Root i want super cid. am i really rooted?

[eriklongbrake]

i want super cid on my desire (bravoc). i have tried running a script and doing manually with adb. here are the screeenshots from the results.

what's with the command error?

i am running cm7, have s-off and revolutionary. is my phone really rooted? z4root says it is, but i really don't know, swapper 2 also fails even though it's granted superuser permissions. es file explorer can't do certain things although it has also been granted superuser permissions.

here is my bootscreen:

some help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.

 

[KJohns]

the fastboot command would be "fastboot oemwritecid 11111111"

you on the desire hd? ---> try this link for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704251

 

[eriklongbrake]

that's the command i put, if you see the screenshot. i tried it again with no space between "oem" and "writecid", no success. no, not desire hd, just bravoc.

 

[KJohns]

that's the command i put, if you see the screenshot.

yeah i saw the screenshot, had spaces in it. havent heard a whole lot about people supercid'ing the desire (bravo). You dont really need to anyways unless your planning on flashing carrier/region specific roms, etc.

as to your root issue... what method did you use to root it? and, try download rootchecker or similar, what does it say when it checks for root?

 

[Hadron]

If you're running CM7 then you are rooted, because the ROM comes pre-rooted. But actually that's got nothing to do with SuperCID - rooting refers to the ROM, and no change to the ROM let's you modify the cid. That is determined by your bootloader.

As KJohns says, nobody actually talks about supercid on the Desire. I'm less familiar with what Revolutionary does on the BravoC, but on the Bravo you didn't need supercid after running Revolutionary because the Revolutionary hboot would bypass the cid check when running an RUU. That's one reason why setting supercid wasn't an issue.

The other is that I'm not sure that the command "fastboot oemwritecd" works on the Desire at all. It's used a lot on later HTC devices, but then they come with unlockable bootloaders which recognise the fastboot oem unlock command, which the Desire's bootloader does not. It might be that the newer hboot introduced with the bootloader unlock programme would recognise the command, but as that hboot was incompatible with Revolutionary you couldn't get S-Off if you had it, which meant that writing cid that way wasn't an option anyway! Since Revolutionary gave you more options than the HTCDev unlock did, we always told people not to use HTCDev with the Desire.

The important thing here is that you are S-Off. If you have that then you already have everything you need on the Desire.

As for your app problems, can you give more detail? Maybe the problem is as simple as your not having mounted /system rw before doing these things (which, on the Desire, requires S-Off as well as root, which is one of the reasons we'd always recommend Revolutionary rather than HTCDev).

 

[eriklongbrake]

ok, thanks for the super cid info, one of the reasons i wanted is i want to get off of carrier (us cellular), can i switch networks? apparently i am rooted. sorry i am kinda all over the place with the topics, i just have a lot of questions about the phone. i finally made it stop upgrading to google play + gp services by installing an old vending.apk and removing marketupdater.apk, worked like a charm, but still limited storage, so... i used this guide [GUIDE] [FAT32] [EXT4] [SWAP] [2.3+] How to Partition your Android MicroSD Card - xda-developers to get more storage on my lg optimus s (ls670). i didn't use the mini tool program, just the xiona (for my ls670) and revolutionary (for my bravoc). it worked flawlessly for my ls670, no matter what i install, i show around 90MB remaining internal thanks to link2sd and swapper 2. but: on my desire, link2sd does work fine, but swapper 2 gives me this message when i turn on:

am i doing something wrong? do i need to change settings, do i need a different version of the program, or do i even need it at all? does my desire do the swapping automatically if there's a linux swap partition on the sd card? (there is). can someone explain to me a little more about what is actually happening with these processes? i catch on quick, just not sure what's really happening. again, thanks for answers, i'm learning.

 

[Hadron]

I'm afraid I'm about to become rather unhelpful!

Firstly, as a Brit we don't have CDMA networks here, so I know nothing about the problems of moving CDMA phones between carriers.

Secondly, I'm afraid I also know nothing about swapper, except that I've never seen it discussed in the Desire forum. Do you have a particular problem you want it to solve, like apps losing their state when you open another app? Otherwise I'd just not bother myself, since I'd personally guess that the main effect of implementing swap will be to slow the phone down.