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

Marcisawesome said:
ra says its flashing the rom but i go to restart the phone and it just goes back to the bootloader and then back to ra
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Hmm.. So you get into amon ra, flash cm7, then after it flashes cm7 it reboots into recovery?
You could try to flash Amon Ra again... or re-download it (check the md5 sum possibly)
 
9to5cynic said:
Yeah me neither. And the IRC people of the world are a bit short. Got a thorough bashing with that copy and paste business eh (posting your error message)?

Well, the stock rom is what you have from sprint. I actually mis-spoke with stock rooted. You have s-on and are not rooted. Sorry. Just wanted to make sure this thing hadn't bricked ya. Your phone is still working?
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Ya, phone still works thankfully. What is a NAND anyway?
 
Marcisawesome said:
already tried to redo ra and it gives me an error when i try to do that. I think I have a fancy paper weight till I can hit the sprint store
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ok i'm late to the party but i can start helping out.
have you tried to redownload cm7? sorry if this has been asked already. i just skimmed the post here. have you tried a different rom? what are you wiping?
 
Marcisawesome said:
already tried to redo ra and it gives me an error when i try to do that. I think I have a fancy paper weight till I can hit the sprint store
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Did you try to re-download the amon ra file? check the md5 sum to make sure the file is whole.

I don't think you're at the paper weight stage quite yet.

Do you have any nandroid backups? You could try to restore one of those.
 
Well ocean looks liked you seriously have your hands full..lol I am rooting tomorrow I am guessing after all these posts you have edited the op. I might have to ask you what the root of your sd card means (lol). But besides that any quorks been ironed out sense the edited O.P.. Much thanks to you.. and by the way your doing an awesome job as a guide
 
@HAMBO: Well, the IRC folks said it was a hardware error, so maybe try returning it to sprint with some hardware issue? You'd get back the same hboot version (hopefully ;) ), so you'd be able to root that.
 
HAMBO said:
Ya, phone still works thankfully. What is a NAND anyway?
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9to5 is right a nand is what allows you to write onto the system partitions. without nand unlocked you cant flash a rom. s-off is for securities. this just assigns who have access to the system partitions. it does not allow you to write to it. most temp root that you here just turns the securities off only allowing you to run root required apps like titanium backup. i hope that makes sense.
 
i load my nandroid backups but it still just restarts to bootloader then back to ra. ive downloaded ra from 2 diff places it gives me an error saying cant open
 
beastinbolts said:
Well ocean looks liked you seriously have your hands full..lol I am rooting tomorrow I am guessing after all these posts you have edited the op. I might have to ask you what the root of your sd card means (lol). But besides that any quorks been ironed out sense the edited O.P.. Much thanks to you.. and by the way your doing an awesome job as a guide
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haven't seen you in a while beastinbolts. I thought you were already rooted, no?


Ocn, marcisawesome is having issues with both clockwork recovery and amon ra, said they kept getting bootloops, and now can't flash roms. Don't know if they made a nandroid or not yet,
 
beastinbolts said:
Well ocean looks liked you seriously have your hands full..lol I am rooting tomorrow I am guessing after all these posts you have edited the op. I might have to ask you what the root of your sd card means (lol). But besides that any quorks been ironed out sense the edited O.P.. Much thanks to you.. and by the way your doing an awesome job as a guide
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thank you gonna add some more info to the guide at some point. any ideas that you think you want added pm me. i think gonna add info on nandroids and how to flash a rom.
 
Marcisawesome said:
i load my nandroid backups but it still just restarts to bootloader then back to ra. ive downloaded ra from 2 diff places it gives me an error saying cant open
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What is giving you there error? The amon ra file should be loaded as "PC36IMG.zip" from the root of the sd card. Is it the first menu you come to that gives you the error?
 
ocnbrze said:
9to5 is right a nand is what allows you to write onto the system partitions. without nand unlocked you cant flash a rom. s-off is for securities. this just assigns who have access to the system partitions. it does not allow you to write to it. most temp root that you here just turns the securities off only allowing you to run root required apps like titanium backup. i hope that makes sense.
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Thanks, all I really want to do is run Barnacle to use as a wifi, but I'm still S-on and can't seem to get to S-off using Revolutionary because of the error I mentioned. So am I SOL on this one?
 
HAMBO said:
Thanks, all I really want to do is run Barnacle to use as a wifi, but I'm still S-on and can't seem to get to S-off using Revolutionary because of the error I mentioned. So am I SOL on this one?
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Hate to say it, but that's what it's looking like. Especially how the IRC folks seem to know about this issue saying that they were working on it (or something to that effect).
 
HAMBO said:
Thanks, all I really want to do is run Barnacle to use as a wifi, but I'm still S-on and can't seem to get to S-off using Revolutionary because of the error I mentioned. So am I SOL on this one?
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ok lets try this backup your sd card on your computer. on your phone reformat it. it will erase everything. next lets do a factory reset on your phone. then lets try revolutionary again.
 
9to5cynic said:
haven't seen you in a while beastinbolts. I thought you were already rooted, no?


Ocn, marcisawesome is having issues with both clockwork recovery and amon ra, said they kept getting bootloops, and now can't flash roms. Don't know if they made a nandroid or not yet,
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I was but had to get a new evo.. Camera crapped out on me. And the new phone came with 2.3.3. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my how I have been waiting got this exploit
 
ocnbrze said:
ok lets try this backup your sd card on your computer. on your phone reformat it. it will erase everything. next lets do a factory reset on your phone. then lets try revolutionary again.
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Hmm.. that could probably get rid of the bad blocks right? Good call.
 
ocnbrze said:
ok lets try this backup your sd card on your computer. on your phone reformat it. it will erase everything. next lets do a factory reset on your phone. then lets try revolutionary again.
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That's the spirit! :D

I actually have a spare SD card (unused) at my office from another EVO (someone replaced their phone and kept their old card) so rather than reformat mine maybe I can just pop that one in tomorrow, factory reset my phone and give it another go?
 
beastinbolts said:
I was but had to get a new evo.. Camera crapped out on me. And the new phone came with 2.3.3. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my how I have been waiting got this exploit
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Ahhh that sticks. Too bad. But the wait is over, and I'm sure you appreciate root a lot more that I do, seeing how you had to give it up for a bit.
 
HAMBO said:
That's the spirit! :D

I actually have a spare SD card (unused) at my office from another EVO (someone replaced their phone and kept their old card) so rather than reformat mine maybe I can just pop that one in tomorrow, factory reset my phone and give it another go?
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sound like a plan. crosses finger:)
 
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