Root N00b rooting question

[pseudoveritas]

Hi All,

Long time lurker, first time poster here. So today I bought a shiny new X (with a one year contract) as my first smart phone. After spending the last couple of weeks and months reading up on rooting I was positive I could do it. I followed this tutorial to T however, my phone froze after I hit Permanent Root and it said it was checking for exploits or something.

After about 15 mins (the clock on the Droid froze) I panicked and pulled the battery. It booted up fine again but that scared the crap out of me. What do you think happened? Did I not wait long enough? The battery was low, could that have had something to do with it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[colchiro]

Sounds like you have an anti-malware (anti-virus) app, like Lookout installed.

 

[pseudoveritas]

Really? On my droid? Am I screwed? I used my GF's Mac to download the apk file and I know she doesn't have any antivirus software on her machine. Thanks for getting back to me.

 

[DrDiff]

Where did you get the z4root from? If you got it off the market you didn't root. I got mine from the XDAdevelopers site. See it seems that the one on the market is bogus.

I forgot to reboot the first time I tried to get root with z4root. But after rebooting, everything was fine.

 

[pseudoveritas]

I got it from the same place you did. When do I reboot? I definitely didn't reboot until I pulled the battery. Maybe that could be it...

 

[colchiro]

Really? On my droid? Am I screwed? I used my GF's Mac to download the apk file and I know she doesn't have any antivirus software on her machine. Thanks for getting back to me.

I didn't say it was infected, just that rooting is a behavior that might be blocked by a program that acts as an anti-virus/anti-malware on your phone. Hacking tools are often blocked on PC's, so why not on a smart phone?

 

[jlewis74]

I have lookout on mine and it did not cause any issues when I rooted. My guess is since he did not reboot before trying to run z4 thats the problem.

 

[Bugly]

is this resolved?
There are bad copies of Z4 out there , but a good one is easy enough to acquire.
i also have a mac, and had no trouble getting Z4 to work, it may have been a bad copy.

 

[pseudoveritas]

Ok. I tried it again this morning. I think it was because I did not reboot before I ran Z4 root. Thank you to everyone for your help.