I'm having serious problems trying to root this phone. To start I wanted to use the rage method but I couldn't get HTC sync to work with my phone and windows 7 and adb to work. So I then used black prince method off of you tube using visionary r14. I did everything he said. When I press volume down and power I see it says s-off but when I type SU into the terminal it says permissions denied. I even see the superuser app on my phone. I then did some searching and people who have the same problem and they said to do temp root then go to the terminal and type /data/local/tmp/root then sync it again. Still no luck. Any ideas?
My next concern is I have been trying to boot into clockwork recovery with no luck. I have re flashed and flashed the current version's of recovery to many times to remember and did fix permissions. I can not boot into recovery. Any ideas?
What version of ROM is it that you are trying to root ? The latest 1.72 Desire Z ROM cannot currently be rooted.
You need S-OFF to flash a custom recovery. Are you saying you are trying to boot into stock recovery ? If so, when you see the screen with the red triangle/exclamation mark, hold Volume Up and press Power, and it should go into stock recovery.
Your phone isn't fully s off. You need to delete visonary completely off your phone. (Probably have to wipe). Then download pdanet app. And when you plug usb in your computer that should fix the driver problem. Then run rage. Don't do the lock in root command, then follow gfree tutorial, then try lock in root command. If it gives you an error, let me know which error and we can work around it. Pm me when you run into trouble.
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When i try to Reboot into Recovery after, Permaroot i cant do it keeps giving error message : Error occured whle attempting to run priveleged command !
+thanks to all for the guides, i have been able to root
ImPeCcAbLE said:
When i try to Reboot into Recovery after, Permaroot i cant do it keeps giving error message : Error occured whle attempting to run priveleged command !
+thanks to all for the guides, i have been able to root
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Could you tell what you have done so far? You know that permaroot doesn't affect your recovery right?
You ned to do radio s-off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
ibza said:
You ned to do radio s-off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
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Let the guy tell us first what he was trying to do/wants to achieve, after that we can start giving instructions...
Lemme start from the top till last night I was just another noob with a stock DHD... I began on reading the guides as to changing roms and **** first from addictivetips and then from sea forums ... so after all those reads I was finally able to reach until that clockwork recovery mod 3.0.0.6 ... once ii got there I didn't know what to do next as the guide just said after reaching clockwork mod I should just restart my phone did tht .... phone restarted fine now I went to ROM manager to check for the roms I saw a tweak and clicked it ... the window opened asking to backup and wipe data ... I just clicked wipe ... the phone went into tht clockwork screen started up with he new Rom.... after 25 mins I see tht nothing had changed on my cell and rather then getting new Rom I was just on my basic Rom and tht I didn't see those superuser, Rom manager abd even my own apps ... pissed me off so j factory reset the phone ...formatted the SD through pc and gave a fresh go like attempting the Rom on a right out of the box kinda desire ...
After working now the thing is o have rooted my phone again with those same steps ... just that this time once i restarted my phone through tht clockwork thing pressing my power off button so now when I goto enter into the recovery manager or even anyother I see an error msg of privelledge ... one more thing when I open th supweuser app I don't see Rom manager as allowed I just see
Visionary
Terminal emulator
As allowed
I hope understand what I have been through !
try and remove rom manager then re-install, when you try to reboot into recovery it will ask you about super user access you need to press "allow"
Done tht still giving the same error me and my ****ing luck ! Please someone
Ok. Go to your bootloader by holding volume down while rebooting. Then read us the first line.
Also get root checker from android market, and see if you are rooted. Then come back and tell us, and we can help you further.
it says
ACE PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.2007 (Pd9810000)
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMc-boot
system info
OS 1.32.405.6
CID-11111111
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checked ROOT check
Both Root Accest and Busybox installed
i tried re-installing ROM manager and rite now i cant open it .. it gives the FORCE close Error
still waiting
just did a fresh new installation of hboot and stuff.. now i can open up the clockword recovery mod with no probs... now cud someone please help as to how do i make a backup and install a NEW ROM
a thing to add i did make a backup from the Clockwork Recovery mod .. i can see that backup in my sdcard in the CRW folder .. please help wat to do next ?
usefull forum and lots of information,
Thanks Alot PPL and A LEGENDARYYYYYYYYYYY for XDA forums
Yet again Thanks for all the guides
Ok, So I originally rooted my HTC Evo with unrevoked and clockwork mod.. ive installed some roms and used rom manager and it works well for some roms.. but I have read that Amon-RA is better.. I have tried to change from clockwork to Amon Ra using rom manager and it says it flashes sucessfully but when I go into recovery it says my recovery is still clockwork mod.. does anyone know what would cause this?
this is a link for the PC36IMG.zip of amon ra, what you do is you download it, the put it on the root of your sd card. after that you unplug your phone from the computer, power off the phone, then holding volume down and power at the same time you turn on the phone into bootloader, your phone will recognize the zip automatically and ask you to update, select yes and it will flash amon ra to your phone.
link
http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=PC36IMG.zip
also for a more detailed description here is a link of the thread where the PC36IMG was found
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026&highlight=amon
I have tried this.. it checks the file on root and then skips the prompt to update..
The only time it does that to me is if I'm already on RA 2.3, maybe try going into ROM manager and clicking flash Clockwork Recovery, then try again with the PC36IMG.zip (I would redownload just to make sure you have the right one) on the root of your sd.
This happened to a friend of mines phone. I think it was set to S-On or something?
I just unrooted it and started over using the AutoRoot v2.4
I have tried this and the file I have is the one he posted I downloaded it and tried again.. still same problem.. it scans the file but does not ask me to update.. I flashed clockwork and tried then flashed ra mon and tried and still clock work mod recovery with no option to update to ra
omg I feel so stupid I just booted into recovery and looked at the top.... S-on Guess ill unrevoked forever again.. I could have sworn I turned it off before rooting my phone in the first place..
You are no longer rooted. Re-root your device.
UPDATE: my response is too late. I see you've figured it out...
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how is that possible.. I have been installing themes with no problem (ones that work with clockwork-mod) and I have super user permissions... only error I have is trying to flash recovery..
Update: Used unrevoked forever and had no problems turning s-off and installing amon-ra Thank you people for all of your help!
IIC0RRUPT10NII said:
how is that possible.. I have been installing themes with no problem (ones that work with clockwork-mod) and I have super user permissions... only error I have is trying to flash recovery..
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It happens sometimes. I've never experienced it, but others have. Oftentimes, people are impatient or they panic while waiting for their device to reboot thinking they've crashed and end up pulling the battery. Doing so can cause a variety of problems from no longer being rooted to the most damaging, causing the device to be bricked.
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Since I believe I have some related problems.
I got my HTC Desire yesterday and literally spent whole day playing with it, that is trying to root and flash a custom.
So I used the unrEVOked 3.21 and flash the Clockworkmod recovery, but I could never use that recovery because of "e: can't mount" and stuff; I google everything but never found anything viable.
Then, much to my dismay, I realised I missed a step in a rooting guide that told me to check my HDBOOT for pvt4 and then for erase size 40000.
If it was 40k I had to use a custom recovery such as amon ra, (I tried a lot of stuff meanwhile that seemed to have had little to no effect at all).
So I just reflashed with amonra and unrEVOked, but now I can't boot into recovery at all. Rest of the phone works as new, and I do still have the superuser icon in my apps.
And I'm sorry in advance for having my first post be a question, but yea, there's that.
Also, hi!
Mikstrup said:
Since I believe I have some related problems.
I got my HTC Desire yesterday and literally spent whole day playing with it, that is trying to root and flash a custom.
So I used the unrEVOked 3.21 and flash the Clockworkmod recovery, but I could never use that recovery because of "e: can't mount" and stuff; I google everything but never found anything viable.
Then, much to my dismay, I realised I missed a step in a rooting guide that told me to check my HDBOOT for pvt4 and then for erase size 40000.
If it was 40k I had to use a custom recovery such as amon ra, (I tried a lot of stuff meanwhile that seemed to have had little to no effect at all).
So I just reflashed with amonra and unrEVOked, but now I can't boot into recovery at all. Rest of the phone works as new, and I do still have the superuser icon in my apps.
And I'm sorry in advance for having my first post be a question, but yea, there's that.
Also, hi!
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Sending this before my class, but place this file on your sdcard [in no folder], boot into the bootloader [power phone off, hold vol+down while turning on] After it scans, apply update, reboot, reboot into recovery, and you should be on amon_ra 2.3. Anyone with questions, due to my brevity can pm if you have any other troubles.
Thanks, teh roxxorz, I'll try that as soon as I'm done with this lecture.
So I put that .img file on the drive that the phone makes on my pc. And booted it up in bootloader etc, though it does a quick scan, it simply says "wrong or no" file or something. I can barely even read it before it skips on.
And then when I try to boot it into recovery, it just does the same thing again. htc-splash screen and nothing else.
Mikstrup said:
So I put that .img file on the drive that the phone makes on my pc. And booted it up in bootloader etc, though it does a quick scan, it simply says "wrong or no" file or something. I can barely even read it before it skips on.
And then when I try to boot it into recovery, it just does the same thing again. htc-splash screen and nothing else.
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Are you 100% sure that you have root? If you open up terminal emulator on your phone and type in su do you get a #
I have occasionally seen it where even though you have super user you don't have root.
No, you are right. SU: Permission denied.
I have the super-user icon, though, and unrEVOked said everything went good.
So if that's the case, I'm even more lost since I thought I was at least rooted properly.
Since I have Android 2.2, do I just attempt rooting it with like youtube=X_N9DUsh3Mw (not allowed hyperlinking), instead? Bearing in mind I have no idea what the consequences can be of consistently attempting root, I just know that I'll probably have sadz if I brick it.
Also I just realised this isn't the forum for the Desire, which is what I own. I hope it isn't too much trouble.
And more edits: I get a # returned when I write su in the terminal emulator, now.
Just to verify you are now getting # after typing in su at the $ prompt in terminal emulator?
If so, try teh roxxorz's file again and see if that works.
Yea, I am. And I did try that again. Still to no avail.
Mikstrup said:
Yea, I am. And I did try that again. Still to no avail.
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When you boot into the bootloader, do you get s-on or s-off?
A few days ago, my dad called me about a HTC Evo 4G he just got. It's a replacement that someone got for him b/c his old one was broken. The issue is that the phone won't go past the "HTC" white screen. I told him to check the HBOOT and he says it's 2.10. The weird thing about it is that it says "S-ON".
I told him to "Clear Storage" from the bootloader... No success.
The only way I figured that this issue could be fixed was to root a custom ROM onto it.
PS: Steps commonly say to make sure that USB Debugging is on... If I'm unable to get the phone to load the stock ROM that's already on it... How could I do that? (If rooting is even possible)
I would go to the bootloader, mount it ad fastboot, then try to manually push a new boot partition extracted from a rom and use adb to do so.
If it's HBoot 2.10 and it's S-On, use the old Unrevoked to root, and that will also push Recovery on the phone.
Then, flash the pc36img of Amon Ra, get into recovery, wipe everything, every single thing ,except the SD Card and try to boot up, or flash a new ROM
a few weeks ago I wanted to get the 4.4.3 update on my M8 but being rooted and missing apps I couldn't, so I found the developer edition rom and flashed the rom then flashed the firmware.
the thing is I have had root access ever since with out the need to use SuperUser, a little concerned any APK could access the phone and make a Mess I downloaded chainfires SU from google store, it immediately told me I needed to up date the SU binary, I cancelled and backed out but the phone rebooted and factory reset as if it was trying to update the SU via recovery.
eventually the phone rebooted and guess what, I am now missing the same APK files as before.
is it possible that it is the superuser apk causing the loss of the other apks and not the rooting process?
I am now going to have to reflash the ROM when I get home, how ever this morning before work I wanted to flash it, but when I used "FastBoot Boot Trecvoery.img" (touch recovery) the phone just hung and did not boot into recovery, stock recovery, longer shows the usual htc phone and red triangle logo, instead it just shows a white screen with htc written in grey
the phone works fine, but how do I get the ROM to reflash if I cant boot into custom recovery, I do not want to flash custom recovery as I prefer stock everything until my warranty expires.
am I going to have to S-off and start again?