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Root GUIDE: From stock 1.5 to the latest root 2.1

Got a new issue that I do not see in any other forum. And IRC chat looks kinda dead right now.

I have gone through Root, Recovery.img, the 0_2 ROM, and now on the 0_3 ROM. I was able to adb shell with a # (super user access...) but now that I am on 0_3 ROM I am only given the $ in the shell. I have noticed that when I was on the beta and the 0_2ROM that the phone was set up in Device Manager of Windows XP as an Android ADB but now it is installed as My HTC? What happened when I installed the 0_3ROM that my device properties changed. Also I do have USB debugging enabled and only connected as "Charge only".

Any one got any ideas?
 
joshuajgrove said:
Got a new issue that I do not see in any other forum. And IRC chat looks kinda dead right now.

I have gone through Root, Recovery.img, the 0_2 ROM, and now on the 0_3 ROM. I was able to adb shell with a # (super user access...) but now that I am on 0_3 ROM I am only given the $ in the shell. I have noticed that when I was on the beta and the 0_2ROM that the phone was set up in Device Manager of Windows XP as an Android ADB but now it is installed as My HTC? What happened when I installed the 0_3ROM that my device properties changed. Also I do have USB debugging enabled and only connected as "Charge only".

Any one got any ideas?
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PM pkopalek. He was having what sounds like a similar issue and was discussing on #droideris.
 
adb shell su gets me the "#" but cmd then locks up and will not let me enter anything from there
as soon as I disconnect my phone from the computer am back to the tools folder
 
adb shell

su


There was supposed to be two commands there, not one lol

push adb shell
then when the $ appears, type 'su'
 
oh I see. You've already done that.

What exactly isn't working?

If you do adb shell

then

su

.... what are you trying to accomplish that isn't working? If you download Google's wireless tether 1.70 for htc's 1.5/1.6, does it work? does it ask you permissions, so you can push 'Allow'?

FWIW, when I used 'Always Allow' for a couple of things, EVERYTHING got messed up with su. I had to go through everything again.
 
I finally got everything to work and installed 03 but when the phone rebooted it's stuck in a loop between the verizon screen and the htc screen. ANy ideas?
 
anderson620 said:
I finally got everything to work and installed 03 but when the phone rebooted it's stuck in a loop between the verizon screen and the htc screen. ANy ideas?
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Flash the rom on again. do a wipe first. same thing last night for me. Had to do a wipe first
 
Well, after hours and hours and a lot of help from you guys, especially GrdLock, my phone is finally working. After the fact, it occurs to me that hardware is more my strongsuit and this might have been a little over my head. Thanks again for all the help!

All is right with the world.
 
hakoreh said:
I know I have root because I see # at the command prompt.

OK I'm having an issue and I can't figure it out. First I had an issue pusing the recovery.img to the sd card because it said read only. I got around that by copying it myself. Now the last command won't work

adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

it says there is no such file or directory when the card is mounted. when the card is not mounted it scrolls through almost infinite read write errors that say out of memory and then says no space left on device.

what am i doing wrong?

help someone??
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make sure if you already have the 2.1 rom flashed you select htc sync for the usb connection option. Also, make sure you have teh updated usb drivers for sdk.
 
I'm sure there is a thread for this somewhere but I just noticed that the G-Sensor Calibration doesn't seem to work. Every try ends in "Calibration Aborted". Anyone else run into this? My computer won't do IRC chat (some Win7 thing) otherwise I would post over there.
 
adb push recovery.img /sdcard

will not work, I have the card mounted. tried cap R and lower, omiting the .img the thing will not transfer to my sdcard ?

I do have the # after adb shell is entered so I am rooted... what gives.

its saying its a read only file??
 
screennamie said:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard

will not work, I have the card mounted. tried cap R and lower, omiting the .img the thing will not transfer to my sdcard ?

I do have the # after adb shell is entered so I am rooted... what gives.

its saying its a read only file??
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Did you remount?
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
 
actually figured that part out a bit ago. I had it mounted instead of using the sync.

Now I'm getting the same thing as anderson did.
anderson620 said:
I finally got everything to work and installed 03 but when the phone rebooted it's stuck in a loop between the verizon screen and the htc screen. ANy ideas?
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Did the davlik wipe thing and reflashing the rom to see what happens. Will the factory reset wipe get rid of all my hard work so far if I have to use it?
 
screennamie said:
actually figured that part out a bit ago. I had it mounted instead of using the sync.

Now I'm getting the same thing as anderson did.


Did the davlik wipe thing and reflashing the rom to see what happens. Will the factory reset wipe get rid of all my hard work so far if I have to use it?
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yes. factory reset wipes all the app install and other customizations you have done. kind of annoying... but I've had flashed different roms and wiped data and such many time in the last week, so .... at the very least you will become a pro at setting your phone up just the way you like it :rolleyes: cheers!
 
Had to sign up to thank you guys....great guide was so simple and brought back some memories of some old Dos days....now to decide if I want to root my wife's Eris too.....
 
hey guys im on the last part of the update, everytime i boot into recovery mode it sits there on the white screen with the 3 htc dudes....i cant upload the new OS. Any help?
 
Mena2871 said:
hey guys im on the last part of the update, everytime i boot into recovery mode it sits there on the white screen with the 3 htc dudes....i cant upload the new OS. Any help?
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I'm new to this so just guessing but before I did the update at all I tried the power up to recovery just to see what it would boot too and it did the same thing you are describing so maybe the recovery program didn't install correctly..you could try doing that step again to see if it would help.
 
I'm trying to follow the steps in the guide, I'm at the part where I have to run

adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

I get the following messages in the command line:

mtd: read error at 0x00000000 (Out of memory)

I will attach a doc with the full text

I have 6.65GB free on the sdcard and 106MB free on the phone. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
 

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