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

[ocnbrze]

ok guys let keep this thread to questions on rooting. if you have other questions please create a new thread.

 

[Nein]

ocnbrze what do you mean when saying put it on the root of your card?

 

[ocnbrze]

ocnbrze what do you mean when saying put it on the root of your card?

not in any folder. top most level

 

[Nein]

*coughs* this will be a nooby question but top most of what? .. =/

 

[xximjdxx]

ocnbrze what do you mean when saying put it on the root of your card?

When you plug your phone into the computer, you can access the SD card as you would a thumb drive!! Simply DL the ZIP, DO NOT extract it, simply place it on the SD Card. Don't throw it in your phone's folder

 

[nirik]

Hey folks. Running into an issue here.

I get to step 5 just fine. It runs and I get a menu, where I see 'S-ON' at the top. I select bootloader and recovery. The phone then reboots. It gets to a picture of a phone with a red !

Pulling the battery and restarting it brings it back up.

The window where I ran the tool has:


Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!

Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Cleaning up...
Rebooting to fastboot...
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!
Waiting for fastboot...

Any thoughts?

 

[MicroPod]

revolutionary.exe running, accepted beta key, Zergin root... this may take a minute or more..
and nothing has happened for fifteen minutes!!! What should I do?

 

[julianru]

Finally I'm rooted thanks

 

[ocnbrze]

Hey folks. Running into an issue here.

I get to step 5 just fine. It runs and I get a menu, where I see 'S-ON' at the top. I select bootloader and recovery. The phone then reboots. It gets to a picture of a phone with a red !

Pulling the battery and restarting it brings it back up.

The window where I ran the tool has:


Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!

Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. Root acquired!
Sending in Caroline...
Cleaning up...
Rebooting to fastboot...
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!
Waiting for fastboot...

Any thoughts?

you can't get into recovery unless you have s-off. see below.

revolutionary.exe running, accepted beta key, Zergin root... this may take a minute or more..
and nothing has happened for fifteen minutes!!! What should I do?

try running unrevoked again

 

[ocnbrze]

*coughs* this will be a nooby question but top most of what? .. =/

just on your card. no folder or anything.

 

[Nein]

not letting me paste it into it.

Nvm i figured it out.

 

[jkd12589]

ok it accepted the beta key and has just been sitting here... it says thanks for participating.. nothing else.. do i have to be in bootloader mode to run this?

 

[kdub11]

nice i will add this to the op.

pls add instuctions too i know u know but...

 

[baltravens96]

I am rooted wooohooooooo

 

[ocnbrze]

pls add instuctions too i know u know but...

i did it is number 4 on before rooting
and step #9 is how to install it.

 

[bditty24]

1.download cm7 on to you card
2.go into recovery
3.make a nandroid backup
4.wipe dalvik cache, cache, and data
5.select install .zip from sdcard
6.find cm7 and flash it
7.reboot
1st boot will always be the longest so be patient.

uh i hate myself... had cm7 installed and working and my dumb self forgot to add google apps so went back installed gapps and now im stuck in boot loop

 

[MicroPod]

try running unrevoked again[/QUOTE]

It's still just sitting there again. Is there anything I should be doing on my phone? And I take it you meant rerun revolutionary.

 

[Bnice]

Can I do this on a Mac?

 

[d8n0g]

11.find the superuser file and flash it


I cant find this file

 

[ocnbrze]

uh i hate myself... had cm7 installed and working and my dumb self forgot to add google apps so went back installed gapps and now im stuck in boot loop

go into recovery and wipe dalvik cache and cache

 

[bfrench1990]

Man, thanks so much for posting this. And thanks to AlpharevX and unrEVOked for this awesome S-OFF tool.

 

[Nein]

when i go into hboot it has s-off but it says i have no images for any of the items it lists. do i have to download something?

 

[ocnbrze]

11.find the superuser file and flash it


I cant find this file

where did you put the file when yo transfered the file to your card? look for this file name su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed

 

[ocnbrze]

when i go into hboot it has s-off but it says i have no images for any of the items it lists. do i have to download something?

that is normal. just go into recovery from there.

 

[Nein]

kk i did that and it went to that phone with the triangle and exclamation mark? did i do something wrong?