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Root Walk Me Thru Rooting My Eris

scotty85 said:
im thinkin you are a little bit confused. there is only one way to root the phone,and that way uses the app "gscript lite" to run the 2 files wich root your phone,then install the custom recovery needed to flash the roms.

xtrsense is a ROM,not a method of rooting. please note that you do not actually have to flash a rom as part of the rooting process. as metlcatsaid,you will follow the directions/pictures until figure 38. at this point,you can simply click on "reboot system now" with the tracball and boot back into your stock,but rooted, rom. after reaching this point,you have the option to download and use titanium backup to backup your apps. as was said,get the paid version as well,as it makes things a BUNCH easier when switching roms around :)

if you do want to change to a new rom,continue to figure 40,at wich time you will select xtrSense that you have previously placed on your SD card.



make sure all your contatcs are google contacts,and not phone contacts. that way when you sync with google,they will all come back. go to settings/accounts and sync/ and sync with google after chaging everything to "google" contacts.

as for the apps,if you boot back to your stock rooted rom at figure 38 as i described above,it will let you dowload titanium for root users and back up your apps. that way when you change your rom it will be easy as pie to restore them.

hope that helps clear up a couple things :)
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Well said. :D
 
Yes I was a bit confused. Now I understand everything a little better. The only thing is, is how do I make my contacts google contacts? Other than that I'm ready to mess with doing the root when I get home from work.
 
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
Yes I was a bit confused. Now I understand everything a little better. The only thing is, is how do I make my contacts google contacts? Other than that I'm ready to mess with doing the root when I get home from work.
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i cannot recall exactly... im not on a stock rom now,so i cant easily check for ya,but look at a contact... at the top it should say "phone" or "google". if it says phone,you should be able to edit the contact and find a place to change it to google.

hopefully someone can chime in here and provide a little more detail.

once you figure out how,you will have to go thru each one and change them all to google. when youre done with that,youll want to go to accounts and sync,and make your phone sync with google so that theyll all resync later. :)
 
What on google is it syncing to? I only have my account for the market. Hmmm, I need to make sure that I save all my downloaded but free ringtones. I did have an issue the first time I downloaded gscript. It didn't give me the roots. So I took it off and put out back on, and now they are there. I'm getting exited now. Less than 2 hours and I get to go home.
 
OK, so I got everything going and I did the part 1 of the root. Before I do the second part I have a couple questions. First being if I do the second part now will I be loosing everything on my phone right now since I don't have a back up program right now? I have my sms backed up....I want to back up my apps. Do I have to wait until the rooting is done and just stay out of the root program of my phone? I'm throwing random questions out here that I may have asked already...I'm anxious. I synced my contacts to my gmail account. Will that get them back?
 
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
OK, so I got everything going and I did the part 1 of the root. Before I do the second part I have a couple questions. First being if I do the second part now will I be loosing everything on my phone right now since I don't have a back up program right now? I have my sms backed up....I want to back up my apps. Do I have to wait until the rooting is done and just stay out of the root program of my phone? I'm throwing random questions out here that I may have asked already...I'm anxious. I synced my contacts to my gmail account. Will that get them back?
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If your contacts are synced to your gmail account, they will automatically be restored to your phone.

You will not lose anything off of your phone until you go to flash the ROM and wipe data/factory and wipe dalvik. I don't have time to check which step this would be cause I'm between classes right now, but someone should be able to let you know. Basically when you are roooted, but before you flash a ROM you'll go into your phone normally, download titanium backup, backup your apps, and then you can proceed. Just be careful what you restore. System apps and system data restores can cause problems.
 
I just want the ones that I have downloaded to come back. And hopefully with some of them being ringtone apps that hold the ringtones to the app I'll get the ringtones back as well. Anyways, I have done both roots and now am going to get titanium backup going. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I don't loose everything. I shouldn't but I don't have much in the way of good luck with stuff like this is all. Let's see what happens! :)
 
OK, I have done both roots now and downloaded titanium backup but it keeps telling me that it won't work because it can't detect the root. How am I suppose to back up my stuff if I have to fully root it with the rom in order for it to detect the root?
 
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
OK, I have done both roots now and downloaded titanium backup but it keeps telling me that it won't work because it can't detect the root. How am I suppose to back up my stuff if I have to fully root it with the rom in order for it to detect the root?
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Do you have the superuser app? You should. Open the superuser app and see If TiB is listed. If it is clink on that and you should have a popup that ask's you to give permission to root access.
 
Ok the heck with it. I'm going to finish the root. No matter what app I put on my phone the back up won't work, along with the other apps that are suppose to make the backup one work. Here goes!
 
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
Ok the heck with it. I'm going to finish the root. No matter what app I put on my phone the back up won't work, along with the other apps that are suppose to make the backup one work. Here goes!
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I thought you were rooted already.:eek: Do you have the rom of your choice downloaded and in the root of your sd card? The rom will have the superuser app in it so after you flash the rom then you can use TiB.
 
Yep, no worries....I finished by doing the last steps of the process. I'm staring at the xtrsense logo on my phone right now. It's taking awhile though....
 
Ok,got it going and so far it's good. I kept all my pics and ringones but noje of my contacts will come back. I know I saved them to my card and synced with my gmail. Oh well, guess I'll be doing later....manually entering contacts. Oh and sms didn't carry over. Btw, anyone else on here put swype text on your eris? I did but now I have to do it all over again. :mad:
 
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
Ok,got it going and so far it's good. I kept all my pics and ringones but noje of my contacts will come back. I know I saved them to my card and synced with my gmail. Oh well, guess I'll be doing later....manually entering contacts. Oh and sms didn't carry over. Btw, anyone else on here put swype text on your eris? I did but now I have to do it all over again. :mad:
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you cannot save contacts to the sd card,and sync them with gmail,that i know of,so if you did that,then you prolly did not sync them with google.(gmail)

you did make a nand backup,right? you can boot back into recovery,make a backup of xtr sense,and then restore your stock backup. all your contacts and apps will be there. as soon as you get it back up,we can help you get titanium working so you can back up the apps,and figure out how to sync your contacts with google,so they will come back as well. you wont have to manually re-enter anything :)

as far as swype goes,it will be included in the backup that you make with titanium,so youll be able to restore it when you come back to xtr sense :)
 
metlcat said:
With Titanium, try hitting the "Problems" button. It will download busybox and that might help to get it working.
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yes,it prolly will. every time ive had trouble with titanium,that has fixed it... i dint want to overload him with info,so i was gonna wait till he had his stock rom back up and running before bringin that up :D
 
Well as far as I know I just synced them to gmail. Now something interesting, I went into file manager and some of my stuff was there. For some reason though some of my ringtones are not right. The name is one thing but it plays something else. Also I have doubles the stock ring tones. I'm figuring some stuff out as I go which is fun but I already learned my phone once. So this is like relearning it. And I'm dying without swype. Lol. I have the downloader but can't remember my login.
 
Alright, I have superuser busybox and titanium backup. All of them work just fine now that I'm rooted. Now I made a nand backup of my original just like the step by step said. Is it as simple as going back into the boot screen and selecting to restart on the stock rom?
 
Yup, it's pretty much that simple. :)
1)boot into recovery
2)make a backup of your current xtrSense
3)wipe data/cache/dalvic cache just like you did before installing the rom.
4) choose the restore option and pick your stock rom backup(the numbers correspond to the date made)

Now you can backup your Apps with titanium, after installing it on that rom. :)
 
Ok so I did all that and when I restarted my phone it got stuck on the 3 droids on skateboards. I'm trying it again to see what happens. I'm also going to read thru the root process to make sure I'm not missing any steps.
 
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