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[HTC Sensation] euki69:
Im having a problem and am wondering the same thing :/

It always gets to the part where it says finding exploit location.. and then exploit fails.

Ive tried hours and it always fails.

The steps i've taken were to start off with a fresh boot on pc and phone

disable htc sync.

drop fre3vo and all necessary files in the sdk tools folder

holdshift and right click to open cmd prompt in that folder.

and Follow OP's steps.

yet after countless times it still doesnt work for me..

i've also fresh rebooted and did the same steps with the rest of the methods. doesnt work :/
[HTC Sensation] eefurt:
exploit has failed

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp ; chmod 755 fre3vo ; ./fre3vo"

Locating access point...

Exploit area found. Please wait.

The exploit has failed.

I get this error message, but after that I can run the other commands and I'am able to install Titanium backup successfully.

any Ideas?

* rebooting and running commands again did it!* :)
[HTC Sensation] Just_s:
So I had this running perfectly this a.m. Other than Google Maps FC-ing constantly.

Then my GF borrowed my phone and inadvertently accepted an OTA. Now I get

Locating access point...
Exploit area found. Please wait.
the exploit has failed.

after running

adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp ; chmod 755 fre3vo ; ./fre3vo"

Current software shows 1.13.651.7 Am I screwed now?

EDIT: I just saw the post above me. Must have been posted while I left my post open earlier. Anyway, same question as above.

EDIT 2: After my third reboot, it works again!! Just precisely following the instructions in the OP works like a charm. I guess the OTA was no worries.
[HTC Sensation] jpbl1976:
Market Enabler works. I have had it installed and running for about a day now and have not encountered any errors.
[HTC Sensation] kazprotos:
Thanks guess I will be trying this once I get home... finally I can get my paid apps that are not available in Kenya :)
[HTC Sensation] Utking:
Marked enabler doesn't work here, won't ask for root =/
[HTC Sensation] kazprotos:
Now I'm home and so I won't try it hehe... hope we just get good old Nexus style perm-root s-off etc etc etc soon!

Anyone else want to test either of Market Enabler or Market Access?
[HTC Sensation] bsktballstar3131:
For those who were able to get setcpu to work without fc, could you please tell how you got it to work? No matter how many times I try and how many different things I do, it still fc...
[HTC Sensation] r0cky0790:
Download latest one

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505419

My ''xDU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rx'' shot you down in 3D!
[HTC Sensation] chesterr:
Guess I'll wait till a proper root comes out. :)
[HTC Sensation] nardone24:
adb shell cd /data/local/tmp ; chmod 755 fre3vo ; ./fre3vo

Exploit failed Even after a few reboots

adb shell mkdir /data/bin ; mv /data/local/tmp/fre3vo /data/bin/

mkdir failed for /data/bin, file exists

Any help would be cool i have searched this thread and only found about a reboot but i have rebooted 3-4 times now

and still same error... Im sure im missing a simple little thing here
[HTC Sensation] sosquidtaste:
I was getting this message a lot too, but it ended up working out for me anyways.

After another reboot and error message, I shelled into whatever temp directory was being created by the script (it ought to show up in the Command Prompt history). I verified that the files that needed to be moved were being moved-- they were all there even though I was getting error messages.**

Then I ran the root.bat and let it run, thinking that it wouldn't work. After making sure to uninstall/reinstall Titanium Backup (another user mentioned that as a source of his difficulties) from the Market, I was able to backup/restore with TB.

I wish I could give you more than anecdotal advice, but try it out anyways. Hopefully it works out for you?

**I get the feeling that this was in fact the reason why I was pulling error messages. I think I may have ran prepare.bat the first time and not watched my window well enough. Thinking it hadn't taken, I ran it again and perhaps the script didn't like having files where it expected to find none? Maybe this is similar to your situation as well?
[HTC Sensation] nicolas.k:
YES ! Excellent Joël.

Many thanks, I can dump ROM now...
[HTC Sensation] bsktballstar3131:
I do have the latest setcpu 2.2.3 but it still fc...idk what I'm doing wrong. My titanium backup works (thats the only other root app I've been using on this so far)
[HTC Sensation] fabioccoelho:
Cool

Great job @joel... thanks man ;)

Looking forward for possibilities to apply cwm recovery :D

[ ]'s
[HTC Sensation] r0cky0790:
You have to rerun the the temp root process. You've lost root access. Titanium still works because it downloads its own busy box. Before running the temp root process again reboot your phone.

My ''xDU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rx'' shot you down in 3D!
[HTC Sensation] bsktballstar3131:
Which device do you select from the welcome screen? I'm still getting fc :( I reboot and do adb shell /data/bin/fre3vo and /data/bin/root.sh
[HTC Sensation] Shaquiel Harris:
i think gingerbreak might have actually worked after using that root method.. got a phone call while it was doing it and it seemed to mess it up.. very annoyed.
[HTC Sensation] r0cky0790:
What? Why are you running adb. The zip in this thread does it for you. All you have to do is download better temp root. Extract it. Place all the files in your android sdk/tools folder. Run the prepare script. Then run the root script. It's that easy. Make sure you have superuser downloaded from the market prior to doing this.

My ''xDU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rx'' shot you down in 3D!
[HTC Sensation] ys222:
package

if someone have time and knowledge to make it UI interface with 2 options (Pre + every time), it will be nice
[HTC Sensation] lordlad:
everything works nice & dandy for me but Titanium Backup won't work as it said it's not rooted...

oh well..
[HTC Sensation] amarkovits:
Market Access

For those who want to use Market Access here is a solution.

Download and install this apk: http://goo.gl/VHPyf

It is a modified version from the market enabler repository: http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/

I only modified it to look for superuser in /data/bin

I take no credit for this application. If it is useful for you please donate to the market enabler team.
[HTC Sensation] lordlad:
doesn't work for me ;(

still same error message.
[HTC Sensation] nbicho:
I had the same problem...

I clicked on "Problems?" and then on "Get BusyBox", restarted TB and root acess :cool:
[HTC Sensation] RADLOUNI:
Thanks Man

Thanks a TON man, it works ..........................

is there a guide on how to modify APKs so that they would look for su in /data/bin

I have a couple of other root applications that i would like to modify
[HTC Sensation] amarkovits:
For Market Access the source code is available on their site so it was easy to modify it. For other apps if you don't have the source code I don't know what could you do.
[HTC Sensation] mikeyxda:
Anyone try Barnacle WiFi Tether on this setup?

Mike
[HTC Sensation] theintelligent:
It is quite simple actually.

- Decompile them using smali

- Find the su in the decompiled files

- replace it with /data/bin/su

- Recompile it using smali

- Sign it

- Install it
[HTC Sensation] mikeyxda:
Thanks so much for the batch files you created! I hope you don't mind but I needed to modify the prepare.bat and root.bat files to get them to work on my Win7 x64 machine with my Evo 3D and I've attached the modified ones that work for me.

I downloaded and tried the batch files from this post and tried them on my Win7 x64 machine and my Evo 3D. I had already installed the Win7 x64 drivers for the phone from here for the x64 drivers (go here for the 32 bit drivers). So I knew my phone would connect.

The problem was, right after the batch file runs ./fre3vo, the phone drops it's USB connection and then about a second later reconnects as evidenced by the Windows standard USB disconnect/reconnect sounds (dee-doh...pause... doh-dee). What was happening is that all lines following ./fre3vo in the batch file would fail because the phone didn't have a chance to reconnect via USB and it was offline at the time. I simply inserted a "hacked" 5 second pause after the fre3vo execution and that fixed it for me.

Hope this helps someone else: I suspect maybe not all Windows installations have the USB disconnect/reconnect so maybe it only affects Win7 x64.

BTW, Barnacle WiFi Tether works with this setup! In settings, the first checkbox for "skip wpa_supplicant" is the only one I have checked. The other three are unchecked. It didn't work the first time until I messed with the settings but now it works every time!

Mike
[HTC Sensation] dadoc04:
worked great for me... thanks a bunch
[HTC Sensation] joel.bourquard:
Hi Mike,

Just want to confirm that the device is really disconnecting for a second or so, just after the exploit runs, also on Linux. So it's definitely the phone itself that does it, not the host machine.
[HTC Sensation] sosquidtaste:
For whatever it's worth, I've noticed the same disconnect gap when running root.bat on my Windows 7 32-bit machine.

Running root.bat a second time appears to do the trick for me, as there are no subsequent gaps-- don't know if that's normal or not.

Thanks again to both Mike and joel for these awesome tools.
[HTC Sensation] Spusser:
Hallo,

Great job, but.....how should i connect the device? As harddrive or Sync?

Sorry for this stupid question.

Thomas
[HTC Sensation] motoman234:
Charge only.
[HTC Sensation] Drekonai:
FINNALY! It worked for me! You guys are great :)

For the members that have problems:

1. Install the RUU over the phone again so everything is clean.

2. Get your phone synchronized with your PC through "HTC Sync".

3. Use the instructions on the [GUIDE] (For Noobs) SDK, ADB, and Drivers topic

4. Install Superuser, titanium backup and busybox from the market.

5. After you followed that guide and installed the programs copy all the files from the sensationroot.rar to your "AndroidSDK\tools" folder.

6. Than run the "Prepare.bat" (tip: edit the bat file and set Pause at the end, so you know what will go wrong when it happens)

7. If you get errors, reboot the phone and execute the prepare.bat again.

8. After that run Titanium Backup and superuser will ask for permissions.

9. ENJOY!

Credits to everyone except me :P
[HTC Sensation] kftgr:
Had trouble getting things to work until I did multiple reboots. Might have also helped that I Force Stopped Superuser and TB before running the commands.

Btw, what exactly does root.sh do?
[HTC Sensation] joel.bourquard:
root.sh remounts /data with the SUID bit, which allows Android apps to execute SU to obtain root privileges afterwards.

Too bad HTC doesn't mount /data with SUID bit in the first place - that would allow us to temp-root without the need for ADB, I think...
[HTC Sensation] mikeyxda:
Yeah, I'm learning as I go. I was trying to figure a way to put a startup script in there that could run the fre3vo program when the boot process is complete. As far as this Android greenhorn can tell, it can't be done (without adb).

FWIW, I packaged up the stuff from this thread plus my (minor) batch file mods and put it in my "home" 3vo group here. I hope I gave appropriate recognition/thanks.

Mike
[HTC Sensation] mikeyxda:
For those having trouble with the driver links, try this link. It's kind of a convoluted mess with countdowns, etc. but seems like the files are there. I haven't verified them yet though.

Mike
[HTC Sensation] Konstigt:
Doesn't work for me. Exploit failed even though I try multiple times. I have a EU Sensation with 1.35.401.1... is the updated sw the problem?

I think I recall reading in some other thread that the root exploit still should work after the update.
[HTC Sensation] amarkovits:
it is working for me even after the update.
[HTC Sensation] PandaKiller:
You deserve a kiss man ;)

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
Can someone check whether Droidwall works?
[HTC Sensation] benko286:
Any differences between this and similar thread here ?
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
As that other option notes in its Q&A:

The advantage of the method presented in this thread is that root is not lost till reboot. With that other option my "might" happen to lose it sometime before reboot.
[HTC Sensation] gbzbar:
However, in the OP of this thread, it states:

Eugene's method should work for all root apps, and includes busybox for the apps that require it.

And honestly, the "fixit" script is only a fallback in case something weird happens and root is lost, but after running the root for hours and hours, I've not lost it yet.

But whatever method works best for you is the one you should use. :)
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
And there are other differences as well. I think someone wanting to choose needs to read for themselves instead of simply relying on our citations. But I only pointed out the one difference since the OP felt compelled to mention it in the subject. Some more root apps than just Titanium Backup have been found to work, so I felt no need to mention that. (They're also mentioned in the initial post further down.) I'm certainly not making any effort to mention all the differences and of course you're not either. I'll let them read some more of the first post in each thread, because there's plenty for them there ;) .
[HTC Sensation] smakked:
Ok installed this all went ok but cant get titanium backup to work asks doe root privleges and tells me i dont have them?
[HTC Sensation] Darnell_Chat_TN:
Did you install the SuperUser app?
[HTC Sensation] deeoh1084:
did anyone get drocap2 to work with this root method?? because it keep saying failed to execute drocap2
[HTC Sensation] joel.bourquard:
Yes it does work, but you need to put "su" and "busybox" in the PATH. If you already have /data/bin/su, you can do this:

mount -o remount,rw rootfs /
mkdir /vendor/bin
ln -s /data/bin/su /vendor/bin/su
mount -o remount,ro rootfs /

You'll probably need to copy a version of busybox to /vendor/bin/ too. In case you have Titanium Backup you can simply use its Busybox for Drocap2:

mount -o remount,rw rootfs /
ln -s /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files/busybox /vendor/bin/busybox
mount -o remount,ro rootfs /
[HTC Sensation] dlads:
I've now got s-off, if i run this will it be permanently rooted?

Sorry if this is a little obvious, i just want to do this all by the numbers.

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] joel.bourquard:
Now that we have S-Off, this is pretty much obsolete. This disappears after a reboot anyway.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordtinuviel:
using [ROM] Synergy - [RC1 06/27/2011] (love it) is there a way to remove the news account? thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bimmerman7:
Try using Titanium Backup to uninstall or freeze.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordtinuviel:
Ok, will do..I hope it doesnt break anything
[Epic 4G General] pissinguoff247:
I've seen a few threads pop up about Best Buy's rapid exchange - whether or not it exists is still a big question. I've seen threads that say they modified their policy back in April, but nothing definitive.

Does anybody know what Best Buy's current "Black Tie" policy is on broken phones? I.e. If I bring a busted Epic there, and I have Black Tie insurance, what do they do?
[Epic 4G General] twkniest:
Yes, I've done two already. One for myself and one for my wife. It takes between 2-4 for the whole process.
[Epic 4G General] pissinguoff247:
What do they actually give you? I've heard "new phone," "new phone minus battery and SD," etc.
[Epic 4G General] klownin816:
My wife did it a few weeks ago before we cancelled black tie. It took about the same as twkniest mentioned. 3-4 days. And we received a refurb. They make you keep your battery and sd card. They only replace the unit, with back cover. Way better than the 1 month she had to wait last time she sent in for repair... I guess best buy finally listened to all the complaints.
[Epic 4G General] 5FOOTER:
Here in Va they just give you a new phone at the store if in stock.
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
I disagree, it took a while and I got annoyed, but I was happy to get my own phone back.
[Epic 4G General] klownin816:
It must be hit or miss depending on the store you deal with. Pretty much one of the reasons we cancelled. That service is just unreliable.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
Since I manage a Geek Squad, I'll tell you how it works. First, there are two options, 1) get your original phone repaired, 2) get your phone rapid exchanged.

We do not and cannot exchange the phone outright in store. Phones cost upwards of $600. Exchanging it in store would be like giving someone a laptop because they dropped it.

If you choose to get your phone repaired it goes to Jabril. Repairs can fluctuate between about 1.5 weeks to a little over 30 days. If the phone has been at Jabril over 30 days and still isn't repaired, we can request an exchange authorization (this actually happens automatically). You would then get credit for the value of the phone (not what you paid but the subsidy as well) so you can buy a new phone outright. This means no change in your contract terms and you can choose whatever phone you want including an upgrade if you want to pay the difference. Repairs also qualify towards "no lemon." If they cant get the repair correct after 3 times trying with repairing/replacing a part then it gets sent out, inspected, and then authorized for a junk out.

If you choose to get your phone rapid exchanged the phones are like new some of them seem to even be brand new. Sometimes they come back with all accessories but that is not the way it is designed. In general we will get the phone and back cover, nothing else. As soon as a rapid exchange tag is created, one gets cross shipped to us before we even send the phone out to he repair facility. this generally takes 1-3 business days. We have had instances of creating tags in the evening and receiving the rapid exchange phone the following morning. Rapid Exchanges on phones do not currently qualify for no lemon. In addition, as the phone ages, the chance increases that we will end up with a substitute sku for the rapid exchange. Substitute skus are generally upgrades to the new model, but sometimes are fairly different phones. For instance, for a brief period, the EVO Shift was appearing as a substitute for the EVO. It is likely that in about a year, the Epic 2 will be the substitute for the Epic because they will not have enough stock of the old epic/parts to repair them. In this way Rapid Exchanges also end up in upgrades as the phone ages and helps you retain more value by the time you are ready to get a new subsidized phone.

If you have any other questions let me know.
[Epic 4G General] ThrIsNoSpork:
All phones are rapid exchange per SOP now. of its backordered the store may just exchange it for you but that depends on the managers...
[Epic 4G General] skippyjarro:
To avoid disappointment, never expect an exchange in the store as it violates SOP. Also, you don't technically get your choice of phone if your phone gets sent out for repair and gets approved for junkout. If they have your model in stock, that's what you get. Exceptions are made on a case by case basis. FINALLY, it's easier to attract flies with sugar than with vinegar...ie, don't be rude to the associate helping you or things will not go your way. Customer service does not mean customer servant. Just a friendly fyi to my xda homies. much love and respect to you guys.
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
All phones DEFAULT to rapid exchange now. It is NOT required to rapid exchange phones if the client does not want to (IPhones I believe are the only lone exception to this although blackberrys may be as well). As I stated before, rapid exchanges on phones currently do not count towards no lemon.

Actually yes you do get to choose the phone you want, or any item for that matter, when it is to be exchanged. If your store isn't doing this, then you aren't following SOP. In fact this is why Best Buy changed the return system so that when you do a junkout/no lemon exchange it is returned in store credit. If that model is currently still in stock you get a store credit for the current unsubsidized price of that phone. You don't even have to get another phone, you could spend the money on a TV if you wanted. The value of the store credit, you don't have say over. It is for the comparable item, not to exceed the original purchace price (ie $199 contract price + $400 subsidy = $599 original purchase price). All stores will work this as an exchange though as it is unhelpful to have someone walk out the door with $600 store credit and no device to replace what they lost.

As for exchanging a phone outright, any store that does this is choosing to take a known loss of the unsubsidized cost of the phone when they do this (usually around $600). It's akin to "I feel bad about your situation, here have a new laptop on us." The store that does the exchange will take a P&L hit on the returned item as they will receive no credit for it. A lot of stores are bad at managing their Store Warranty reports as a lot of DCIS are incorrectly fixated on "No Fault Founds" as being the way to correct the metric. The biggest loss on store warranty in a whole is almost always bad return/exchanges. Many stores do not know how to manage this type of negative on their P&L and may not even be aware that it is occuring. Often times there is a thought that if something goes PRC that the store will get credit. This means they do not monitor the detail report showing all their rejected credits.
[Epic 4G General] BBlunts456:
So basically if we wanted to upgrade early we could just "break" our phone and exchange it say for a Moment?lol
[Epic 4G General] Aneirin:
You are limited to two screen replacements before the plan is considered fulfilled. If you send the phone in for repair and have it repaired three different times (not rapid exchange), then the next time you send it in for repair they cite the previous repairs, send it out where it is inspected to show the need for another hardware repair after which it gets approved for exchange under the no lemon policy.
[HTC EVO 3D] ckoadiyn:
i saw a thread in the EVO 4G forums for this and it seems like a good idea and started ok over there. Lets keep this one clean and not mess it up like the other one that someone else tried to do. Click here for EVO 4G forum for XDA circle.

PLEASE NO INVITE REQUESTS

https://plus.google.com/117562790126725135626/posts?hl=en&tab=wX#108525057796470657163/posts
[XPERIA X2 General] indycar:
ok lads i havent confirmed yet but since last charging my x2 batt lasted 6 days!!!!! and the only thing i did difrently was chargin when phone was turned off.

the usage of the phone was as usual in the past 6 days. today im rechargin it again (turned off) and will post results of the batt juice drain in the following days
[Captivate Accessories] sepherian:
I have been looking around for a month or so and cannot find a dock like this. All I want it to do is charge my phone, have the ability to play music as an alarm, play that alarm through external speakers, and be able to play media through the speakers.
[Captivate Accessories] nomfish:
I am interested in this too
[Captivate Accessories] ronkoni:
Did you try Alarm clock plus?

i believe it does what you want.
[Captivate Accessories] buzato:
will be hard to find
[Captivate Accessories] boborone:
If dig around in this section, there is a thread with a ton of homemade docks. Maybe that can help. Miami_Son had one made by Samsung. Not sure if he still does. They do exist though.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] misterrium:
hey i updated my hd7 to mango but the search button just opens ie and goes to bing.com i can not experience the whole that bing experience
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] misterrium:
sorry solved the issue. after changing zone from turkey to uk it got corrected