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wildabouthockey

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So, I just got a Droid Eris for free from a client of mine that is going to be my husbands. Both my daughter and I have the Eris as well, both rooted using the one click method.

When I rooted ours, it was a piece of cake. This new one, not so much. :mad:

I followed all of the instructions carefully (many times) and when I boot into HBOOT to get to recovery, then click on RECOVERY, all it does is hang at the white screen with the three Androids. The bootloader is 1.47.

Help!
 
wildabouthockey said:
So, I just got a Droid Eris for free from a client of mine that is going to be my husbands. Both my daughter and I have the Eris as well, both rooted using the one click method.

When I rooted ours, it was a piece of cake. This new one, not so much. :mad:

I followed all of the instructions carefully (many times) and when I boot into HBOOT to get to recovery, then click on RECOVERY, all it does is hang at the white screen with the three Androids. The bootloader is 1.47.
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Just to ask the question, are you restarting the phone (as if you turned it off then turned it on to make a phone call) after running the 1-click root app? Or did you run 1-click root and then try to start recovery without restarting the phone first?

That restart the phone step is necessary in order to get the custom recovery installed.
 
This is exactly what I did:

Downloaded the 1 click for root
Accepted
Turned phone off completely (not just put it to sleep)
Turned phone on
Turned phone off completely (not just put it to sleep)
Rebooted using Vol- and PWR
Clicked on RECOVERY
Phone stays stuck on white screen with droid dudes
 
Just to be curious, what happens if you start holding VolUp instead? (If life is good, goes right to Recovery.)
 
wildabouthockey,

Your phone boots okay in "normal" mode, right? (i.e., you can reboot normally?)

Just want to be clear that your phone is not "toast" at the moment...

It sounds like the first flash of the custom recovery didn't "take". The 1-click app, after you have run it the first time and power off/on (i.e., the aforementioned reboot), will, upon reboot, flash the custom recovery. It will then create a file (/data/local/rights/flashed.log) to indicate that the recovery has already been installed (it doesn't really know whether the installation worked or not) so that it will not re-attempt the custom recovery flash on subsequent reboots.

Here's what I would do:

1. Check to see if you do indeed have a /data/local/rights/flashed.log file and that it contains the word "test"

2. If the flashed.log file does indeed exist and contains "test", then delete or rename this file (i.e., with Astro, etc.).

3. Re-run the 1-click procedure

An alternative to the above would be to use erisuser1's http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/127861-universal-eris-root-dummies.html thread's method since each step is more transparent than the 1-click method and should give you more to hang your hat on should something go awry.

Let us know.

Cheers!
 
scotty85 said:
i assume if you boot normally you dont have the superuser app? or do you? if you do have SU access,maybe just install scary aliens "tracball optional recovery" and youll be good to go :)

http://androidforums.com/eris-all-t...2-custom-recovery-trackball-not-required.html

would this work without the recovery from the 1 click app present?
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Nah, my method assumes you've already got the custom recovery already installed...

I've never gotten a response from jcase as to whether its cool to re-purpose his 1-click app to include my alternate recovery (it seems to be less and less relevant as time goes on since there are alternatives).

Cheers!
 
Vol + doesn't work (this is one of THOSE Eris'--lol!)
No superuser app
Yes, it boots normally after I remove the battery and push the pwr button--not toast

I deleted the one click app, did a hard reset, added the app back in and tried again. Nada.

I will try your suggestion scary alien. I need astro or ES file explorer to do this, correct?

Thanks for all your help, everyone. Once again, this forum ROCKS!
 
wildabouthockey said:
Vol + doesn't work (this is one of THOSE Eris'--lol!)
No superuser app
Yes, it boots normally after I remove the battery and push the pwr button--not toast

I deleted the one click app, did a hard reset, added the app back in and tried again. Nada.

I will try your suggestion scary alien. I need astro or ES file explorer to do this, correct?

Thanks for all your help, everyone. Once again, this forum ROCKS!
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Yeah, you should be able to use either file manager. I'm very curious if my conjecture is correct...it fits that you might have had a bad / incomplete flash of the recovery.

Make sure your phone is well-charged and preferably plugged-in too.

eu1's universal method employs exactly the same exploit that jcase's 1-click app does, so you still have that option.

Cheers!
 
wildabouthockey,

FYI, I double-checked the 1-click source and do see that the app will delete the "flashed.log" file whenever you hit the "Accept" button. This would have allow the app to re-flash the custom recovery upon next reboot.

So, if you re-ran the 1-click and did the whole process (click accept, reboot, etc.) more than once, then it should have tried to flash the custom recovery after each reboot.

Cheers!
 
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