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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] oxi83:
And just when I was beginning to lose hope, everything worked. :D :D :D

I was using my program with the "stop after one 'offline'" setting. I'll upload a copy so that others can use it. It's a C#.NET program so you'll need windows and the .NET framework. It should be placed in the SDK tools folder. When your phone is on or starting, click "Run" and it'll take you through a full cycle telling you if it's successful or not (except if you tell it to stop after one "offline", then you should run adb devices to check if it worked or not). If it doesn't work, restart the phone and click Run again once it's far enough through the startup. It's by no means magic and if your phone is like mine, expect to do it many many times for it to work. However it does make it simpler since you only need to press 3 buttons every time you cycle.

"Adaptive timing" makes the program start the loop a second and a half before it detected offline mode last time. I'm not sure if that's any good, but others said that it works better when you loop for as little as possible.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Jermz212:
When you get to $ prompt, before typing SU open up the program Superuser on your phone (double click icon) then you'll get a pop-up asking to grant permission, then click yes....then enter SU and it should work :-)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dragon4000:
Glad to see it helped out :D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
Thanks guys, lol, that helped me too. The should put that in the tutorial on the front page (to look at the phone for permission).
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
Step 19 should be reworded

Under step 19: This quote: "Superuser should pop-up asking if you give permission, do so.", should read "Superuser should pop-up on your phone screen asking if you give permission, do so.".

Edit: Oh, and rooted. My first. Thanks devs.

Edit: Guide has been updated, this guide is no longer applicable, unless you want to do it the hard way. :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] android007:
I just rooted my myTouch 3G Slide via Mac&Terminal, thank you!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
So does the phone remain exactly the same with this other than root access?? Like it will still be running the stock tmo ROM?? Also does it get wiped or no?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zippa71385:
the loop you made will loop that im offline repeatedly correct?

what I see is:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HighRidas:
still stock tmo rom until sum1 releases there own and no it doesnt wipe anythyng fone will b exactly the same just with root
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
See that looks correct. Mine will show an offline device, then go back to an empty list. I imagine it should keep showing it in the loop, otherwise you wont be able to adb push to it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] riles22:
Right there with you guys fermunkey & zippa
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Wish I was home, thinking about installing adb on my work computer.. What sucks is by the time i get home this will be about 30 pages ughh. Maybe some vids or pics will be up by then, Im a little rusty with adb and it seems most of you guys are having trouble as it is.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Code3VW:
The ambiguities in the OP is confusing the masses...

Step 1 says to place the Slide Root unzipped folder in the SDK directory (on my computer it is C:\Android)

Then Step 2 says to CD to SDK\Tools (which is C:\Android\Tools) but the loop file ISN'T IN TOOLS, it is in the folder above, C:\Android.

If I cd to C:\Android then loop will run...

Once I go to Recovery and hit power, I get the black screen with the phone and orange ! with a triangle around it. Following the people above, I hit power and volume up, and in the bottom it says in yellow "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" and then in blue up top I can select Reboot system now, apply sdcard:update zip, wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition.

I see no offline devices. If I reboot the phone and do adb device in the regular android system then I have a device under adb device...

What am I doing wrong?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zippa71385:
so im not crazy... lol

So it seems to stay connected longer and longer It filled the screen before it disconnected again :(... and yeah it makes total sense that it would loop, but I had to ask, I was thinking from what he said when you plug it back in itll read... so as long as it saw you off line once unplug and insert again and itll work... but thats me assuming again... lol
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zippa71385:
also does anyone else hear like a negitive tripple beep before they go into recovery? (talking windows os BTW) itll still read off line for a spell, but then disconects
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
# Eugene_373

I got Eng Release To Flash to the Slide.... Can we Say Full Root Now? http://twitpic.com/1x22pw 1 minute ago via Twitpic

* Delete

# BH_MAN / Eugene373 Eugene_373

I got Eng Release To Flash to the Slide.... Can we Say Full Root Now? http://twitpic.com/1x22kk
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] serialtoon:
I too see no offline devices. Too bad, i wanted to wipe this bloatware off the phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Z51:
can someone make an idiots guide to rooting this phone?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zippa71385:
does this help

First put loop into the sdk tools folder...

Second... what your looking for after you run loop just before you enter recovery is that your loop is showing your device offline repeatedly
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
thar she blows ^^

edit: by the way, you gotta extract that folder from the zip to somewhere, then copy the files in it to your tools folder.. simple enoug
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
3 negative beeps means your driver is wonky. Use USBDeview to remove all android drivers and reinstall them.

Now, I see whats happening with me. As soon as I start loop, I tell bootloader to go into recovery. In device manager on Windows, it will then connect a Android ADB Device (during this time, an offline device is shown). Then it quickly disconnects, and reconnects as a Generic Volume under Storage Volumes. I cannot get it to stay as an ADB device.

Luckily, this is my work computer, and I have had issues before with ADB here. I am gonna go home and try it from there after work.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Holy ****, why does your sig have a HUGE tmobile logo? It's 5547 x 1276, you putz!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] slobatch:
BAHAHAHA! I had the same exact question.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sutiban:
adblock plus for the win! ;-)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tubaking182:
i will be making a n00b walkthrough if anyone wants it, i will attach it as a file here so as not to have a dozen threads stating how to root your phone. if anyone needs an ubuntu walkthrough i may un-root to re-root in ubuntu a little later tonight or tomorrow so we can get you guys going too. this process only took me 10 minutes(about 5 minutes faster than rooting the G1) and i got it on my first try even though the power went out here while i was working and i had no idea what to do next.

just a few questions:

how do i mount my /system as read write in adb or terminal so i can start deleting bloatware?

in the G1 it was "adb shell su mount -o rw,-t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system" but i get that the device or resource is busy, i'm no noob when it comes to linux/unix/android/hacking phones so please help me out and i can test which apps can be safely removed without losing too much stability
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sultan.of.swing:
If I remeber correctly I mentioned something about making sure you check the phone to accept the superuser access a few pages back. Guess my post was not read.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
There's also a post I made about 10 pages back or so about how to get the phone to show up in recovery/offline easier without doing anything to your sd card. Many posts get ignored and even the ones that aren't are soon buried by the same questions that have been asked dozens of times. Don't feel bad about it sultan, it just happens. Hopefully if the post is good enough the first post will be updated again with the new tips.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
I vote for this to be moved to the front of the thread, kudos! Or I mean that one post about 10 pages back should be moved to the front.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] here.david:
THANK YOU - I now have root after 9 days...

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! yes in caps :)...after 9 days and many 100's of trying everything:eek:...on XPPRO64, UBUNTU 9.10 & 10.04 and Win7....this worked on my netbook (win7)....NO ISSUES, NO SD CARD ISSUES, just click and go....previously only got to offline mode, tried 10 different SDCARDS from 1gb to 8gb...had the stock one in "samsung" when I tried this autoroot.exe file suggestion and wish it would be moved to the front....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stopjockingme@gmail.com:
Hey guys i NEED HELP.

i'm at Steps 12 and 13.

once I hit the power button to apply the update.zip and push enter once I see the GREEN BAR at the bottom. it says

E: Failed to verify whole-file signature
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Phantisy:
Keep trying. Took me like 10-15 times to get it to work
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stopjockingme@gmail.com:
UPDATE!

^^As I stated my issues earlier, if you failed at hitting enter at the correct moment the GREEN bar shows up, repeat STEPS 9-13 NOT 12 and 13.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Phantisy:
There is no need to push the files to the SD card over and over again once you have them on there. They are untouched by android. Repeating just steps 12 and 13 are all you have to do. Its a timing thing and you just have to get it at the right moment.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
You saw my post huh? Glad you liked it:P

@Phantisy I actually had to repush ota.zip to get it to work. There is a massive dependence on timing but sometimes you do need to redo ota.zip to get it to work.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Phantisy:
That's weird but hey if it worked then good :) I had to push the update.zip like 15 times before it worked for me. Did not have to do anything else.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
I also noticed on my phone that if i let the green bar get about 1/4 of the way over, maybe just 10%, but a little bit THEN push update.zip it worked whereas pushing as soon as i saw the bar gave the signature error. This may help someone so good luck to everyone who's still trying to root.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] drewtang:
Please help!!!!

I am stuck at step 9, when I enter in the command, i get an error message saying "cannot stat './ota.zip' No such file or directory. What to do?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stopjockingme@gmail.com:
^mac or windows?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Make sure ota.zip is in the "tools" folder.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Tools comes with the sdk ota.zip is in the package on the first post
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] here.david:
How I got rooted

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\>cd \android\tools

C:\android\tools>autoroot

C:\android\tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

HTxxxxxxxxxx offline

C:\android\tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

HTxxxxxxxxxx recovery

C:\android\tools>adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip

853 KB/s (3679537 bytes in 4.211s)

C:\android\tools>adb push slideroot.zip /sdcard

907 KB/s (833528 bytes in 0.896s)

C:\android\tools>adb push update.zip /sdcard

1519 KB/s (828298 bytes in 0.532s)

C:\android\tools>

now how do I remove apk's...? I keep getting NOT ALLOWED...tried "adb" and SU...any suggestions....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
You can't remove stock apps, not easilly anyway. For others use a root file explorer.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
OP Updated... Cleaned Up the Direction and Cut down the Steps needed...

Only 1 File is needed & Su / SH / Superuser.apk is now all Combo Install :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mdajunkie:
if only i had this a few weeks ago lol jk, but thanks for your hard work man.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Lecherous:
Awesome Guide, although it's missing Step 14 and 15, which kind of appear in the video.

(using the Cr recovery or whatever)

Step 14: Mount sdcard

Step 15: Apply zip (slideroot.zip)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
I need to take that Video Off... I Change the Guide, and is now the Correct guide, but I'm sure the changes was easily over looked due to there is no more slide me Root .zip

The updated version is just called root.. and contains only 3 file's need for the whole process & there is no step 14 nor 15!

I'l also be updating the Update.zip as well in a few, as the recovery no Contains a method for Partitioning the SDcard for a2sd & swap.

~Eugene
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Latest Root.zip is now Live, with fstab support and a2sd how-to as well..

Enjoy!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] arpheztwig:
so, I'm now joining the many people who tried for hours and finally got it to work.

I share my final step in the hopes it helps someone out there

I noticed that during all the rebooting and such that windows (7) kept recognizing my phone as different devices. when it was booted up normal, it was an ADB device and a mass storage device, but I could install it as 3 different things with the same driver so I played around with that for a while... but when I rebooted into fastboot, or the bootloader, whatever it was called, it recognized it as something else, and when it was rebooting into recovery, it was yet another device.

so the last thing I remember doing before phantisy's script worked is connecting the phone in each of it's different states, and going into device manager and updating the drivers to the same driver and the same device. I can't remember if I used the SDK driver or the pdanet driver. I'm fairly sure I had it installed as an ADB composite device, but I'm not at my computer at the moment.

good luck with all the new scripts that these awesome guys are coming up with, I hope they find one that works for everybody.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
about a2sd how-to

Eugene, if I already rooted my slide the older way, can I still follow the "newer" directions to get a2sd, from the first page of this thread, that you just edited? I know bad sentence structure, hope you know what I'm asking. Yoda speak, yay!

Doug
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Yes, it's Fine to do :)

enjoy,

Eugene
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
OK I have to ask, does anyone else think that having Swap is 100% useless when we have 256mb of accessible RAM?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Absolutely. There is zero point for using swap on a device like this.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Was just added to see if it worked Correct. I have already said that a Few Time..

Btw, I have ran into many occasions that the Rom has dipped into the Swap, not much.. Only around 10MB though, but still point being! But I also should point out this is on a Fully stock Rom with all the Bloatware.

So Zero point? No quite, or at least until it is more Optimized anyways.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
Man it took forever for me to get it to show up (like 20 minutes, but it felt like forever). When it did I yelled out YES! Definitely woke up my dog and neighbor. Thank you so much for this! Now to figure out which ROM to flash :D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] skullkandy:
Thank you eugene, once again you rock.

Would anyone in the know be able to post a short little tutorial for how to do this for someone who already has root. I imagine that most of the steps can be skipped if we already have root but want to get the new goodies with this one. Unfortunatly I don't know enough of what I'm doing to know what can be cut out and what can't.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Well, we had a Video, but I cut down the Process so much it didn't match up :eek:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] skullkandy:
the root video really helped me out in my original root. I'm currently rooted the old way and running slidemeroot2 (because it's had not a single problem so I haven't updated to 5r yet although I should)

My guess is that I can just replace the current update.zip on my sd card with the new clockwork you modified. reboot into recovery then apply update.zip from sd card and I'm good.

following that I just go by these instructions:

"How-to Use:

Once You load the Recovery via update.zip, Unplug & Plug the USB to make sure the Device is Seen..

- Open Command Prompt from Computer

- Adb shell

- sdparted

- Next Follow the Command, y = Y to confirm"

and I'm done. it seems like I can skip the whole rest of the tutorial since I'm already rooted.

.....or maybe I do need to start at the beginning and do all the step including the loop, adb push update.zip /sdcard, and all that.

But again that's with my very limited knowledge of what the heck I'm doing. :)

BTW, I just wanted to say that it's very cool of you to always be posting help and support in so many diffferent threads to help us fools. I've noticed that almost every question anyone has you answer very quickly and aren't a jerk about it even though we all probably sound like whining idiots who don't have a clue.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] vinaychopra:
Is the process of getting into recovery the same as before ... running loop and then hitting recovery.

It worked before but now it is killing me.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] skullkandy:
this is what I'm wondering as well. I'm already rooted and running one of eugenes roms and I'm wondering If I just replace the current update.zip with the new one or if we have to go through all the steps of the loop and push to install the new clockword recovery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
I just replaced the update.zip and started in recovery, launched update.zip and all seemed fine. I already had root though and I have my sd card full so I can't try a2sd or sdparted yet but it seemed to run fine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] lando123:
Took a lot of tries, but finally got it to work. I started loop running before turning the phone on. When i did that, it immediately went into the offline status and stayed, instead of blinking once and scrolling off.

ok WTF. Trying to toss a rom on here and recovery keeps failing?? All i did was restart my phone, check to see that superuser is indeed installed, copied the rom to my sdcard, and went into recovery. Recovery comes up as the stock htc/android recovery, i hit install update.zip, it fails out.

edit2:

So, if i want to change roms, i have to go through the entire run loop and cross fingers then do the update.zip tango on the computer and phone every time?????

Am i missing something here?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
If you're running stock you still need to mess with the push update.zip thing. The update.zip only works by default with the engineering ROM already flashed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] josenlared:
Thank u for your work. I rooted the Slide easily following your steps. But when I run update.zip to get Clockwork I get errors. Can you please tell me where I can find a solution to this?

I have reformated the SD card several times. Also tried rooting again with your most recent updates without success. Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ewokmc:
Last steps in rooting mytouch slide...

Well, after 2 hours of following all the steps in rooting my Mtouch Slide, in the very last segment, where you select "choose zip from sd card", then you select slideroot.zip, except one problem, that option does not exist for me, I thought that maybe because I am using another than the original sd card? Please help... Gingko.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
@josenlared what are the exact errors you get?

@ewok you need to choose "select update.zip from sd card" then "choose zip from sd card". Just look through clockwork you'll see it. Also make sure you mount system in clockwork if you're rooting for the first time.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] twelvepack:
Trouble Rooting Mytouch 3G Slide

I am on my 3rd Android phone now. My G1 & my Cliq I never did modify in any way so this is my first time trying to do things with one. I have all the software successfully installed on my computer & it recognizes my phone as adb device. I have been trying to do the rooting process using step-by-step instructions & even the YouTube video. I have been able to do everything except I have not been successful on the step that goes to Clockwork Recovery...

I click to run update.zip, then when the bar appears under the text I enter the command adb push update.zip /sdcard from my computer. I have even tried the command at many different times & just have not been successful at all in getting to Clockwork Recovery. Is there something I could be missing or doing wrong or does anybody have any suggestions? I'm new & learning all I can. It drives me nuts that it seems like everything else is going fine with me that everyone else has problems with when rooting their phones & nobody has the problem I am. I have read on like 5 or 6 different forums of rooting the slide. So please help me
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] josenlared:
Thank you for your help.

After opening system recovery menu, under the selectable menu I get this message:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

Then, after selecting Apply sdcard:update.zip:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
microsd cards after root

After root, can I switch to another microsd card? Root is on the phone, not on the card right?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] AggieChris:
I've made it to clockwork twice

Hi all,

I've made into the clockwork recovery twice, but each time once I reboot, I don't have root privileges and superuser is not installed.

Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm sorry if this is silly, but I've spent 3 hours reading and searching to no avail.

How can I ensure that root sticks?

Thanks,
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bert269:
Need help with the Android 1.0 driver request....

I got exactly the same problem ...... How do I get past that?

Besides having the latest SDK with ADB installed, and the latest HTC Sync software (+ drivers) - what do one do about the Android 1.0 drivers that is required when the phone is "recovery mode" ????

Thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
reinstall the driver once in recovery mode?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] josenlared:
PDA Net drivers worked for me
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Lakers3408:
Well not everyone is as lucky as you... I also used the PdaNet program to install the drivers BUT when booting the phone with Volume Down and Power, the "Found New Hardware" wizard pops up asking to install "Android 1.0" .. "Android ADB Interface"

This also has me stuck :mad: