Root Simplest solution for rooting from official Gingerbread

[ifb-online]

Now, before I get told off for duplicating other threads, I have spent hours reading other threads on this topic and although I am technically literate (I build my own PCs, did the Gingerbread update, can install programs on a linux web server) there is a limit to my confidence and the jargon on this topice is just excruciating!

So anyway - here is my situation. I did the HTC Gingerbread update and all has been well. But as most of us know now, the app space on system gets inexorably eroded away with updates, even by apps that install to SD space. I use Apps2SD. The memory situation on my Desire has become critical again.

I like the stock HTC UI with Sense and have no interest in other ROMs. All I want is to be able to be free of the app storage space problem. So what is the simplest way to achieve this goal?

Thanks in advance.

Ian

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Now, before I get told off for duplicating other threads, I have spent hours reading other threads on this topic and although I am technically literate (I build my own PCs, did the Gingerbread update, can install programs on a linux web server) there is a limit to my confidence and the jargon on this topice is just excruciating!

So anyway - here is my situation. I did the HTC Gingerbread update and all has been well. But as most of us know now, the app space on system gets inexorably eroded away with updates, even by apps that install to SD space. I use Apps2SD. The memory situation on my Desire has become critical again.

I like the stock HTC UI with Sense and have no interest in other ROMs. All I want is to be able to be free of the app storage space problem. So what is the simplest way to achieve this goal?

Thanks in advance.

Ian

use revolutionary to s-off the device and then follow the steps to flash recovery and backup the rom, flash super user via recovery to obtain root on the rom.
once done, follow the gparted guide to partition the sdcard to ext3 or 4
download an app called link2sd which will work in a similar way to a2sd without the need to change the rom

 

[ifb-online]

use revolutionary to s-off the device and then follow the steps to flash recovery and backup the rom, flash super user via recovery to obtain root on the rom.
once done, follow the gparted guide to partition the sdcard to ext3 or 4
download an app called link2sd which will work in a similar way to a2sd without the need to change the rom

I really appreciate the reply - but omg the jargon! But I will try!

Ian

 

[Rastaman-FB]

sorry about the jargon, these things are all explained in the guides though.

basically you need to read the guide to s-off and root via revolutionary
read the fastboot/adb faq
read the gparted faq

 

[ifb-online]

Is this right in comparably plain english?: In essence you need to make a backup of the ROM in your phone, root the OS, then restore the ROM to the phone? To do this you need to configure s-off because this provides access to the flash memory used by the OS in the phone, enabling the ROM restore.

Have I missed anything out?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Is this right in comparably plain english?: In essence you need to make a backup of the ROM in your phone, root the OS, then restore the ROM to the phone? To do this you need to configure s-off because this provides access to the flash memory used by the OS in the phone, enabling the ROM restore.

Have I missed anything out?

hi
you wouldnt normally have to s-off however you have installed the 2.3.3 RUU which is impossible to root without using revolutionary s-off.
making a nandroid backup can be done from recovery, this is recovery on 2.3.3 is flash via fastboot (command line) once s-off is achieved.
the backup facility is refered to as nandroid, essentially though it is actually a complete system/data/sd-ext image of your device.
if you mess up system or data or any changes for that matter, you can restore the nandroid (backup) and you will be right back to where you started from when you took the backup.
Flash memory is this case is "nand" it has various paritions within it and nandroid in most cases takes system, data, sd-ext and .android_secure