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GrdLock said:
One more thing to add:

If you're ever feeling testy or annoyed that something isn't working right, or that root hasn't been found for your phone yet, just remember one thing: This stuff is constantly being worked on, and it's being done by people who have full-time jobs, bills to pay, and families of their own to spend time with... and all the work that's being put into this is being done for free. So don't be mean. :) Be patient, and be polite! :)

Thank you everyone for your positive comments and feedback! They're appreciated!
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I didn't want to gum up this thread, but I must say that I am always testy... As in always willing to test out new toys from the devs before they release it to the masses...

Of course it's just so I can yell First!.. Lol jk. Excellent thread acid.
 
Ruh17 said:
I didn't want to gum up this thread, but I must say that I am always testy... As in always willing to test out new toys from the devs before they release it to the masses...

Of course it's just so I can yell First!.. Lol jk. Excellent thread acid.
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LMAO...We all get testy....Just how it goes :)

And thanks.
 
D_Rock said:
Is this patch for the people who have rooted 2.1 or the leak or both?
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The patch you're referring to is for rooted phones. You have to be able to flash through recovery and you cant have the recovery image without root.

It's a patch for people that want to get the benefits of the new "official" but don't want to go through the process of setting their phone up again.. Reinstalling apps and changing settings to how your previous rom was set up.
 
I think it's getting confusing w/ all these releases. Let's summarize:

  • Original root: Filename PB00IMG.zip. An "unofficial official" ROM that provides you with initial root. Can only be flashed from a phone running 1.5. Not to be confused with any of the "unofficial official" 2.1 leaks that don't have root.
  • 2.1 leak: Filename PB00IMG.zip. Also an "unofficial official" ROM that upgrades your 1.5 phone to a 2.1 un-rooted OS.
  • New 2.1 leak: Filename PB00IMG.zip. Another "unofficial official" ROM that upgrades your 1.2 or "2.1 leak" phone to the most recently available un-rooted version of Android 2.1.

** By "unofficial official" I mean that the ROM's are signed by HTC and must be installed from the phone's bootloader. We cannot edit and repack files to be loaded using the phone's stock bootloader, as we cannot sign these ROM's ourselves.

The below rooted ROM's that can ONLY be installed with an ALREADY rooted phone with the recovery image installed!
  • eris_0_3.zip: This is one of the earliest solid rooted ROM's. This ROM is based off the "2.1 leak" ROM.
  • eris21official-root.zip: This ROM is based on the "New 2.1 leak" ROM. It requires a full data wipe and will upgrade your phone to the latest version of the Eris kernel and software available.
  • ota-update.zip: A few of these may be floating around. It was an attempt to make a ROM that will upgrade your already rooted phone to the same thing as "eris21official-root.zip" but without having to do a full data wipe first. It's very experimental and might or might not work for you. I wouldn't recommend using it, or if you try, to be sure to have a Nand backup first.
 
GrdLock said:
I think it's getting confusing w/ all these releases. Let's summarize:

  • Original root: Filename PB00IMG.zip. An "unofficial official" ROM that provides you with initial root. Can only be flashed from a phone running 1.5. Not to be confused with any of the "unofficial official" 2.1 leaks that don't have root.
  • 2.1 leak: Filename PB00IMG.zip. Also an "unofficial official" ROM that upgrades your 1.5 phone to a 2.1 un-rooted OS.
  • New 2.1 leak: Filename PB00IMG.zip. Another "unofficial official" ROM that upgrades your 1.2 or "2.1 leak" phone to the most recently available un-rooted version of Android 2.1.
** By "unofficial official" I mean that the ROM's are signed by HTC and must be installed from the phone's bootloader. We cannot edit and repack files to be loaded using the phone's stock bootloader, as we cannot sign these ROM's ourselves.


The below rooted ROM's that can ONLY be installed with an ALREADY rooted phone with the recovery image installed!
  • eris_0_3.zip: This is one of the earliest solid rooted ROM's. This ROM is based off the "2.1 leak" ROM.
  • eris21official-root.zip: This ROM is based on the "New 2.1 leak" ROM. It requires a full data wipe and will upgrade your phone to the latest version of the Eris kernel and software available.
  • ota-update.zip: A few of these may be floating around. It was an attempt to make a ROM that will upgrade your already rooted phone to the same thing as "eris21official-root.zip" but without having to do a full data wipe first. It's very experimental and might or might not work for you. I wouldn't recommend using it, or if you try, to be sure to have a Nand backup first.
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Added to first post.
Looks fairly complete...lol...for now ;)
 
Thank you. That clears it up!! I see where you can make a backup in the recovery, will that restore all data and apps once the new rom is flashed?
 
D_Rock said:
Thank you. That clears it up!! I see where you can make a backup in the recovery, will that restore all data and apps once the new rom is flashed?
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No. The Nandroid backup will do a COMPLETE backup or restore. It will backup your entire phone. Once you install a new rom, if you do a Nandroid restore, it will restore what was previously on your phone, operating system version, kernel, apps, everything.
 
I getting a Force Close with every live wallpaper I try to run, even the "cube" ones that came with it.

Also, lockscreen-r.zip said it installed, however its not showing up when i go to flash from sd card.
 
What rom are you running? Are you running the eris21official-root one that came with the package? Or a different one? If you're running a different rom you may not have the needed library files to run the live wallpapers.

As for the lockscreen-r.zip thing, that's a little bug I haven't fixed yet in the script. Just copy that file from the \files\ directory to your sdcard manually, power down phone, hold VolUp and power on, then choose Flash zip from sdcard and select that file.
 
I am also getting force closes. I used the whole package. Also for the install extra it seems that option 5 is install tether instead of exit and secret option 6 is exit.
 
Yeah, I added the wireless tether at the last minute and didn't change the options around. I love making typos in stuff to confuse people. ;) (on a serious note yes I noticed I made this typo earlier I just haven't fixed it and re-uploaded it and updated all the links I've posted)

As for the fc's w/ live wallpapers, I'll check on that.
 
Ok, I figured out the issue with the live wallpapers. Apparently they don't install properly with the new kernel.

To get them installed properly, you'll need to go into the shell.

Open your command prompt and go to your \tools\ directory. Type the following commands:
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[b]
adb push files\LiveWallpapersPicker.apk /sdcard[/b] (make sure your sdcard IS NOT mounted on your computer)[b]

adb shell

su[/b] (you may get a popup on your phone asking you to allow after typing this)[b]

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

rm /data/app/com.android.wallpaper.livepicker.apk[/b] (skip this line if you never even installed live wallpapers to begin with)[b]

cp /sdcard/LiveWallpapersPicker.apk /data/app

exit

exit[/b]
Your live wallpapers should now be working.
 
Go to Start > Run (or hold Windows Key + R) and type "cmd" in there (no quotes)

Then you have to navigate to the directory on your computer where you installed your Android SDK.

Type "cd directoryname" to get there. Let's say your SDK is in C:\Program Files\AndroidSDK, you would do:

cd c:\program files\androidsdk\tools

Once you're in the tools directory, you can start those commands from the post above.
 
and I'm doing this all with debugging enabled right? All of your directions seemed to have entered in just fine, but I still cant get them to work. Thanks for trying though, I'm sure you'll get it worked out! If you need a guinea pig, I'm here. I have 3 eris's, 1 rooted, 1 on 1.5, and 1 one with the 2.1 NEW leak.
 
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