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Root New Unrevoked 3.21 Beta for FROYO is up

DroInc said:
OK, so I followed the guide from jonamerica and I thought all was well as the unrevoked flash tool gave me the "done" message. The next step on that guide was to make a backup and it says to go into the clockwork mod recovery. I turned the phone off, then held down the volume down and power button and it came up with the stock recovery screen.

I have no idea what I did wrong or if the root even worked.
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If the screen is white with Android robots on it then you are in the hboot screen. Navigate down the list to recover and select that. That will boot you into the clockwork recovery screen where you can do the backup.

On the hboot screen, see if it says s-off at the top...if it does then your root worked fine.
 
after many hours i finally got this thing to go!

The step i have been stuck on forever was something that i believe needs to be updated, no need to install the modified drivers from the unrevoked site. I just unrevoked 3.21 RC with the stock usb drivers from the newest version of the android sdk

hope that helps anyone else i spent a lot of time messing with this!
 
Thank you all! After all my doublechecking and video watching... what do I do? Fire up the macbook that had been set aside for the netbook and Win 7 to root the Dinc.

I do have another phone that I could use via the windows method, when I have time.

Is there going to be any difference between this beta and the final release? As in, reasons to have waited rather than taking the leap now, like I did? (I think that this was answered somewhere in the thread, but for the life of me, I can't recall where.)
 
kborer22 said:
after many hours i finally got this thing to go!

The step i have been stuck on forever was something that i believe needs to be updated, no need to install the modified drivers from the unrevoked site. I just unrevoked 3.21 RC with the stock usb drivers from the newest version of the android sdk

hope that helps anyone else i spent a lot of time messing with this!
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This is not entirely true. *Most* people will still need the unrevoked drivers instead of the default drivers that come with the SDK. You apparently got lucky with your system config and didn't need to. By all means, you can try to use the default drivers and see if your phone is recognized. But when that doesn't work for you, go grab the drivers from unrevoked, and update the driver through device manager.
 
DizkoDan said:
This is not entirely true. *Most* people will still need the unrevoked drivers instead of the default drivers that come with the SDK. You apparently got lucky with your system config and didn't need to. By all means, you can try to use the default drivers and see if your phone is recognized. But when that doesn't work for you, go grab the drivers from unrevoked, and update the driver through device manager.
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yea the whole process was weird for me. I rooted my phone previously on 2.1 and followed the process step by step and it was cake, but the addition of the updated sdk threw a wrench into things.

One thing i did notice was while rooting on 2.2 with is the new android sdk creates the the usb_driver folder automatically, hence my conclusion about not needing the unrevoked modified drivers. IDK all i know is i never copied the modified drivers and ran unrevoked and now i'm rooted!
 
kborer22 said:
yea the whole process was weird for me. I rooted my phone previously on 2.1 and followed the process step by step and it was cake, but the addition of the updated sdk threw a wrench into things.

One thing i did notice was while rooting on 2.2 with is the new android sdk creates the the usb_driver folder automatically, hence my conclusion about not needing the unrevoked modified drivers. IDK all i know is i never copied the modified drivers and ran unrevoked and now i'm rooted!
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If you had already rooted, and installed the drivers originally, then you wouldn't need to reinstall them. That may explain it.
 
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