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Root The PRS Complete Rooting Guide

No, by merely rooting your phone and installing the custom recovery, you won't lose anything.

When you start installing custom roms, that's when everything gets wiped.


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I'm also stuck at this part.

Code: 
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su  /* IF YOU GET AN ERROR HERE DO rm /system/xbin/su THEN REDO */

This is what I am getting

Code: 
# ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln: /system/xbin/su: Permission denied
# rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
rm: cannot remove '/system/xbin/su': No such file or directory
# ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln: /system/xbin/su: Permission denied
# rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
rm: cannot remove '/system/xbin/su': No such file or directory
# ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
ln: /system/xbin/su: Permission denied
# chmod 06755 su
chmod 06755 su
chmod: su: Operation not permitted
 
Yaksha, make sure that you re-download the exact files from the 10 min video, they are different than the ones you download from Unrevoked. That will fix your issue.
 
SoccerCore11 said:
Yaksha, make sure that you re-download the exact files from the 10 min video, they are different than the ones you download from Unrevoked. That will fix your issue.
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Thanks. You're right, I disregarded what was in this thread and grabbed everything from the video thread and followed that and it worked beautifully.
 
So, I'm a little confused.

I've run through the primary way posted here to do this.

I'm not comfortable popping the SD in and out so I haven't tried that yet.

Am I correct that if I go buy the PNY 2GB card and use it instead of the one I have, this will work. Or does this make popping the card in and out work?

Thanks.
 
Before you buy a card, give it a shot without using the SD card popping in and out trick. I got mine working just fine with Method 2. Also, make sure you watch the 10 minute YouTube video, I think it explains things a little better than the text in this thread.

I have an 8GB Kingston card and it worked fine, no need to pop the SD card in and out. Also, I used the PDA net drivers since I already had PDA net installed, I didn't install HTC Sync.
 
I've been trying to push payload-update.zip for over an hour now and cannot get the timing down for the life of me. I've tried fast, slow, faster, slower, fasterer, etc. and nothing works.

I've noticed that the process:

Code: 
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.

happens practically instantly compared to the 10min video (seen at 6:00). In the video, his looks like it hangs on the Verifying update package... momentarily and this is when he hits the adb push command.

Anyone have any suggestions?!

Edit: OK I finally got it. I had to repush the ota.zip with the valid signature before retrying to push payload-update.zip.
 
For those wondering how to do the adb shell loop on a Mac (or Linux), just open a terminal, go to the sdk/tools dir and run the following

Code: 
while [[ true ]]; do ./adb shell; done
 
AaronBBrown said:
Wondering the same thing...
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You maintain ROOT!


stanfna said:
I FINALLY got it to work!!

I tried every little trick and here is what I noticed.

- unplug your phone from your USB cable
- turn your phone on normally...like you would every day. so you can use it.
- then don't power it down...just pull the battery out
- then press the optical jotstick & power button
- then follow the rest of the instructions listed in previous posts

i think for some reason...rebooting the phone into recovery from various states does not work (it did not for me). i think when you just kill the phone from it's normal state and then boot into recovery it works (it did for me).

i hope this helps!!!
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After rooting a couple phones, this way works almost all the time!
 
Yea but be VERY careful if you are returning a phone. A master reset does not erase /emmc/ so all your personal files remain.
 
Used method 3 with a second command prompt running loop.bat and utilizing the 2GB SanDisk that was free with the phone. I could not get it to work with my 8GB card though. Anyways, thanks to everyone that got this running. Soo much better now that I can just use the reflash tool!!!
 
any idea as to why I get "** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon" when I go in to recovery? It changes from the "device not found" to the aforementioned message, like it wants to recogonize it??


edit: n/m. found a thread on it.
 
Could someone possibly help me out. I have gotten all the way where you type
cat /sdcard/su > su and I am getting an error message....cat: can't open '/sdcard/su': No such file or directory. I have followed each instruction and can't figure this out.
 
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