Root HItting a wall right now..

[mistawac]

I'll start by saying I have a fairly high tech level in general. I say that because I don't want you guys thinking I'm some random guy in here looking for an easy fix.

I've had KaosFroyo on my phone before, but I was supposed to get an Incredible so I flashed this back to my backup image and restored it to factory settings. Well a few things didn't quite happen and I'm not getting the Incredible, so I'm stuck with this thing.

I want to mod it up again and try out XTRRom. The problem though is that I can't seem to get Amon Ra's recovery partition on here to install a new ROM. I've been following a few guides and nothing really works. If someone could point me in the right direction that'd be superb.

Here's a little information that'll help:
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10.
The following shows at the top of the bootloader:

• PB00100 XC ENG S-OFF
• HBOOT - 1.49.2000 (PB0010000)
• MICROP-0111
• TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
• RADIO-2.40.00.01.22

...and only lists Fastboot, Recovery, and HBoot as an option if I don't have the PB00100.img on there. If I choose Recovery it boots into a screen with the little Android fella and a sketchy looking ! in a triangle.

Again, I'm running Linux so I can't install HTC Sync. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated, right now this phone is running slow as shit.

 

[zerocool79346]

Search in the market for one-click-eris-root app or something along those lines, its completely self explanatory from there and literally is one click to SU and Amon-Ra.

 

[Bob Cat]

Or you can use EU1's Universal Eris Root for Dummies! (

1 2 3 ... Last Page) Following the steps EXACTLLY as it shows. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 as well but I don't remember if I tried to put sync on it. By the way are you using a printer on Ubuntu?

 

[erisuser1]

Because you have the S-OFF bootloader, you can flash the recovery image in a single command from your Linux PC:

# fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img

No driver needed because it's Linux, but you'll probably need to be root in order to access the USB bus (as shown in the above command). Make sure the phone is well charged, and cold boot into fastboot mode with Send+End. Don't let the phone sit for extended periods in fastboot mode - the phone will discharge the battery, even if thecharger is plugged in.

You can verify communications with the phone prior to running the above command with

# fastboot devices

You can get a prebuilt (Linux) "fastboot" from the SDK, or even simpler, just the executable - from HTC.

Get Amon_RA's recovery here. As always, make sure to verify the MD5 sig of the downloaded .img file.


eu1

PS - the above two methods will also work. You should update your radio when you get a chance.