zennmaster
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The method that's been posted around, originally (I think) from Rootzwiki works in principle, but does not give a persistent root, and the procedure needs some fleshing out. This is the method I used to achieve persistent (although reversible) root on the Rev.
Here goes:
1) Get ADB working (I'm using Linux, BTW, so I can't really help with Windows issues). Get into a terminal.
When the command adb devices produces an output like:
Then you are in business.
2) On the phone, make sure you have "Internet Connection" selected as your USB connection mode, and USB Debugging selected in Menu -> Applications -> Development (as previously discussed, USB debugging will remain greyed out until Internet Connection is selected).
Grab SU, Rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin and busybox, which are all in a zip file I have attached below.
3)Place all three files in a convenient location for pushing with adb (your /[Path-To-SDK]/platform-tools directory would be a great idea)
4)We need to get our rooting tools onto the phone, so from your terminal, type:
Now enter adb shell like this:
You will now see a "$" prompt.
Type:
Now wait until you get kicked all the way back to your terminal prompt. If you see the "$", don't do anything, just keep waiting! When it's done you'll be all the way out of ADB, which you will now need to restart.
5) Get back to the adb shell:
Instead of a "$" prompt, you should now see a "#". Congratulations! You're rooted!
Now to make it stick:
6) (This is the part that people were getting stuck on) Now you need to remount your /system directory as read/write, so type:
Your /system directory is now mounted read/write.
Now to move the tools we pushed earlier into their new homes:
At this point, you may want to remove the files you put in /data/local/temp: This is just housekeeping, the files won't hurt anything if you leave them there.
(optional)
Then reboot:
When your phone reboots, go to the market and download Superuser.
This worked for me, hopefully it will work for you!
-Z
Here goes:
1) Get ADB working (I'm using Linux, BTW, so I can't really help with Windows issues). Get into a terminal.
When the command adb devices produces an output like:
Code:
List of devices attached
[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] device2) On the phone, make sure you have "Internet Connection" selected as your USB connection mode, and USB Debugging selected in Menu -> Applications -> Development (as previously discussed, USB debugging will remain greyed out until Internet Connection is selected).
Grab SU, Rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin and busybox, which are all in a zip file I have attached below.
3)Place all three files in a convenient location for pushing with adb (your /[Path-To-SDK]/platform-tools directory would be a great idea)
4)We need to get our rooting tools onto the phone, so from your terminal, type:
Code:
adb push su /data/local/temp
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/temp/rage
adb push busybox /data/local/temp
Code:
adb shellType:
Code:
./data/local/temp/rage5) Get back to the adb shell:
Code:
adb shellNow to make it stick:
6) (This is the part that people were getting stuck on) Now you need to remount your /system directory as read/write, so type:
Code:
mount -o remount,rw -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p12 /systemNow to move the tools we pushed earlier into their new homes:
Code:
cd /system/bin
cat /data/local/temp/su > su
cat /data/local/temp/busybox > busybox
chmod 4755 su
chmod 4755 busybox(optional)
Code:
rm /data/local/temp/su
rm /data/local/temp/busybox
rm /data/local/temp/rage
Code:
rebootThis worked for me, hopefully it will work for you!
-Z
