Root [Revised] Rooting Gingerbread 2.3.5 Dummies Guide

[ocnbrze]

as in from the very beginning?

well start from going into the bootloader and into recovery and the power+vol up and vol down. step 5 on.

 

[ocnbrze]

well try step 10 and see then.

 

[ocnbrze]

do you have usb debugging turned on before you doing the taco root commands?

edit: also is it set to charge only when connected to the pc?

 

[ocnbrze]

from the great words of the capt:

You can ignore that error and reboot the device. There isn't anything that you need to actually do in recovery - you just need to have booted into it once.

There should be a menu at the top of the screen, the first option being "Reboot device now". That's all you need to do.

edit: original post:http://androidforums.com/4080320-post613.html

 

[mburke1]

ok so i went to bootloader selected recovery, volume buttons + power

screen has the blue recovery menu

and the yellow text at the bottom that says

"E: can't open /cache/recovery/command"

I select from the menu to reboot system

the phone reboots to htc sense

I enter into the command prompt the step 9 command, the phone reboots to the exclamation point screen, the command prompt says rebooting into recovery press volume buttons + power and reboot the system

i press the buttons, the recovery menu pops up with the same yellow text at the bottom

i select reboot system now

the phone reboots to htc sense

i recheck to be sure of charge only, fast boot off, debugging on. All are still set right.

I enter into command prompt the step 10 command

the command prompt give the developer stuff then says rebooting into root

the phone goes into a boot loop

the command prompt goes down a line and says the c drive location of my android folder on the desktop

 

[ocnbrze]

ok perfect continue on to the next step

 

[mburke1]

i enter the step 11 command

the command prompt gives the #

I enter the step 12 command

then it says no such file or directory for /sdcard/flash_image

 

[ocnbrze]

do you have the file on the sd card?

 

[Mikestony]

I'm just following along here and I am sure I will get ninja'd but, that is the extracted file on the sd card right?

Edit: I knew it! by one minute too sheesh

 

[mburke1]

now when i did this previously i went ahead and completed the other 2 commands of step 12

the command prompt never said any thing about daemon

 

[mburke1]

yeah i extracted the flash_image file from the zipped fol;der and dragged it onto the phone right next to the android secure and lost dir folders, the falsh image file was not in any folder of its own

 

[mburke1]

please excuse the typing, typing quick = typos

 

[mburke1]

I right click the zip folder ont the desktop, select extract here. the flash_image file pops up on the desktop and I just drag it over to the G drive with is the phone

 

[ocnbrze]

now when i did this previously i went ahead and completed the other 2 commands of step 12

the command prompt never said any thing about daemon

daemon should start whenever you are doing and adb commands which is what your are doing. if the server did not start successfully then something is not right.

 

[mburke1]

so you want me to proceed with the other 2 commands of step 12?

 

[ocnbrze]

no the first one needs to be done first. can't skip steps like that. are you copying and pasting from the guide to the command window? or are you typing it in?

 

[mburke1]

I cant figure out why the flash file isn't being found

 

[mburke1]

i am copying and pasting

 

[mburke1]

i was at first typing it in but when it didn't work i started to compy and paste thinking i was putting it in wrong, but same result

 

[ocnbrze]

try typing the command in

 

[mburke1]

too bad the htcdev site is not working for me, then I could try one of the other methods

 

[ocnbrze]

ok then just to be sure you have the files on the card no folders, correct? and you do get a # and not $, correct?

 

[mburke1]

so i type into the command prompt

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

this time it doesnt say "no such file or directory"

now it just says "not found"

 

[ocnbrze]

what is the command you are entering or pasting in, just to be sure?

 

[mburke1]

yeah no folders

the flash_image and mtd-eng.img files are by themselves next to the other folders

i've got the #

i've never seen a $ before