[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkgiant:
Hello,

I have had my MyTouch 4G since January of 2011, and today I decided to finally root my phone (growing sick and tired of HTC sense and the tremendous bloatware lag with it). I still like the phone itself (perfect size), and so I was came across CM7, it looks like it is the most stable and popular rom for the MyTouch.

Of course, I myself, I am an IT professional, but have no idea on what the rooting process is, so I have been following the steps CM team has posted on rooting my android device (wiki(dot)cyanogenmod(dot)org/w/Install_CM_for_glacier). I was currently in the process of downgrading the android version, and came across an error. So according to this guide, it said if you come across an $, your exploit has failed, if # you have gained temporary root.

That being said, I have came across the $ sign, which I assume is the exploit. I don't know why I have come across this error, and so, I have posted all the notes from my command line:

C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130729\sdk\platform-tools> ad

local/tmp

1366 KB/s (9796 bytes in 0.007s)

C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130729\sdk\platform-tools> ad

/data/local/tmp

1882 KB/s (589849 bytes in 0.306s)

C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130729\sdk\platform-tools> ad

/local/tmp

1753 KB/s (712688 bytes in 0.397s)

C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130729\sdk\platform-tools> ad

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/flashgc

/data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFFFF

adb shell

cd /data/local/tmp

./misc_version -s 1.00.000.0

./flashgc

exit $ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo

./misc_version -s 1.00.000.0

./flashgc

$ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

$ chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/flashgc

$ /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFF

fre3vo by #teamwin

Please wait...

Attempting to modify ro.secure property...

fb_fix_screeninfo:

id: msmfb

smem_start: 2fd00000

smem_len: 300000

type: 0

type_aux: 0

visual: 2

xpanstep: 0

ypanstep: 1

line_length: 1920

mmio_start: 0

accel: 0

fb_var_screeninfo:

xres: 480

yres: 800

xres_virtual: 480

yres_virtual: 1600

xoffset: 0

yoffset: 800

bits_per_pixel: 32

activate: 16

height: 80

width: 48

rotate: 0

grayscale: 0

nonstd: 0

accel_flags: 0

pixclock: 0

left_margin: 0

right_margin: 0

upper_margin: 0

lower_margin: 0

hsync_len: 0

vsync_len: 0

sync: 0

vmode: 0

Frame Buffer handle: 4

Buffer offset: 002ee000

Buffer size: 8192

Scanning region faa90000...

Scanning region fab80000...

Scanning region fac70000...

Scanning region fad60000...

Scanning region fae50000...

Scanning region faf40000...

Scanning region fb030000...

Scanning region fb120000...

Scanning region fb210000...

Scanning region fb300000...

Scanning region fb3f0000...

Scanning region fb4e0000...

Scanning region fb5d0000...

Scanning region fb6c0000...

Scanning region fb7b0000...

Scanning region fb8a0000...

Scanning region fb990000...

Scanning region fba80000...

Scanning region fbb70000...

Potential exploit area found at address fbbb5600:1a00.

Exploiting device...

I hope someone can help me out on this one... would be awesome if I can manage to root my phone and install the ROM all by today...

Thanks!