Root Have I managed Perm Root with this much ease? Visionary+ Question

[Tommex]

About 3 hours ago, I won a Desire Z (wheeey!) at the HTC London meetup. Naturally, I came straight here after the help I got in January rooting my Desire.

I used the Visionary method and obtained temp root status, and then attempted perm root, which seemed to work. All of the guides I have read include a bunch of steps after this, one of which included deleting Visionary, which I then did. I just turned the phone off, took the battery out for a bit and then turned it back on. I still have the Superuser icon and the Terminal Emulator indicates that I have root access... is that it then? It's that simple?

Please tell me if I've done anything wrong, as I don't want to flash Cyanogen and Clockwork Recovery if it's all going to go to hell on me. Any advice or confirmation on whether or not I've obtained perm root would be lovely.

Oh, my firmware version is 1.34.405... etc. Is this simply the last version which allows for such easy root?

 

[Slug]

Please tell me if I've done anything wrong, as I don't want to flash Cyanogen and Clockwork Recovery if it's all going to go to hell on me.

No, you've got root access. To flash third-party ROMs you'll also have to remove the radio security flag though i.e. obtain S-OFF. This is very easily done as described here. I used the gfree method myself after rooting with VisionARY, so I can vouch for it.

my firmware version is 1.34.405... etc. Is this simply the last version which allows for such easy root?

Yup, later versions are much more awkward.

 

[Tommex]

Wait, if I have root access, do I only need to go from the step that tells you how to S-Off?

Thanks for the link, man, I just don't want to start down a road that could bugger this phone.

 

[Slug]

do I only need to go from the step that tells you how to S-Off?

Yes, you only need to d/l and run gfree as detailed in the wiki.... Step 4 onwards.

Note: I used the gfree v0.2 method as v0.5 wasn't available back then. As noted in the wiki, if v0.5 fails try the earlier version/procedure.

 

[Tommex]

I'm following the commands to the letter, but the adb command isn't working in the cmd window... I have it in the SDK, though, where I open it, it flows through some stuff and then closes again.