 without a computer. The boot was open. I just put the su, etc on the card and rooted it. As it was pre owned not sure if it had been unlocked or was like that from new. I've come from the nexus 4 mainly because of 4g.
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howard bamber said:
Last Internet cafe closes here and pale think rooting will damage their LT! The ones I asked.
I only posted this out of desperation. Library computers are locked up so can't accept drivers.
I've been rooting since the early days and I did a Samsung g2 without a computer. The boot was open. I just put the su, etc on the card and rooted it. As it was pre owned not sure if it had been unlocked or was like that from new. I've come from the nexus 4 mainly because of 4g.
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Do you have another device that supports USB OTG? It can do everything the laptop can with ADB and fastboot. The ADB binary is shipped with android, you'll just need the ARM fastboot binary.
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Just another mobile but it's mtk. Thought of that
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Rooting nexus 5 using adb

I need to root my wife's new nexus 5 using adb and fastboot. I had done this on my own nexus 5 but no longer remember the details. I don't even remember whether I should look for Flo or grouper!
This is a new nexus 5, running Android 4.4.2 build number Kot49H
I have adb and fastboot installed on my windows 7 pc from when I booted my own nexus 5 and 7.
What do I need to update? From where?
I want to use TWRP recovery.
What do I download, from where, to where?
What are the exact steps I need to take?
Thank you.

Hi,
Read this thread carefully for step by step instructions!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905

Anderson2 said:
I need to root my wife's new nexus 5 using adb and fastboot. I had done this on my own nexus 5 but no longer remember the details. I don't even remember whether I should look for Flo or grouper!
This is a new nexus 5, running Android 4.4.2 build number Kot49H
I have adb and fastboot installed on my windows 7 pc from when I booted my own nexus 5 and 7.
What do I need to update? From where?
I want to use TWRP recovery.
What do I download, from where, to where?
What are the exact steps I need to take?
Thank you.
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Read the link posted above mine, its VERY easy once you read the directions step by step. I mean easy, and I consider myself a noob.
Also, this is the Hammerhead device, not grouper or Flo, those are Nexus 7's

I just did that on my new Nexus 5 and wrote down everything I did to remind myself. Here's the web page: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/nexus5/nexus5.html#Rooting

Is it hammerhead.Img that I need?
Not Flo or grouper?

Yeah, hammerhead is the one you want.
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Whatever you do don't flash flo or grouper!
You have saved a kitten by using ADB instead of a toolkit, senior members are proud of you.

mistahseller said:
Whatever you do don't flash flo or grouper!
You have saved a kitten by using ADB instead of a toolkit, senior members are proud of you.
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I'd be hugely impressed if he could root using adb alone
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just as a sidenote.. you do not root using adb, adb isnt used at all. you root using fastboot. its not the same as adb, nor is it part of it.

I always unlock bootloader manually I find easier and saves time
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simms22 said:
just as a sidenote.. you do not root using adb, adb isnt used at all. you root using fastboot. its not the same as adb, nor is it part of it.
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noted Didn't even think about the terminology

Could not have gone any smoother.
Thank you all and a great thank you to comminus and his excellent guide!

Anderson2 said:
Could not have gone any smoother.
Thank you all and a great thank you to comminus and his excellent guide!
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once you figure it out that first time, itll take like 4-5 minutes to root your next nexus

mistahseller said:
Whatever you do don't flash flo or grouper!
You have saved a kitten by using ADB instead of a toolkit, senior members are proud of you.
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I've had no end of trouble when I rooted my first two devices using toolkits. It took days and tons of driver anguish before I succeeded. Then I discovered adb and fastboot and it became a quick few minutes thing to do. I really don't know why they make these toolkits. My experience with them is that they made things harder, not easier, for a newbie. The memories of the toolkit problems is what got me anxious when I had to start rooting my wife's phone.
Anyway a great thank you to all who took the time to help.

simms22 said:
just as a sidenote.. you do not root using adb, adb isnt used at all. you root using fastboot. its not the same as adb, nor is it part of it.
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Technically, the rooting is done via recovery
But yes that was my point - although I had to put the word "alone" at the end of my sentence because you could boot into recovery and adb push the su binaries
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[Q] Root Nexus 5 Issue

I am trying to root my N5 with Chainfire but when I attempt the final step it says "fastboot-windows.exe" is not recognized as a internal,external or operable program or batch file."
Phone is unlocked.
Thanks for any help.

Hi,
I would strongly suggest you to follow this guide to root your device! : http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905

vin4yak said:
Hi,
I would strongly suggest you to follow this guide to root your device! : http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
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Thanks so much!

Cf -auto root
Hittman73 said:
I am trying to root my N5 with Chainfire but when I attempt the final step it says "fastboot-windows.exe" is not recognized as a internal,external or operable program or batch file."
Phone is unlocked.
Thanks for any help.
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Chainfire released CF-Auto-Root ,CF-Auto-Root can be thought of as “root for rooting beginners,” as well as those who want to stay as close to stock as possible while enjoying the sweet, root-enabled goods.
CF-Auto-Root for the Nexus 5 supports Windows, Linux, and Mac, and turns the whole rooting process into an incredibly simple process. All you have to do is download the zip from the thread and extract it, boot your device into fastboot (power off, then VolUp+VolDown+Power), connect via USB, run a command on your host computer, and follow the on-screen prompts on your device and PC.:good:

And....You never learn fastboot commands and when you get into real trouble you're at a lost and it makes it real difficult for someone to try and help you
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jd1639 said:
And....You never learn fastboot commands and when you get into real trouble you're at a lost and it makes it real difficult for someone to try and help you
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Agreed. Plus, being rooted without custom recovery is not a good idea.
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rootSU said:
Agreed. Plus, being rooted without custom recovery is not a good idea.
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Why not.?
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Nocturin said:
Why not.?
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Because root opens up the door for you to screw things up. Recovery allows you to do backups so you can recover from these screw ups.
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