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Old 01-27-2011, 07:16 PM
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Rooting with Unrevoked clear as mud

First you had to understand differences between Unrevoked3 and Unrevoked Forever.

Turns out Unrevoked3 includes Unrevoked Forever.

Unrevoked Forever is what does S-OFF (which basically opens you up to any mod any time).

Then I went to follow procedure (take your pick of the 100's) and the USB Drivers would not install on Windows 7 64bit. I ended up installing PdaNet 64bit to solve that.

Then I ran Unrevoked and it failed, saying too new.

So for grins, I tried again and it worked.

Then I had SuperUser but it kept prompting each time even though I said Remember. I ignored that for now.

Installed Titanuim Backup and it completely failed to run.

There is some known problems that Fix_Permissions is required. That was not installed by unrevoked. Not sure if this may have been red herring. And permmissions was already done or not.

Installed Terminal emulator to run Fix_Permissions. No where to be found.

Downloaded Fix_Permissions script and it would not run on SDCARD even with correct permissions.

Installed Rom Manager and Fix_Permissions also failed because the script was not installed.

Bought Root Explorer so I could make \system writeable so I could copy fix_permissions script to \system\bin.

fix_permissions would still not run because no BusyBox is installed. Found that in the "Manual" Root kit in sticky thread here. Then Ran Fix_Permissions and it ran but got lots of "cut" errors. Not sure what that means or if it's a problem.

Back to Titanium Backup it's working differently but now stuck in SU prompt loop.

Ran Super User manually to check version and is said a binary was out of date. I did that update and applications no longer prompt each time.

Titanium Backup now actually works.

What a freaken mess.

Unrevoked only does about 3/4 of the Job. Not sure if the "Not Supported" on new EVO's warning in sticky is related to some of the issues I stumbled on. My Version of firmware and hardware was listed as compatible with Unrevoked3.

If I flashed a custom ROM (which I have not done yet) the Custom ROM may have avoided some of these issues.

Geesh that was fun. One Click - Yeah right.
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