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Root ROOTING For Dummies Guide.....the Gingerbread Edition

I don't want to be a bugger, and that's certainly not my intent, but I really need help... basically, I can't get past step 5. When Revolutionary is supposed to be "Zerging"... whatever that is... well, nothing is happening. Actually, my phone is currently "Zerging" and has been for the past 10 or so minutes. I've turned off my antivirus and uninstalled several things, but I have no clue what might be holding my phone... "hostage". Any tips would be extremely welcome. Much thanks goes out to the devs and you all for the work done so far!!
 
wow. After a few trial and error mistakes on my part, this process turned out to be incredibly easy AND FAST:D. For a first time rooting a device i have to take my hat off to all the developers...awesome jobs guys!!! thank you
 
Arikaido said:
I don't want to be a bugger, and that's certainly not my intent, but I really need help... basically, I can't get past step 5. When Revolutionary is supposed to be "Zerging"... whatever that is... well, nothing is happening. Actually, my phone is currently "Zerging" and has been for the past 10 or so minutes. I've turned off my antivirus and uninstalled several things, but I have no clue what might be holding my phone... "hostage". Any tips would be extremely welcome. Much thanks goes out to the devs and you all for the work done so far!!
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do you have the fastboot drivers installed on your computer?
 
ocnbrze said:
do you have the fastboot drivers installed on your computer?
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Yep. I had the drivers from the original stuff about a month ago, but I figured I might as well get the new stuff. Then, I uninstalled HTC Sync since it was keeping Revolutionary from running. Re-installed drivers again at this point. After an hour of failing, I've uninstalled everything and re-installed it again. So, as of right now, I have the drivers on my comp. I mean, my phone is being read...
 
ocnbrze said:
and you are sure that there is no anti-virus program running on your computer?
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I have avast!, but I turned off all the shields. They should be off for another 30 minutes or so... and I can't find a way to actually shut down the program without uninstalling it. Should I give that a go?
 
ocnbrze said:
i'm kind of running out of ideas. how long to does it sit? maybe try it on another computer. what size card do you have?
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Yeah, me too... I have a 16GB class 6 micro, and I currently don't have access to another computer. All the other comps in the house are for business purposes, and it's 5 AM.... Do you think this is a phone issue or a comp issue?

Edit: Oh, and it could sit for hours if I let it. Which I did let it sit for an hour at one point. Been working on this since 11 PM... no fruit for my labors... ugh...
 
Arikaido said:
Yeah, me too... I have a 16GB class 6 micro, and I currently don't have access to another computer. All the other comps in the house are for business purposes, and it's 5 AM.... Do you think this is a phone issue or a comp issue?
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not sure. does your computer see your phone ok? do you get any pop ups about unknown device or something like that. any errors when connecting?
 
ocnbrze said:
not sure. does your computer see your phone ok? do you get any pop ups about unknown device or something like that. any errors when connecting?
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None at all. Also, revolutionary can read my phone just fine. Tells me the SN, which I've verified with the back of my phone, so I know it's not just generating some ish... It just... doesn't "zerg"... whatever that may be....

EDIT: Well... I think I'm gonna turn in... seriously, oncbrze, thanks for all of your help. It looks like I'm just gonna have to wait a little while longer for this to work for me. I'll keep my eyes peeled for updates and the like. Again, thanks for your time. It was time well spent, good Sir.

Sir Oncbrze... That's fitting!
 
did all of the stuff to get rooted and cm7 installed but my contact's cant find no gmail to sync what didi i do wrong other than that cm7 running fine just don't have my data
 
i got to the point of of s-off. but the su wont work. i already downloaded the file a few times. and everytime i try to flash superuser it says file not found. the file does not appear in this form when i copy to my sd card "superuser su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip". it says system/bin/su. what can i do to flash su and gain root access? please help. dtony1985@gmail.com im new to this im probably doing something wrong.
 
bmg5663 said:
did all of the stuff to get rooted and cm7 installed but my contact's cant find no gmail to sync what didi i do wrong other than that cm7 running fine just don't have my data
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Did you flash the gapps zip that goes along with CM7? If so, go to settings>accounts & sync and you should see one for google to sign into.
 
T3X4NSBULL said:
i got to the point of of s-off. but the su wont work. i already downloaded the file a few times. and everytime i try to flash superuser it says file not found. the file does not appear in this form when i copy to my sd card "superuser su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip". it says system/bin/su. what can i do to flash su and gain root access? please help. dtony1985@gmail.com im new to this im probably doing something wrong.
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Did you unzip the file by chance? Make sure it is still in zip format before transferring it to your sdcard.
 
Arikaido said:
None at all. Also, revolutionary can read my phone just fine. Tells me the SN, which I've verified with the back of my phone, so I know it's not just generating some ish... It just... doesn't "zerg"... whatever that may be....

EDIT: Well... I think I'm gonna turn in... seriously, oncbrze, thanks for all of your help. It looks like I'm just gonna have to wait a little while longer for this to work for me. I'll keep my eyes peeled for updates and the like. Again, thanks for your time. It was time well spent, good Sir.

Sir Oncbrze... That's fitting!
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Not sure yet about revolutionary but with unrevoked there were times where you had to do a factory reset to get it to start. For some reason there was data or apps that could cause it to not start up. Might be something to try here if you have not already. This will cause you to lose all your data though so use my backup pro or something similar to backup your user data if you want it saved.
 
So do you have to be logged in as administrator on computer would it make that big of a difference

Thanks
 
Krubag said:
So do you have to be logged in as administrator on computer would it make that big of a difference

Thanks
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I don't think it would make a difference. Admin access on a windows pc usually is just for installing programs and such. To run something through a usb connection shouldn't be a problem for a normal user account.
 
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