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[Droid Eris Android Development] jearl75:
Where is the OTA for the leak posted, PCD Phones?

EDIT: NM, I found it
[Droid Eris Android Development] SasoriSoren:
I know what you mean (looks at the 51 cents in wallet).
[Droid Eris Android Development] CCCP4ever:
leak to ota

I wonder who confirmed 2.1 ota on 2.1 leak install. And do you guys have the link if it exists =)
[Droid Eris Android Development] TopazAaron:
Installed it lastnight on my Leaked v3 Eris.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695593
[Droid Eris Android Development] homewmt:
Just curious, why?

leak 3 and ota are the same, really just a waste of time
[Droid Eris Android Development] TopazAaron:
i were bored lol, i needed a fresh install anyway
[Droid Eris Android Development] XC_eris:
T.A. You said you had errors when updating to the ota RUU right? what exactly were they? because I got an error during the update and I think Im bricked. (actually fine now, still not at ota)
[Droid Eris Android Development] TopazAaron:
like error 107, and low battery when i over 60+ charge.

but i used another computer and the usb cord that came with it and it worked
[Droid Eris Android Development] XC_eris:
Yeah. It didnt work with my windows 7, but worked fine in vista (first time Ive been glad I still have vista) :). And now im at OTA!
[Droid Eris Android Development] petec920:
hi all back again just got internet back lol thanks to my phone now to get back to the old boot loader (correct please if im wrong) could i go to verizon and have them flash my whole phone and it put me back so i could get root or would i have to get a NEW out of box phone?..... ive been searching and cant find an answer to the question
[Droid Eris Android Development] homer169:
I'm pretty sure the stores won't have that ability. Besides that, with nothing being wrong with your phone, would would they flash or replace it?

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[Droid Eris Android Development] nindoja:
There is no known way for Verizon to flash the old bootloader back on to your phone. It sounds as if new phones are coming with the new bootloader as well, so that option is probably out as well.
[Droid Eris Android Development] BlazinDANDAMAN:
Ahh...man...when will this happen...I wanna root!...damn v3...Is it ever gonna happen...I check everyday and still nothing...ahh gotta have patience...
[Droid Eris Android Development] lifyre:
At least now there will be increasing reason for Dev's to work on it with new phones seeming to ship with the new boot loader.
[Droid Eris Android Development] erisuser:
If I took my phone in to get a replacement (it actually is broken btw the lock button wore out) would the phone I got have 1.5 or 2.1 with hboot 1.49?
[Droid Eris Android Development] lifyre:
I have no clue if anyone has tried a hard-hack. It's not a very popular solution (though potentially viable) to this particular problem.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
Anyone have any ideas on how to use this RUU that is out with Windows 7? I tried the links on this sight, and it still simply locks at the botloader.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sincidius:
I've had hic ups with these bootloaders before. This is the step by step on how I get them to work.

1. Plug in phone, wait for all drivers to update.

2. Start RUU. Once it starts up, it should detect phone & open bootloader.

3. Once this starts, you should get the HTC screen on your phone. Windows should come up with a device driver install. Let it install. Meanwhile, your bootloader on the computer screen will keep counting bootloader (6,7,8,etc)

4. Once the driver is installed, it will prompt you to restart the computer so that changes will take effect. Restart, but DO NOT TOUCH PHONE OR UNPLUG PHONE. It should stay on the HTC screen.

5. Once the computer is restarted, open RUU loader again and start. It will detect phone & start bootloader, this time running to about 30% then the bar will start over. IT will begin to update files (radio & other stuff) and it will finish the load.

This works for all version leaks & will give your the OTA 2.1 release. You will loose all data off your phone (not SD card). You will loose root status (if you had it).

Now that we have that figured out, can we get back to the topic of 2.1 ROOT STATUS??
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
Perfect, worked like a charm. Thank you.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
So, back to root...I'm assuming that a dev already has this, but I came across the MR1 update that used to be posted on PCDphones. I have no idea how to extract anything from this RUU, but could anything from this be used to help us root?
[Droid Eris Android Development] inthenickoftime4:
It looks like the Droid Incredible has been rooted. I hope this helps us leakers, however I wont get my hopes up.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=699088

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:adb_in_recovery
[Droid Eris Android Development] ahjee:
Nice to see its rooted, hopefully it helps us out, i d like to try they're but I believe I'd need an update. Zip designed for the eris that has root

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[Droid Eris Android Development] jcase:
I started trying last night, while they were still figuing out how to make their's stick. I spent ~1 hour with two leaked eris and no luck.

If you have leak v1 or leak v2 please send me a pm. I am going to try and get a few people together this weekend on irc, and see if we can figure this out.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ahjee:
Unfortunately I'm on leak v3, I had no luck trying either. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I have little experience though

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[Droid Eris Android Development] Dc_striker:
I'll help out to just let me know V3 with hboot 1.49
[Droid Eris Android Development] dragon1018:
JCASE

I have a v1 leak. Sent you a PM
[Droid Eris Android Development] wshuman3:
I'm on leak3 and have had no luck getting adb running in recovery...will keep trying.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Same here, I've tried all sorts of stuff.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Jcase

I have pre-installed 2.1 if you have any ideas.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] BrownEye02:
I just joined and have been reading/following this form for a while. I cant wait till V3 is rooted, but the same goes for everyone else here. I would love to help with anything needed. I have the leaked V3 installed (sorry jcase wish I could help you their) and I do know my way around a computer just to give you guys an idea of my tech skills. But searsly anything you dev's need just hit me up, or anyone else for that matter.

LETS FINISH THIS BABY! :D
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
I purchased a new eris hoping to get into a cheap low cost droid to root and get a wi fi tether going for my iPad. But alas, I have the leaked 2.1 and cannot root.

Hoping it comes soon. If I can be of any service or help please feel free to PM me.

Thanks
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
So, in the rooting method for the Incredible, I see two things that need to happen. The first needing to happen to enable the second.

1) THE SETUP: Getting ADB to work in recovery. Quite difficult if you ask me. I've tried almost everything I can think of. Different SD cards (this could or could not make a difference, but seemed to have been a factor some people), different shut down/reboot methods and combinations, plus toying with the drivers for the phone. All with no luck. Also, it could be a possibility that this vulnerability simply could not exist for the Eris. All of that considered, if this method is somehow tweaked to work on the Eris, then we move on to step 2.

2) THE SWITCH: Tricking the phone by letting it verify an actual signed update.zip, then at the last second, replacing that actual signed update.zip with a "special" update.zip with root privileges. I have two thoughts on this point. A) If we get ADB working in recovery, we could use the recent OTA update.zip to let it verify the signature, then use the rooted 2.1 rom (S-OFF) that was leaked as the replacement. B) If we can't get the ADB in recovery working, maybe there is a way to do switch manually. Say you had 2 SD cards, one with the OTA update.zip and the other with the rooted 2.1 rom. If you could possibly switch them fast enough, or slow down the verification of the signed update.zip, then we could proceed with the already established rooting process for the Eris.

As always with my posts, I am no dev, so some of my thoughts may be totally off, so anyone with more knowledge feel free to correct me. I'm just brainstorming and putting my thoughts out there to see if anyone can use them.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Ok, I attempted this method and a couple of possibilities. The Eris_03.zip won't pass signature. The 2.1 ota.zip will so I applied 2.1 ota.zip and you can't remove sdcard while verifying. But after it verifies then aborts I was able to insert the sdcard with Eris_03.zip which is rooted ota update zip and it goes through verification but aborts on update installation still. Either I see it recognizes it as the same as what's installed which I have 2.1 pre-installed or it keeps the verify info from 2.1 ota.zip in the cache. But also a chance it keeps the dignities in cache and when it attempts to install the rooted ota zip it just still views it as the same or older than what's installed. Don't know if this helps or was tried but my results so far.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
By the way the 2.1 ota was on one sdcard and ota rooted zip on the other. Both renamed to update.zip and on root of sdcard when attemped to apply in recovery.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Ok after further exam it seems to cache the previous attempt once aborted I tried the install the other way around and when it failed to verify the ota rooted.zip I switched to the 2.1 ota.zip and I got the same result even though different files on the two sdcards. Once one fails and switch sdcard with different file you get same message even though one the second should go through verification then abort on install but still acts like its an unsigned file. Also when you attempt to pull sdcard in the middle of verifying you get an i/o error.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Another thought...

I noticed that while connected via USB to the computer, while in recovery, the computer recognizes my phone as a disk drive. However, when I try to access said disk drive, it tells me to insert a drive. I'm thinking maybe if by getting it to fully recognize it as a disk drive, we could pull the switcheroo that way instead of via ADB. I'm running Windows Vista sp3. Just throwing that out there.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Can't tell you why that is as of yet, don't have a computer to attempt that on right now. The only thing I can think of is that the device might be recognized as a valid file system. Different encryption or compression that computer doesn't recognize. If I were able to attempt I might have more info for you. It might be that the file system on the device is Linux based and the computer can't access it directly without Android sdk to help recognize it. Like I said not fermilliar with that yet and fried computer so I wishi had more info.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Also so far as of I know of there are fat16, fat32 and ntfs compression types don't remember if that matters if the computer might be different than the one that the device might be.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] nindoja:
Our SD cards are formatted as FAT32, so that is not an issue. I believe this is a problem with the way windows handles external drives.

I have noticed the same behavior when using one of my external USB drives. I can insert it, read from it, then when I eject it through windows, the device appears to stay in My Computer even though it has been properly ejected. When I try to access it I get the same message hoovnick was getting.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
I can see that with a Ian drive also maybe the same as with the phone. When you eject the usb drive from Windows I believe it unmounts it like when you unmounts the phones file system but unless you remove the usb and reindeer it the computer won't remount it because it doesn't recognized that you want to access it again after ejected through Windows. The same for Eris it might not be mounted properly because of the file system or something else. Until I get a computer next month I can't tell you. Sorry.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Ok so along the same lines of switching ROMs after verification, I was wondering if someone could try something. I would but I am at work and don't have my extra microsd card.

1. Put the 2.1 v3 leak on the sd card and name it PB00IMG.zip. Go through the HBOOT method and let it verify everything. When it asks you to press the trackball to start the update, STOP!!!

2. On another microsd card, have the 2.1 root rom named the exact same, PB00IMG.zip. Switch the sd cards, press the trackball to start the update and see if it will go through that way.

If this has already been tried, call me an idiot and disregard.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] jvward:
Quick question does anyone know the file system that android uses? Not the file system on the SD card.
[Droid Eris Android Development] quic:
i think this sounds like a good idea... i mean i don't have the spare card with me today or i would try... has anyone tried this?
[Droid Eris Android Development] wecramer:
Do you have a link to the 2.1 root rom?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Erisftw:
Go to android.grdlock.net and its under the pb00ming folders.
[Droid Eris Android Development] wecramer:
Is the other img file in that folder (the 'Official 2.1') the one we should use for the HBOOT? I cannot find my 2.1 v3 leak file.
[Droid Eris Android Development] BlazinDANDAMAN:
When found...can someone please post the 2.1v3 Leak here along with the 2.1 root...I will try the 2 SD card trick...I got the cards and the time to try it...sounds easy and like it may work...worth a shot.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Erisftw:
Root

Leak v3
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
the 2 sd card idea is exciting. I am bookmarking this thread. Hoping you geniuses figure this out.

I just want root to get wifi tether.

good luck guys and keep us posted.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Erisftw:
No, thats leak v2, see my post above.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Realm:
it doesn't do that to me (windows 7 ultimate)
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
I don't know if the sdcard pb00img trick might work. When you enter hboot and pb00img is loaded on root of sdcard. The device unpacks and loads the zip file. When you attempt to switch sdcards it would possibly have to unpack the new file on the other sdcard to install properly. If there weren't a chance of messing up device I would try, if you don't think it will, I will try tonight. Chance of bricking device I think though.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
The other thing I just thought of is the device extracts and checks the pb00img file, If it doesn't reject it because of current version of Android 2.1 i can't remember but it looks like it does it again on install. Im pretty sure this was tried before but if there's a chance it might work and not brick device I would try.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] Erisftw:
You won't brick, you will just get rejected if it doesn't work. Give it a shot. I would, but im rooted.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Austinjs0102:
Working on this right now. Ill let you know what i find when i am done with this.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aeronauticsrock:
Is anyone trying this? If not, ill give it a shot.

Edit: Hah, too slow. Let us know!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Austinjs0102:
I have tried twice now and this is what happens. Leak V3 will load, but when it comes time to swap out SD cards to the Root, it will restart and basically try to reinstall but off the the Root PB00img. I don't think this is going to work :(
[Droid Eris Android Development] Erisftw:
darn. it was worth a shot tho.
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
Well I figured I try pb00img sdcard switch and when the first pb00img loads and accepts and on update action request I switched the cards. With the card with pb00img root zip in I hit update. Once I did hboot shut down and restarted and loaded the other pb00img from scratch and get operation version error once completes. No luck here.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aeronauticsrock:
Has anyone tried getting the 2.1 OTA to install over (upgrade from) a leak? That might be a little easier than finding a new root process? Then we could use the existing 2.1 OTA root.

Just an idea.
[Droid Eris Android Development] homewmt:
This won't work

The reason we can't load the root rom is because of our hboot version, upgrading to the Ota does not change hboot.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
I see your point, but the idea is to replace our locked (S-ON) bootloader 1.49.0 with the unlocked (S-OFF) bootloader 1.49.2 which gives us root. We can already overwrite the v3 leak with the OTA, but it doesn't replace the bootloader.

Anyone bold enough to try switching the sd cards during the update, say, after you press the trackball?

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[Droid Eris Android Development] Realm:
interesting idea
[Droid Eris Android Development] fox_dye:
I don't know sounds pretty risky. That might just engineer a fancy brick. But hell if I had another phone I would give it a shot. Good luck to the brave soul that tries and you better be damn quick swapping out that SD card before the phone turns back on. You might want to tape your battery in so it doesn't drop out in the process.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Realm:
I would but I only have one sdcard
[Droid Eris Android Development] quic:
i recommended trying this a while ago but i got a response that it has been tried a million times... and bricks about 50% of the phones. Don't try doing that.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Ah, well, guess that was explored enough. Back to the drawing board I suppose...

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[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Well I did a bit of tinkering with the sdcard switch when I got home. I tried pulling the battery right after I switched the sdcards and press the trackball to start the update. As described in toasts backup method, the split second between pressing the trackball and the quick reboot, it loads the bootloader of the PB00IMG.zip that is present. I tried this multiple times with no luck. Perhaps it still thinks that the locked (1.49.0 S-ON) bootloader is still present because the sdcard with the root PB00IMG.zip isn't unpacked. Anyone follow me here? I'm assuming the answer to my next question is no, but I'm asking anyway just for kicks. Is there any way to Parse (unpack) the root PB00IMG.zip to have it ready for the phone to load?
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
No as I know of unless multiple bootloader but I don't think that's possible either.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
I also tried the battery pull method and my device shuts down. Then I have to put it back in and hold down power and volume button again unless I was doing it wrong. What's the step by step on that method.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] Resun:
So, regardless of the device not found in recovery, adbd is still running on the phone correct? So if you can get adb to push the file, will it receive it?
[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
I've tried accessing adb from terminal emulator and I get permission denied. Don't think i have access without root or unless it works different in Android sdk. Let me know if I'm wrong on this and how to access if you can from terminal. Thanks. I've been messing with terminal for a while and had no luck, my old device was rooted so I learned a lot on terminal when I had it but it doesn't work the same without root. The only things you can use are what you said and if you cd to system/bin there's some more there you can use. Is you type toobox ls it'll give you a list. Just haven't had any luck yet.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
I should say and tell me if I'm wrong, I've been trying to access the syskey command. I thought it might have don significance but I could be wrong. The first time it typed syskey it game me a command line which I want paying attention and forgot but if I type syskey ;! Now it will give me a > and haven't figured out from that point yet. Like I said can be dead end but not too fermilliarvwith terminal yet.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
dude, i have pda net and it works great for my laptop. I was amazed at the speeds it was getting.

But, my Ipad has no usb port. Thus my need for wifi tethering. The iPad is a lot more fun to play around on.

Thanks
[Droid Eris Android Development] lotus22:
Agreed, love my iPad Wifi tethered to my Eris. Works awesome!
[Droid Eris Android Development] anom69:
260 posts.. and i doubt more than 6 are about root..

if youre posting about your IPAD.. wrong forum. Droid Eris Root ONLY
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
i want to root my eris so i can use it with the ipad. thus my interest in this thread and what you guys can accomplish. My apologies for ruining this thread.

I was only responding to someone's suggestion that I try pda net.

i have interest in you guys attaining root for my phone w/ 1.49 hboot.
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Well, somehow I was able to switch out the sdcards in that very quick reboot after pressing the trackball. Result: reflash of leak v3.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] aerdely:
How or at what point in flash stage did you switch the cards. I tried a bunch of times with no luck. Also was this with the pb00img files. If you can get it to work with both rooted and leak files let me know, I would also like to see of I can get it to work so what stage did you swap the cards in. During update request or loading the file or etc.

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[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
I tried it at 2 different times. The first- during the actual update process when the phone is unpacking and installing the different parts of the ROM. The second- during the split second after you press the trackball, the screen goes black for a very, very short time. Both times resulted in reflashing the v3 leak. My assumption is that during the parsing of the zip file, it actually loads it on to the phone itself. Can anyone verify that part for me?

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