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Root [Application] Eris Master Application [R00T]

roscuthiii said:
Of course I'm stuck at work so I'll have to give the master application a shot at being my best friend candidate once I get home.

I forget where I'd heard about that Evo root thing (possibly phonearena)... but the screenshot made it look so simple even I couldn't mess it up. Pretty much a box with 3 buttons: Do you want root? Do you want NAND backup? Do you want a custom ROM?
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Don't tell all the 2.1 leakers trying the new (timing-related/tricky) rooting method about how easy it is for the Evo...they'll riot in the streets :eek:

I'm hoping the Droid X gets rooted fairly easily and quickly...I've got my eyes on this new Droid (no, I won't forget about my trusty Eris...its a great phone, after all :D).
 
I'll try to keep silent... poor leakers.

If I ever get root working on my Eris I think I'll be able to hold off on anything new for a while... awhile = Android 3.x + 2 Ghz + LTE

However I'm really tempted by the Droid X and even the Droid 2
 
I have done steps 1 2 & 3. Not sure what 3 accomplished...

My question is if I load a custom ROM do I lose HTS Sense?

Also before I started I was 2.1 OTA, do I now have a different version of 2.1?

I am kind of new at this and just want to know what I have.

Thanks
 
cuzndav said:
I have done steps 1 2 & 3. Not sure what 3 accomplished...

My question is if I load a custom ROM do I lose HTS Sense?

Also before I started I was 2.1 OTA, do I now have a different version of 2.1?

I am kind of new at this and just want to know what I have.

Thanks
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cuzndav,

Step #3 installs a custom recovery partition / utility that you use to install the custom Eris 2.1 ROMs that the developers have created. Many of the custom ROMs have Sense; many do not.

You'll need to research and select which custom ROM is right for you, but if you are looking for something very close to stock 2.1, but rooted, then you can't go wrong with selecting "Eris Official 1.0" which is Ivanmmj's Eris Official 1.0 w/overclocking ROM (and yes, it still has Sense--its the one that I have installed on my phone).

As far as the OTA goes, yes, if you've rooted, you have "lost" the 2.1 OTA--but not to worry. Most of the ROMs have all of the bug fixes that came in the 2.1 OTA update already included (including Ivan's Eris Official). The goal of most ROM "chefs" is to provide the best and latest experience along with any goodies and customizations that they choose to put into their particular ROM.

So, where are you right now? Well, if you've only done steps #1 through #3, then you only have the 2.1 base root ROM installed. Its a very buggy, old version of 2.1, but it does have root capabilities. You will want to go ahead and install a custom ROM (i.e., step #4) so that your phone behaves properly and gives you the best experience possible.

I would encourage you to also read-around the various threads (especially the sticked ones) here in the all-things-root-eris forum to get a better idea about what is available and going on with rooting, ROMs, and issues that folks are dealing with.

Good luck and I hope this was helpful.
 
Thanks for the info. Very helpful.

I have another question. After completing #3 I disconected from my PC and started setting everything up. Do I need to get back and do a factory reset and then continue with # 4 or do I have to start over?
 
cuzndav said:
Thanks for the info. Very helpful.

I have another question. After completing #3 I disconected from my PC and started setting everything up. Do I need to get back and do a factory reset and then continue with # 4 or do I have to start over?
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Oh, no. You should be able to just reconnect your phone (make sure its got USB debugging on and is in Charge-Only mode) and then re-run the Eris Master Application's step #4 (that is assuming that have already selected a custom ROM to download--so, you might have to do the download step to get the ROM downloaded first).

Its sounds like you haven't had the USB connectivity problems that quite a few folks encounter (very lucky you!).

Since you have the custom recovery image, in reality all you really have to do is copy the custom ROM that you want to install onto your phone's /sdcard's top-level directory and flash it via the custom recovery utility. This really isn't that hard once you do it, but it might seem a little confusing at first. You've actually already accomplished all of the hard stuff.

Let's go with finishing using the Eris Master Application first before we start talking how to do this manually for next time. There's a few threads and lots of posts that already address that.

Go ahead and select "Eris Official 1.0" to download and install for step #4 and see how you like that particular ROM. Good luck!
 
I am downloading the Eris Official 1.0 Rom again just to make sure I have it. Then I am going to jump to step 4 and see how it goes.

I am on Windows 7 and do not seem to have any conectivity issues... yet...

Thanks for the help.
 
How long should it take to reboot? It keeps going from the HTC quietly Brilliant screen to the Verison Wireless screen but no further. Is this an issue or do I need to wait a little while longer?
 
cuzndav said:
How long should it take to reboot? It keeps going from the HTC quietly Brilliant screen to the Verison Wireless screen but no further. Is this an issue or do I need to wait a little while longer?
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Is your phone plugged-in (charging) and/or did it have a full charge to start with?
 
Well... turns out I may get myself rooted afterall... just a few hiccups.

Right now I'm on #4. (Been there a while as the pc seems to have frozen.)
Should I go ahead and complete the phone set up so I can make sure that my phone is still set to debugging enabled? Should the SD card need to be mounted or not???
Am I just being way too damn impatient?! It seems as though the computer jsut keeps freezing up...

Rebooting and the like has seemed to go quite fast so far... it's the freezing while downloading that's getting to me.
 
I just remembered it's 4th of July... I'm not gonna get a response am I?

-UPDATE-
Yeah, the problem was that it kept freezing buy luckily I'm stubborn enough to just keep trying. Looks like I got everything working now. Thanks for all the help scary alien.
 
I'm having the same issue as pondguy... I've found the Market Fix app by jcase but it doesn't seem to be working.

I'ce noticed that it says to do a nandroid back up first. Since I went the rout of the master app and didn't dl the SDK can I still do a nandroid back up? And if so, how?!
 
roscuthiii said:
I just remembered it's 4th of July... I'm not gonna get a response am I?

-UPDATE-
Yeah, the problem was that it kept freezing buy luckily I'm stubborn enough to just keep trying. Looks like I got everything working now. Thanks for all the help scary alien.
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roscuthiii,

Sorry no one responded to you...been a crazy weekend...and I got paged from work very early this morning...ugh!

Anyway, glad to see you got this going...
 
roscuthiii said:
I'm having the same issue as pondguy... I've found the Market Fix app by jcase but it doesn't seem to be working.

I'ce noticed that it says to do a nandroid back up first. Since I went the rout of the master app and didn't dl the SDK can I still do a nandroid back up? And if so, how?!
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roscuthiii,

I compared the MD5 sums of the erisofficial.zip file that the EMA (newest version of the EMA/AMA) downloads vs. the one I have/use (Eris_Official_1.0_OC.zip) that I got from Ivan's thread over at XDA and the MD5 sums are definitely different:

69847fce60c24c5a5d5aa4d9773565b2 *erisofficial.zip (this is version 0.8)

d07196f83e1b27218e118db42f794152 *Eris_Official_1.0_OC.zip

so I suspect that the ROM you've got is an older version (check the name and the MD5 sum against what I show above; file downloaded custom ROM should be in the EMA_Files\_UPLOAD\_ROMS subdirectory).

The Nandroid backup is a feature/funtion of Amon_RA's custom recovery utility. When you flashed the custom ROM, you went into a menu that should have looked like this:

=========================
Android system recovery

- Reboot system now
- USB-MS toggle
- Backup/Restore <<< start here for Nandroid backups
- Flash zip from sdcard
- Wipe <<< don't forget to wipe :D b4 new ROM install
- Partition sdcard
- Other
- Power off
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Build : RA-eris-v1.6.2
=========================

To do a Nandroid backup, you just boot into recovery, select "Backup/Restore", and then "Backup" (or is it "Nandroid Backup"?). It makes a complete copy of your phone so that you could restore it should something bad happen. Always a good idea to do this before flashing a new ROM (and don't forget to do the requisite Wipes of both data/factory reset and Dalvik-cache before flashing a new ROM).
 
scary alien, the eris official downloaded with the app should be version 1.0 as we try to keep the most updated versions on there. version 1.0 of eris official has been out for a while, and before we put the latest version of the master app.

scary alien, thanks for keeping the support going in this thread, as its hard for me to get on these boards and post. I spend what little time i have on the irc channel, chat.andirc.net is the website url for the irc server. lately i have been swamped with work and havent had much chance to update / code anything.

so if anyone wants live help, just jump over to the irc server and you can get a lot more support over there.
 
They should really get you on the pay roll around here.

One thing about using the all-in-one: I just clicked the buttons follwing the directions. I should have taken more time to actually look at what it was doing.
I kinda realized the nandroid backup thing after I'd posted but it is nice to have reassurance.

I'll have to make sure I have the ..1.0_OC.zip file later on when I get to sit down in front of my own (gf's) computer.

Other than that; any idea on this Marjet Fix app by jacase? I saw something about abd shell being used to allow SU Requests. Would the SDK be needed for that? (I'm hoping not... the SDK didn't paly well with my computer.)
 
ECLIPS3 said:
scary alien, the eris official downloaded with the app should be version 1.0 as we try to keep the most updated versions on there. version 1.0 of eris official has been out for a while, and before we put the latest version of the master app.

scary alien, thanks for keeping the support going in this thread, as its hard for me to get on these boards and post. I spend what little time i have on the irc channel, chat.andirc.net is the website url for the irc server. lately i have been swamped with work and havent had much chance to update / code anything.

so if anyone wants live help, just jump over to the irc server and you can get a lot more support over there.
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ECLIPS3,

Thanks for jumping in...:)

I never can tell if the folks have the old EMA or the new AMA version and/or how they obtain the ROMs. But I just did the AMA version and did the download for the erisofficial.zip (98,850,290 bytes) just last night and it does have a different size and MD5 sum from the one I got off of Ivan's site (100,392,067 bytes), so I can't explain the discrepancy. :confused:

BTW, I know you are busy helping w/the 2.1 leak root effort and I know everyone appreciates all of the time and effort you and others (I watched one of the videos you helped tereg with) are putting in to this. I'm sure all of the leakers will benefit from this.

I don't want folks to think that I am an official or unofficial spokesman for this app...I'm just trying to help out. And thanks for pointing-out anything incorrect that I may post (I'm still learning too :D).

Cheers!
 
I have really got to work on my patience factor lately... I've become a 5 year old.

I'm gonna make sure I'm still in debugging mode and then try jcase's market fix.

If it works feel free to drop me in a burlap sack and beat me with reeds.
 
Well, I'm still S.O.L.

jcase's market fix didn't bring back apps I know are in the market (ie, tv.com, history eraser)

-UPDATE- I manually changed the time in my phone to 11:59 and let the clock change over... after that... had the full market again. Guess I have to recall that inflammatory e-mail I sent now...
 
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