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bamacalvin

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So, I tried rooting my phone today. I got the USB driver installed, set the USB debugging, made sure the HTC Sync was uninstalled, and installed Unrevoked 3.2. However, whevever I plug my phone in and turn it on, the Unrevoked software just sits there and doesn't recognize my phone. Any help?
 
I am rooting now and am having the same issue. :eek:

Also I just opened device manager and in Other Devices the ADB has the ! on it.
 
theandies said:
I am rooting now and am having the same issue. :eek:

Also I just opened device manager and in Other Devices the ADB has the ! on it.
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Then you don't have all of the drivers installed correctly. Did you install both the modified HBOOT driver and then install and remove HTC Sync? Do you have USB Debugging enabled on your phone?
 
Never used sync but checked to make sure it wasn't installed before I began. Yes I installed the modified USB driver and didn't encounter any problems with that. I turned on USB debugger on the phone as directed. What I'm thinking is starting over by re-installing the USB driver again. Would that be the best course of action?
Thanks for your help.

Edit - just re-read your post. Do you have to install sync first then unistall it? I was never going to use sync so I have never installed it.
BTW using a Win7 PC and unrevoked 3.21
 
theandies said:
Never used sync but checked to make sure it wasn't installed before I began. Yes I installed the modified USB driver and didn't encounter any problems with that. I turned on USB debugger on the phone as directed. What I'm thinking is starting over by re-installing the USB driver again. Would that be the best course of action?
Thanks for your help.

Edit - just re-read your post. Do you have to install sync first then unistall it? I was never going to use sync so I have never installed it.
BTW using a Win7 PC and unrevoked 3.21
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Yes, you need to install HTC Sync because it places some drivers on the PC. You can then uninstall the app, but it will leave the drivers on the PC, which is what you seem to be missing.
 
bamacalvin said:
So, I tried rooting my phone today. I got the USB driver installed, set the USB debugging, made sure the HTC Sync was uninstalled, and installed Unrevoked 3.2. However, whevever I plug my phone in and turn it on, the Unrevoked software just sits there and doesn't recognize my phone. Any help?
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So did you previously have HTC Sync installed on your PC and then you uninstalled it, or did you check the list of installed programs and didn't see HTC Sync so you assumed all was good?

You need to install HTC Sync on your PC because it installs some drivers too. You can then uninstall HTC Sync and proceed with Unrevoked.
 
Installing and then uninstalling sync did allow unrevoked to reconize my phone but I'm still having problems. The root is not taking. I might try another method in a while but I got so fustrated yesterday after the 4th or 5th time I'm just going to wait awhile. Anyway I bought Star Craft 2 so I'll have lots to do in the next few week.:D
 
ashcab said:
can at&t htc aria be flashed to cricket?
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No. AT&T uses GSM/UTMS for the radio signals and I believe Cricket uses CDMA/EVDO like Sprint and Verizon do. The radio hardware in the phones are different depending on if they support GSM or CDMA, so there is no way for a software flash to change the way the hardware radios work.
 
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