Root [Revised] Rooting Gingerbread 2.3.5 Dummies Guide

[mburke1]

all new files freshly downloaded and extracted to desktop, than dragged into place

 

[mburke1]

so now begin at step five?

 

[ocnbrze]

yep lets do it.

 

[mburke1]

ok so when i first go to the bootloader for a brief second in green letters it says something like"checking sd card...no image found." Then it shows the normal menu.
Is that right?

 

[ocnbrze]

yes that is normal. keep going, select recovery and then power+vol buttons to get to stock recovery and reboot.

 

[mburke1]

hey just saw a notification to google chat. would that be easier?

 

[mburke1]

ok rebooting..

the recovery screen still had that same yellow text

 

[ocnbrze]

hey just saw a notification to google chat. would that be easier?

ok rebooting..

the recovery screen still had that same yellow text

ok was not sure if you saw my pm or not. that is up to you. communication would be faster.

and that message is normal actually so you are fine.

send me an invite if you like.

 

[mburke1]

so i did setps 7,8,9 and the command prompt looks like this, and the phone is on the red exclamationpoint screen

 

[ocnbrze]

ok looks good so far

 

[mburke1]

you want me to press the volume buttons and proceed to step 10?

 

[mburke1]

im logged onto my gmail, not sure how to chat with you since you are not in my contacts

 

[ocnbrze]

yep

 

[ocnbrze]

im logged onto my gmail, not sure how to chat with you since you are not in my contacts

there should be an invite somewhere by the contacts. i gave you my email as well.

 

[mburke1]

ok so i press the buttons and it goes to the recovery screen

blue menu up top

yellow cant open /cache/recovery/command at the bottom

i select reboot now

the phone reboots to htc sense

i enter step 10 command

it goes into boot loop and command prompt says this

 

[ocnbrze]

ok that looks normal, keep goping

 

[mburke1]

I enter step 11 command and get the #

I enter step 12 command and again same problem

 

[ocnbrze]

damn!!!!!!

give me a few minutes while i think on this one.

 

[mburke1]

lol! yeah i was like mother F***ER!!

 

[ocnbrze]

ok i think i got it. sorry it slipped my mind. so lets start over(i know sorry, but a fresh start would be easier).

now after you do the taco root command and get the phone to reboot, when it comes to the entering the command for the flash.img file close the command window. then re-open the command window and then enter the flash img command from there.

 

[mburke1]

ok so I enter the undo command and reboot the phone to htc sense. what then? go back to step 5?

 

[ocnbrze]

ok so I enter the undo command and reboot the phone to htc sense. what then? go back to step 5?

yes, exactly.....sorry you are having so much trouble with taco root.

 

[mburke1]

hey man this is a great learning experience for me. its giving me a bit of a head ache but if it works it will be worth it. i really appreciate all your help

ok reboot to recovery menu...

 

[mikem0269]

Let the phone loop for a few min It may boot at this point The instructions say you can do comands with it looping but that is incorect because it needs to at least mount the sd card or adb wont find the files.

 

[mikem0269]

If it keeps looping give the undo comand and start over some times it takes a few tries