"Rooting" for the Droid Eris

[acdc_rulz]

Hey - does anyone know when/if a rooting kit will be put together for this phone? Figured out how to get into the boot loader screen (power on the phone holding down the Power and Send buttons). Loving this phone so far...former XV6900 user and the Moto Droid just didn't do it for me.

[aleis]

Im on the hunt myself.
ordered mine last night on wirefly for $49
got a list of apps i want (http://www.pcworld.com/article/18163...u_started.html)
and already plotted out the some apps to replace my current winmo stock.ch
yes, i am a former winmo guy making the switch. google got the memo in terms of a smart phone OS. i dont want to run out of space i understand i need to root my eris.
cant wait to support picks up for this "slept" on device.

[angel12]

Might want to check around the sprint hero forums, see where they are at with rooting, because the eris and the hero are basically the same phones.

[aleis]

agreed, considering i`ll have the warranty for some time i can go ahead and break it a few times testing

[pjsockett]

-Not sure if this works or not as I haven't been able to exchange my TP2 for the Eris yet but if anyone wants to try and report back.

http://theunlockr.com/2009/11/07/how...print-verizon/+

[acdc_rulz]

Tried the link's instructions (above) on my HTC Eris (Verizon) using Android SDK 1.5R1. When I get to step 6:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
I get the following error message:
“mount: Operation not permitted”



Anyone have any success on the HTC Eris?


Thanks.

[aleis]

wont have mine until tues/weds.

[binny1070]

Anyone have any luck so far?

[angel12]

Originally Posted by acdc_rulz

Tried the link's instructions (above) on my HTC Eris (Verizon) using Android SDK 1.5R1. When I get to step 6:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
I get the following error message:
“mount: Operation not permitted”



Anyone have any success on the HTC Eris?


Thanks.

Try using sdk 1.6
But thats the same error i get on my motodroid, but i didnt really expect it to work on the mdroid anyways just trying it out

EDIT: and can you post your entire output when you run through the guide?

[acdc_rulz]

Tried this again with SDK 1.6 - same result. Here is the output from my second attempt at doing this (really seems like whatever exploit asroot2
took advantage of was stopped in this firmware release for the HTC Eris). When trying to run this script via the shell, all that happens is that it is killed - not good).

Output:
C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb push asroot2 /data/local/
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
665 KB/s (74512 bytes in 0.109s)

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools>adb shell
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
[1] Killed /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
$ mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
$