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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] i0nicx:
so i've more or less narrowed down the problem for me(and probably others) on why the slide only shows 1-2 times during the auto loop(loop.bat) or manually entering the command.(i'm using win xp pro sp3)

adb winds up running more than once and the instance of adb that connects to the slide gets shut down automatically by windows(or crashes). i've only had the loop work once and catch the phone in offline mode and hold it(i manually did the loop through cmd, currently on my 75th try to replicate).

anyone have any ideas on how to keep adb running only one instance and grab the phone in offline mode?

this is basically whats keeping me from rooting the phone
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] adambenjamin:
Did you try USB deview to see if you had multiple devices on the list. They will start out "tmobile" or "htc" or something. I had multiples, no idea how it happened.

This will let you get rid of all HTC and TMO drivers, then restart the PC and get to your CMD. You can plug the phone back in while in restore mode and wait while it properly re installs itself, once you get the "badong" sound check adb devices. It took me right to place I was before I installed USBdeview, no need to re step anything.

Hope that helps
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] i0nicx:
i tried swapping drivers around with usbdeview, no difference
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
That's exactly what i was thinking was happening wrong. o: I tried that a few times didnt work. Guess my timeing is just off, ill try more after work and see what i come up with.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
the PDAnet drivers work perfect for me, G1 drivers werent coming up with the composite so i went to get the PDAnet drivers and it works like a charm. o: but i suppose other peoples computers are different.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nomadrider123:
tried usbdeview and didnt work oh well :confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Wow, I finally rooted. All I did, after everything else I've done, I formatted the 8gb Samsung sd card that came with the phone and put it in. When I ran loop and went into recovery, adb immediately showed my phone in recovery. Ran through the rest of the steps, and I was able to get the "#" after doing "su" in shell... sweet jesus what a trip.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
Just tried it on XP Pro SP2, didn't matter if there were 2 instances of adb running. Try formatting your micso sd card like fermunky did, it worked for me.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jordanjf86:
After I hit power for the update.zip to be applied and try to push the update through ADB I cannot get past recovery saying E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E: signature verification failed

Installation aborted.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tubaking182:
had you read the entire thread you would see that this is answered a page or two back, no spoon feeding here
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jordanjf86:
Cool I will look back a few pages thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nomadrider123:
Well congrats I know it was a long hard road. I formatted my card before with no luck but yesterday once i did get it to hold and got up to #18 and it failed boy did that piss me off. Didn't you try formatting your card before?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] adambenjamin:
Anyone else have spotty multi touch

Ive been rooted since the 15th or 16th.

When I boot up, the multi touch works great but a few hours or so later, no more multi-touch.

Anyone know how to re-launch multi-touch without rebooting?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Got ROOT, supposedly...but problems with phone, now.

Well, I THOUGHT I had ROOT...and adb told me I was successful...and su always takes me to #....so what's the deal? The phone restarts randomly and installing programs for root never works. Yes, I did exactly as was stated...w/out a hitch...and still I can't get any software to install...any ideas? Any help is appreciated. :D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jordanjf86:
Got it! The problem was with the zip file, I tried the one from this link http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-mytouch-slide-3g/ and got it to work.... Not sure what was going on. Oh well I have root now!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Actually, yes. I had been using my AllData 8gb class 6 that I used with my G1. Formatted it with no luck. Got home today, watched some TV, and was about to go bowling and thought "Hey, I'll try the Samsung card that came with the phone"... About passed out when the loop showed my phone in recovery, and stayed there.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
What programs? I am pretty sure if you get to the "#" in terminal or adb shell, then you have root.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] 2Noob4U:
Ready to pull out my hair!

I can see the device when its on normally

C:\Android\tools>adb device

List of devices attached

HT05PPS07559 device

ADB definitely works. Type in "loop" then select recovery and I see offline for 1 second and it's gone!

What am I doing wrong? Beyond frustrated at this point!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] 2Noob4U:
How do I do this?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
Finally got it working, something that really helped me was this from another post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=703429

when i actually redid each update first time it worked like a charm. I had it working the first time i did it but then i rebooted with out doing the apply update step soo i had to start all over. :3
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mitchgdodge:
for Mac?

So is there going to be a tutorial update for how to ROOT this on a Mac? I tried my hardest to putt everyones comments together but it was just too much, or the fact I am on Mars :cool: I just want to know if anyone could help me out with a reference or any help.

P.S. does anyone not like their phone, and if so would you go HD2 instead?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Well, for instance...Titanium Backup... along with BusyBox...both say I have no root access...even though I checked the popup box. The phone actually restarted randomly, also. Why would it do THAT!? In terminal, it says I have root...but I can't access memory by typing "free". Won't let me even do that! (CONFUSED)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sk8rbebop:
I posted one here.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] vdub804:
aren't you glad I sent you that pm
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Almost, I had to use a different SD card :P, but yes, thank you.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Ok, so I rooted my Slide without running into any issues, but out of curiosity I tried to boot back into recovery mode. I no longer have Clockwork recovery.

Root still works (as evidenced by typing "su" into Terminal Emulator, at least,) shouldn't I still have a custom Recovery? If I want to install Cyanogen's Recovery or Clockwork Recovery, can I just push it from adb? How exactly do I go about that?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
here's a little bit of help... as long as you didnt delete the update.zip of clockwork recovery off your sd card after rooting, you should still be able to apply update.zip and get clockwork to come up
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Any reason why this would have happened, though? I'm just hoping I didn't mess something up.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
lol dont worry, you can always redownload update.zip to your sd card.. you're still rooted, so thats not a worry.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Hmm, ok. When I went into recovery it said "Can't open /cache/recovery/command" and then dumped me into the stock recovery.

When I try to run update.zip, it says "E:failed to verify whole-file signature E: signature verification failed

Installed aborted"
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
I went through the rooting process again to see if that fixed it. Is there any way to boot into recovery mode without going through fastboot first? Like holding Home+Power on the G1.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
you need to repush the ota.zip > update.zip and do that step i believe
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] looneylu:
does this unlock nandroid as well??? full read/write access????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
nand is still locked at this point i believe... as soon as we get the spl sticky then we should be onto nand
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Okay, no, going through the rooting process didn't fix it. I guess I should be happy I still have root.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
verify that the update.zip for clockwork is still on your sd card... thats a biggie right there. I'm thinking that you've got the wrong update.zip
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
I have an update.zip file on my sd card. If I take the update.zip from the .zip package eugene gave us in the beginning of the thread, do I need to use the "update.zip" file or use the "ota.zip" file and rename it to update.zip?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Or could I just try, like, Cyanogen's recovery?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
heh some reason i doubt that would work right...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Lol, ok, so which file from the package eugene gave us should I try flashing as update.zip, then?

update.zip OR

ota.zip OR

slideroot.zip

I'm assuming update.zip, but I've tried that and I still can't get Clockwork to load besides the first time when I was rooting.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
you need to have downgraded to the engineering rom at one point for that to work.. have you? if not then the only way to get back into clockwork is the same way you did it the first time with the adb loop steps and all that
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Ohhh, ok. I just followed the steps in the beginning of the thread. So this is normal, then? Just following the steps posted here won't get me Clockwork for good?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Sorry I think I misunderstood what you were trying to do.. Have you rooted the phone at all?

Following the steps listed in the 1st page here will get you into clockwork. But you have to follow all the steps, meaning the adb loop, finding phone in recovery, pushing the files to the phone, then pushing update.zip to sd after selecting update.zip on the phone.

If you flash the ENG rom its much simpler to get into clockwork. On the eng rom all you have to basically do it hit update.zip from recovery, which is what I thought you were trying to do now.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Yup, I've done all the steps in the beginning of the thread twice with no errors, and I have root access on my phone. My only problem at this point is that I can't get back into Clockwork recovery to flash any other stuff. When I try it, I go through fastboot (since I don't know if I can't boot straight to recovery like on my old G1. Can I? How?) but when I try to go into recovery from there it gives me the "can't open cache/recovery/command" error and dumps me into stock recovery. Trying to flash the Clockwork update.zip through the stock recovery results in a signature failure of some kind. The exact output is further up in the thread.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
have you tried re-downloading the files and putting them in your tools folder again? maybe something got corrupted?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
I can try that, but like I said, Clockwork works fine while I'm in the process of rooting it, so it seems strange that this would happen. At work now, so it'll have to wait until I get home and get to my computer to try this.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Long story short, any ROM thread right now uses an update.zip file, to load the Clockwork recovery.

Long answer: There is no thread yet to permanently flash any other recovery to your phone. That is why every ROM thread has at least two files: 1 is an update.zip file, which the stock recovery can flash to then load the Clockwork recovery; the next file is any named .zip file since the Clockwork now gives you the option of picking any zip file.

You should be able to use ANY update.zip posted here so far, as they all do the same thing: load Clockwork recovery temporarily. I still have the update.zip from this thread, and it loads clockwork just fine after hitting update.zip from the stock recovery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
I'm wondering about the SD card, when i got it theres was alot of files and stuff from the whole mytouchslide. I'm rooted so i know i need to keep the update.zip for the clockwork recovery but can i just delete everything else in there? If i want to reformat the SD then i'm wanting to make sure what "should" be pull off of it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Nothing is really "needed" there, unless you have some other apps that save stuff to it. Right now, I have nothing on mine except the Clockwork update.zip... Of course, all my media is about to go back on.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
and having flashed the ENG build**
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Ah, ok, so this is what's expected. So for now, to flash any update.zip what is the exact process? Push the Clockwork update.zip, then select "Apply .zip" from the stock recovery, push Clockwork update.zip when it starts verifying? That'll get you into Clockwork so you can flash any .zip, correct?

Thanks for clearing this up. I didn't read through the entire thread, but I hadn't seen anyone asking about this. Guess I'm just a n00b!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Mine won't do this, it dumps the error at me.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
How do I flash the ENG build?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
maybe you should check out the slide bible to figure it out
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
Lol, thanks, I will.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
you think the downgrade to eng will be necessary to flash what ever recovery we end up getting
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
yeah, that'll be all we gotta do.. downgrades allow us to flash custom roms, and radio updates, and will be good enough to flash spls and recoverys
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
Thanks. on the g1 i never kept anything on the sd after i was flashing a new rom but i didnt want to delete something that may be like a system file that could mess my phone up. :3
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Most seem to be missing that as a minimum, you should be rooting, and then flashing the eng build. After that, just keep your update.zip file from the eng build thread as it will be needed for all rom flashing until a permanent replacement recovery comes along.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] InsanePenguin:
This was what I was trying to find out.

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Note that installing the eng rom will wipe your phone. And then, if you go to install any of the other roms, you will have to wipe at least once more.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mistajayz:
i know im a newb, but i need help. when i run loop it says ' adb ' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or file. can someone tell me what im doing wrong please.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
easy one! install android sdk
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
or if you have sdk already then..

if using windows open up command

cd/

cd (name of sdk folder)/tools/

adb (insert command)

atleast this is what i've done and gets me to what i need to do
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mistajayz:
ok so fixed that problem. now when i run loop and select recovery it wont show offline device and ive tried about 20 times already, but my computer makes the sound of a connected device when i unplug my phone tho.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
turn your phone on, type in "adb devices" if your device doesnt show up you are probly gonna have to install the drivers, i used the PDAnet drivers and it worked. install it and your drivers should come with it.

once your drivers are rdy start the loop while thats going select recovery and it should do about 3 dadoops on the computer then it should start to show the offline, after that just unplug it and replug it, do adb devices again, if its not showing recovery then restart the process.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] quis5550:
please help

im stuck at the cd part please write detailed instructions please
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
R U serious? Only 3 posts up from yours.

[B]MOD[/B] please delete this post, thank you
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jglappa:
Cannot root the slide

So I have been trying everything to get this to work. Going on 11 hours now. Still looking for a resolution. My problem is this: When I go into Recovery Mode, Step 6, it shows an offline device for 1 line and then goes blank with devices. Any help getting this to work would be much appreciated. I have tried pda net drivers, htc drivers, and the sdk drivers in every possible combination and nothing seems to work its not the drivers. Thats about all I know. Thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
Please try formatting your micro sd card then go through the steps again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] motorjonny:
after you deleted driver and installed pda net drivers, did you reboot your computer?? I made the mistake of not rebooting and wasted hours and nobody thought to point out that rebooting is necessary to reset to the new driver... this is what worked for me.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
also try changing out your sd card oh and make sure you have debugging on
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mylostlonelysoul:
it is? I never restarted mine and my drivers worked perfectly. o:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jglappa:
cant root

no i havent tried to format the sd card, didnt know that made a difference. ill try that now thanks for the suggestion
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
it took me restarting my comp , and also for good measure i changed cards.. i just recently lost ALL my **** last night on my comp, so a fresh install is required... which means ill have to redo my drivers lol.. wish me luck :P
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] adambenjamin:
When you guys use USBdeview to unistall the HTC drives and T-mobile drives, you are also removing all those pesky "usb mass storage device" drives as well right?? Let me know if you do that and restart the computer and it still doesnt work. I know that the msd's aren't in the tutorials, and it was one of the last steps I did before finally catching the loop. Also used the battery pull method while holding volume down to get to recovery quicker.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] livecoslove:
did you successfully root your slide? i m a mac user too. i just installed the SDK, but haven't rooted mine yet. becoz of considering may replace the phone at the end of the tryout period.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jglappa:
cant root

so i tried formatting the sd card, this didnt really do much of anything i thought i had it offline but then it went away after 4 or 5 offline status lines
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] whgarner:
cant get to offline

will not show offline or that phone is connected in any way except as tmobile usb storage device. tried both htc and pdanet drivers. will reboot normally into phone will then show device and serial number. usb debugging enabled, "adb devices" which then show the phone. tried a couple dozen times to get offline no success. "note as above" will show offline for one or two loops, but won't show any devices after into recovery.

bill g.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nomadrider123:
welcome to my world I have tied it all over and over. only thing I could add would be try a different computer
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] gbear1023:
I got root

I have been trying for 2-1/2 days and finnally struck gold

got really frustrated and unistalled it all.then reinstalled it all following the tutorial didnt have pda net installed just htc sync. and the proper drivers.got it to recognize offline then it all worked just read it all twice before i entered any commands.Props to all the devs who put there heart and soul into this.:D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] neilatlanta:
stuck on step 12-13

it finds and reads the info and then error

failed to verify whole-file signature

Please help
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Cmon guys, there is another thread labeled "getting past adb" that has a lot of things to try, and it is not what this thread is for.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rhonal89:
sdk

man i cant get the android sdk working on windows 7.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jglappa:
cant root

like i said uninstalling everything does nothing can not root the slide. it goes away from offline device in about 5 lines. I tried the other methods of getting around this none of them works. stop sending people there.. is this a fake root?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Try another SD card?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] n1ghtl1fe:
thank you :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Digital1Groupllc:
I cant get root access

i was able to go into clockwork and push both files and get slideroot to install and i also got superuser to install right but i still dont have root access. pls help.

fron cmd prompt i adb shell and su and get su: permission denied

HiFiDvnt@gmail.com pls help

1 day after this was posted with the help of all of you reading this and xda i have my answer, i had not "mounted system" in partitions menu from clockwork recovery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] montiz333:
Stuck!! PLEASE HELP

I've been trying this root method for 2 days straight i cant seem to make into clock recovery after pressing update.zip on the phone and then entering the adb push command directly upon seeing the the bar (step 12/13) it just starts to fill then cancels about 1/4 of the way through EVERYTIME!!!!! :mad: can some PLEASE HELP ME
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
@Digital did you mount /system in clockwork before using slideroot.zip as the update file? I didn't the first time I tried and didn't get root but redid the process and after mounting /system then updating with slideroot.zip everything worked fine.

@montiz333 try waiting a little longer to push update.zip I got the signature error a few times but after waiting for the green bar to get about 1/4 throug then pushing update.zip I got into clockwork
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] cswroe:
I get the same error, did it twice. Now when I install Superuser.apk I receive the file all ready exists error and still permission denied.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] adambenjamin:
After you run your command prompt, you have to look to your phone on the home screen and a notification should pop up asking you if you want to give permission. Permission is manually given through the my touch interface. That took me a while to figure out.