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Root GUIDE: From stock 1.5 to the latest root 2.1

jreed2560 said:
are you running windows 7 or xp. if you running 7 click on the android sdk folder>android sdk>tools. Once your inside the tools folder, go to the address bar and clear it. Next just type cmd and hit enter. you should get a cmd prompt with no need to type anything to direct it to that folder. From there you should just be able to copy and paste the commands for flashing the recovery image.
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ty, i can't believe how stupid i am with this, i had a palm pre that i hacked the crap out of, much easier than this.

on xp
 
omg this is killing me, i even uninstalled the driver, and reinstalled the usb driver through the sdk. where do i go in XP in "tools" to run the prompt?
 
Hit ur start button go to the search thing or run thing and type command prompt....after that make you get into tools folder of sdk from command prompt b4 exacuting commands for recovery
 
TheDroidDoes said:
Hit ur start button go to the search thing or run thing and type command prompt....after that make you get into tools folder of sdk from command prompt b4 exacuting commands for recovery
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i must be stupid cause i don't know what you are referring to as "make you get into tools folder sdk from command prompt".

i have a command prompt open, where to go from there?

plus i dont even know if i did the usb part right, i was having problems, so i uninstalled teh driver, then reinstalled the driver through the usb driver folder in the sdk
 
Now from command prompt type these commands and hit enter at end of each line:

cd C:\
cd AndroidSDK
cd tools
Now the line should look something like this...C:\ AndroidSDK\tools

You should be in the tools folder now and able to exacute the commands to flash recovery
 
Now from command prompt type these commands and hit enter at end of each line:

cd C:\
cd AndroidSDK
cd tools
Now the line should look something like this...C:\ AndroidSDK\tools

You should be in the tools folder now and able to exacute the commands to flash recovery
 
BigBeefy said:
are there any simple instructions for mac users?
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Open the application terminal. At a terminal prompt, type

cd

followed by a space.

Switch to the Finder. In the Finder, navigate to the Android SDK tools folder. If you looks at the top of a Finder window, you will see the name of the folder that you are in, and there is a small folder icon to the left of the name.

Set up your display so that you can see both the Terminal windows with "CD " and that Finder window. Now, drag that icon next to the name of the folder at the top of the window and drop it inside the terminal window. That will drop the full path name next to "CD ". You can then hit enter. It should say something like "cd /Users/username/Documents/android-sdk-mac_86/tools "

Also, when you see any instructions that tell you to type:

adb something

you will probably need to put a "./" in front of the "adb". Like this:

./adb push recovery.img /sdcard


Here is a photo showing what I mean (it's hard to read, but you should see that blue folder icon next to "tools" in the Finder window. Just drag that icon into the Terminal window, which I have on the left, after you have type "cd"):
 

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In need of some guidance...

I am currently trying to flash a custom ROM for the first time, but something is preventing me from booting into recovery. Executing the commands for installing the recovery image didn't produce any errors. I tried rebooting the phone into recovery mode (using vol dwn & power), but it just stays on the screen with the three androids on skateboards. Was the recovery.img possibly a bad file? I would have expected the command line to at least give me some sort of error. Any advice?
 
trdawson said:
In need of some guidance...

I am currently trying to flash a custom ROM for the first time, but something is preventing me from booting into recovery. Executing the commands for installing the recovery image didn't produce any errors. I tried rebooting the phone into recovery mode (using vol dwn & power), but it just stays on the screen with the three androids on skateboards. Was the recovery.img possibly a bad file? I would have expected the command line to at least give me some sort of error. Any advice?
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Pull battery
Volume up + power
 
I noticed that the first post was last updated April 1st. Does that mean the ROM hasn't been updated since then?

I am curious because I want to root mine right now but want to hold off if the 2.1 rom isn't like the OTA.

For example, I was on the leaks, v1, v2, and v3. There were lots of bugs in v1 and v2 like no pictures in gmail and some others. But v3 cleared up all the bugs and was good to go.

So, If I go and root following these instructions will I experience similar bugs?

Thanks.
 
9. Right-click the device, select Update Driver. Browse to your Android SDK directory, and you should see a "USB Driver" folder in it now. If you don't, you forgot to download the USB Driver package when in "SDK Setup.exe". Select the driver in that folder.

I'm stuck here. I do not see "USB Driver". I do see a "USBNULL HPO08" and "Windows CE USB Devices" (I am sure the Windows one is not it, just listing it because it is the only other thing with USB in it).

Not sure what to do here. I have the usb driver package installed.
 
I am having the most horrible time with rooting....hopefully I can get some help...

I. Installing Amon's recovery image

1. Download this file: Recovery.zip

2. Extract file contents to your \tools\ directory of your Android SDK.

3. Open up a command prompt and go to your tools directory, and execute these commands: (MAKE SURE YOUR SDCARD IS NOT MOUNTED TO YOUR COMPUTER OR THESE COMMANDS WON'T WORK! MAKE SURE IT IS ON "CHARGE ONLY")
adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
adb push recovery.img /sdcard
adb push flash_image /system/bin
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

4. Success! You now have a recovery partition installed on your phone. You can access it by running "adb shell reboot recovery" or by powering off your phone, holding "Volume Up + Power On"

I know how to do a command, but I don't understand these instructions. How do I go to "tools" and run a command there? It doesn't make sense to me.
 
jreed2560 said:
open the tools folder. go to the address bar and clear it. type cmd and viola
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Wow, I am an idiot. I was trying to run a Windows cmd.

Second question, I started to run the root file PB00IMG.zip and notice the hboot changes to 1.49....is this suppose to happen? When I saw this I did a quick battery pull to stop the process. Reason that I ask, as you know with the leak versions those had 1.49 hboot and therefor are unrootable.

Thanks.
 
I'm kinda new to.this, is there a way to root my eris thats not real diffucult? I havnt a clue where to even start,lol just want live wallpapers and other awesome stuff,please any information will be helpful. Running 2.1 official ota, thank you
 
STUCK

III. Installing the new rooted ROM

1. Download the rom here: eris21official-root.zip

2. Place the file eris21official-root.zip on the root of your sdcard

3. Reboot your phone into recovery mode.

4. Go to Wipe, and do a wipe of data/factory reset, as well as dalvik-cache wipe.

5. Go back to the main menu and select "Flash Zip from SDcard"

6. You should see eris21official-root.zip. Select it. Press the trackball to flash it.

7. That's it! You're now running the latest version of the root rom. You will use the same process in this section most likely to flash future updates to the root rom, so remember how to do this method with the recovery partition.


When I try and follow this I just get a black screen with white triangle and orange ! with a green droid dude.

What am I doing wrong?
 
i am trying to root my 2.1 OTA eris and i am stuck on the pre-requisites. i downloaded the SDK and when i go to update my usb drivers, i follow where to go but its not updating. can someone help me out? im in the IRC chat room, #ErisRootHelp, but no one is in it to help me out
 
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