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ok i'm getting board tried it again same problem. I forgot to mention that it recieved the ota update on saturday. How long is it suppose to take? I grew impatiant after 7minutes this time and held the Pwr + vol. up. Now I have in a blue menu and below it in yellow E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command.
OPtion 2 says sdcard:update.zip however I rooted my phone with the unrevoked apk |
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@Fast-Dammit! I go thru the trouble of, ya know, using my brain and stuff and kinda sorta figure out this root thing. Then here you are with this incredibly clear, concise, awesome post. You Sir, owe me a bottle of Excedrin Migraine.
:) Thank you! This is great, I'm ready to jump in now. re: App2SD- There's a very good chance I'm wrong but I *think* that is a feature of Froyo. Just root or root and OMJ's ROM may not be enough?? Happy to be proven wrong on that. |
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Thanks for the reply... i didnt use unrevoked i used your method on page one. Should I still be getting the msg to install ota? if I do will it mess anything up? Also, why dont i have the little ninja monkey? this is all i have that wasnt there b4 the root. (its the little blue and white # symbol) http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...607_055124.png when I click the # symbol this is what comes up... nothing. http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...607_055131.png is it normal for this to be blank? (ignore the bottom right thats just from the phone lagging a little when it rotated.) (screen shots taken using shoot me its in the marketplace for free... check it out) |
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so anyone getting apps to save to and launch via storage card yet?
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1 - Root again using a method that works w/ OTA 2 - Do all the other steps required if you want to install custom roms again (recovery, Nand backup, etc) Also, there is a way to turn off that feature so it stops checking for the OTA. I did it when I first got my phone, but now I can't find it. Some setting somewhere needs to be changed to Manual check for updates. The blue "Superuser Permissions" icon is exactly what you should see. Keep in mind I just learned about Android on Friday. I'm no expert by any means. As far as I know, you don't actually do anything w/ that icon other than open it to get info about what apps you've given access too. If you try to do the wifi tethering using this app, wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.zip, which works flawlessly BTW, when you first start the wifi, it will ask if you want to grant permissions to the program. I selected "Always Allow" and now if I go to the Superuser Permissions icon, I see info about the wifi tethering app. I don't know what it means, but the info is there. I don't know what the ninja monkey is? Are you referring to the icon for Advanced Task Killer? It's a free app in the store. Check their icon and let me know if that's it. Quote:
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From my personal experience with custom roms on Windows, I tend to wait for a couple chef's to start using a build before I decide to try it. At least I know when it becomes popular most of the kinks are worked out. My "goto" chef is OMJ. I know he's new to Android, but the stuff he did to make my Touch and Touch Diamond last longer was amazing. He tends to error on the cautious side. So if he post a rom w/ Froyo, you can pretty much bet it's working very well. The way things on are moving on the Evo, I'm sure any day now we'll start seeing several 2.2 roms. If you don't want to wait, you can install the existing Froyo rom they have on xda. I'm not sure what issues it has though. BTW - If I throw up a smoke signal, I think you'll see it, looks like we're neighbors. |
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Cool, so I see I can root even though I installed the OTA. I have a few text messages that I need to keep though.
Can anyone tell me how to backup my text messages so that I don't lose them when I root? I am not even seeing a way to copy and paste them into a document or anything. Any Android vets know how I can go about saving them to the SD card, or emailing them somehow, or somehow sync them to the cloud, or even copy them to my computer? |
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very nice tutorial FastRX8!!! you have it spelled out perfectly. I thought about making one for linux users, but it's a big can of worms.
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what custom recovery are there that can be installed, i am rooted using flipz rom, but if i do the vol down and power i get the same recovery that i have to be connected to pc to use.
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It is not lost with the unrevoked method - I can attest to that. If I knew enough about this, I'd start the thread - but I am a little lost as to the differences. I went unrevoked because my device was OTA updated. |
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FYI, I found this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.bobarctor.smsbackup It puts all of your text messages into gmail. So if you have something you don't want to lose, this will let you keep it. You can set it to do automatic backups of your SMS into gmail too, so kind of cool. |
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i follow the steps above for the recovery and my evo wont go into rcovery mode dont know if im doing something wrong or not very frustrating is there an easier way:cussing:
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Can you give some more details as to what's happening? I can try to help you, but I need to know what you're doing on the phone/pc and what's happening when you do those things. |
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typed all the commands step by step it goes thru the prosess but my phone wont go into recovery it wont even sync now so i dont know been at this for like an hour im 2 seconds away from smashing this phone
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unrevoked is by far the easiset way to root
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Don't call from the EVO though :| |
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Here's what I had him do; Power off the phone. Hold "Down Volume" while you power the phone back on. The screen that appears will have a few options. Select "Recovery." Then you should go to the screen w/ the EVO and the /!\ on it. Connect the phone to your pc and run the "recovery-windows.bat" file. Step #8 from the recovery section of the 1st post. Let me know if that works. |
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:toothy7:And thx again for ur help:toothy7:
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Now update your device info :razz: |
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EDIT: I did install the OTA update. Do you think the OTA update kills the recovery? |
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I am a bit leery of trying to install a custom until I get this squared away. Not a super big deal, phone is great as is, but someday I might get bored. |
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I'm stuck in the same spot, it just stays there. i open the file, it pops up for a second and goes away. and now when i turn my phone on, and try to sync the phone, it doesnt even try anymore, it didnt do this until i tried to get recovery working. i had no trouble with getting recovery to work on my hero :-\
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all you guys trying to get recovery working do understand this is not a sticky recovery (yet) Everytime you want to access recovery mode you will have to use adb to boot to recovery, then use that bat file once that red triangle pops up.
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yeah, so i'd like to know that if i wanna do this, it will work.
after trying to get this recovery to work, my computer doesn't recognize my phone at all :-\ |
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Maybe that recovery is just compatible with the unrevoked method (or at least on phones that nstalled the OTA). |
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well i did the unrevoked method, but i decided to go ahead and do toasts method. i'm stuck here:
"6) When you select bootloader, it will show you more options. Don't pick anything at this time, just wait. It will read your storage card. This takes about 30secs and there is a progress bar on the top right. It's reading the PC36IMG.zip file you placed on the card." its been sitting here for 5 minutes and its not asking me anything about updating or anything. any sugestions? EDIT: i coppied everything to my 8 gig card that they gave me, and now the rooting part is working, weird... |
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BTW, what does rooting; giving yourself superuser/administrator access to your own phone have to do with "Selling Pirated Software on Craigslist"? -CC |
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im another user having trouble with the "windows-recovery.bat" portion. i ran command prompt with admin rights, ran the adb recovery command and got to the screen with red triangle and exclamation point.
i have rooted using unrevoked as well and attached is the error i get when trying to run "windows-recovery.bat" am i missing something? |
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Okay, so I guess the question is:
Has anyone actually been successful with the recovery if they rooted using the unrevoked method, on a device that has the OTA update? I'm seeing a lot of people that couldn't get it to work (me being one of them). I am seeing people say it worked for them, but I haven't seen anyone specify that they were using the unrevoked method on a device that has the OTA installed. |
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Just to see what would happen, I did the OTA and used unrevoked on her phone. When I tried to go to recovery, I had the same issue. I disconnected the phone, rebooted the pc, then connected the phone using HTC Sync and tried the .bat file again and it worked. Then I was able to flash OMJ's rom. Quote:
Basically you flash the latest signed rom, then you flash the original signed rom. Then you're back to square 1. Just follow my directions afterwards. FYI - I'm recording a video of this process. Will be up later tonight hopefully. |
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