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[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
It would be good if people who needed help would meet up on IRC.

I suggest:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria

If anyone who can help and can spend some time there, I'd really appreciate it if you'd go there and lend a hand. I have some other stuff to do once in a while.

This isn't an easy process, and we have a lot of first time Android users on AT&T here. Let's try to work this out in IRC so we don't keep adding page after page and thread after thread of help requests covering the same old stuff.

If someone who could consistently get into clockwork without flashing recovery would champion this, then please - go for it.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Yoshiofthewire:
I'll keep a window open there.
[HTC Aria Android Development] cranked:
After two days of struggling, I am finally rooted, have 3rd party apps, and replaced stock recovery with clockwork...this is what worked for me. This ONLY replaces steps 3-5 above (use attn1's original post for 1-2, 12+, and the above 6-9 once you complete the below)...

System: Win7, 64bit

SD Card Setup (Use the 2GB Card that came with the Aria):

3a. Use a card reader, and do a quick format on the card to FAT32, allocation size 4096

3b. Copy one of attn1's ROMs (liberated or rooted Aria stock) to the SD card

3c. Put the SD card back in the phone and power it up into the HTC ROM/Android​

Now for the Windows instructions:

4. follow this to ensure you have the correct driver installed (note: if you see android device, just update it to this driver): http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:windows_hboot_driver_install

5. Connect to USB, and choose the DISK DRIVE option on the phone, and click done on the phone

Pick up with step 6 above...​

Hopefully this helps those that are stuck, if not, drop in here and someone will help you: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria

Finally, if this still doesn't work, turn your 2GB SD card into a Goldcard after step 3a and continue to step 3b when you are done.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tomlogan1:
I've tried every method posted here to root my device with no success. I have noticed that when I use an adb command such as reboot recovery, the HTC Sync icon change from green to grey. The only way then to get contact with the Aria is to reboot both the phone and the pc. I've just come over from Windows Mobile so I'm sure there are things I am doing wrong, but I just can't get the PC to see the Aria once I've gotten into recovery. Any suggestions appreciated, and thank you for this tweak. Oh, yeah, I do have an 8GB Class 4 card as well as a 16GB Sandisk, too. No help
[HTC Aria Android Development] mjgreenjr:
Oh man, I thought this last one with the driver install from unrevoked was going to do it but still nothing. I get the new driver installed while in boot usb but as soon as it gets to the red triangle again the device goes away still. I see it offline for a few seconds while the htc screen is still going but then nada.

Once its in the recovery screen I don't have the new device that got installed from the new driver install. Is it supposed to be in my pc's device list?
[HTC Aria Android Development] panda703:
I was able to do mine with the stock 2GB card that came with the phone, also a method i did personally was

1. run the loop

2. reboot the phone into recovery from DroidExplorer

3. if the phone doesnt get picked up in a recovery state by the Loop then I just held up volume + power, select reboot the phone and tried again
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
Alternative Method

Well, I don't know if this will help anyone. I rooted both my Aria and my sister's, and both times I was only able to get into recovery mode while I was either installing or uninstall HTC Sync. So for those of you who can't get the Aria to show up as recovery mode under "adb devices," you might try performing the procedure while installing or uninstalling HTC Sync. I don't know if it will work for other people, but it worked for me.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
To install Unrevoked's recovery program, your phone needs to be already rooted. It's easier if you go with the rom flash method as opposed to manually performing the rooting, since you might miss some steps. I missed a step and my phone became similar to the situation that you're describing.

It's possible that you didn't fully root your phone. Are you able to get a root prompt? I assume you can get a shell to your phone because it sounds like it. When you turn on the phone normally, does your computer detect it when you run "adb devices"? If so, can you run "adb shell"? If you can get into the shell by executing "adb shell", type "su". If it says permission denied, then you haven't rooted the phone.

Note that to flash the rom, you need to connect your phone to the computer and use Windows Explorer (or Finder, Nautilus, etc.) to transfer the rom onto the sdcard first. You can also do it later, but I find it easier to do this outside of recovery.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
I had the same situation as you. I don't know if you missed this step, but for me, I missed a step. Before installing update.zip and superuser.apk, I was supposed to mount /system , but I forgot. I could see the Aria listed on my XP when I do "adb devices" , and I could also connect. But I couldn't get into recovery mode or into a root shell.

The way I solved this was really surprising. I thought maybe HTC Sync would solve the problem so I installed it, but it didn't do anything. So I uninstalled HTC Sync. While it was uninstalling, I was trying to do the "Recovery + plug in USB" thing again, and this time, it restarted into recovery. And I got into Clockwork from there.

I would suggest you flash your rom instead of doing it manually, since flashing the rom is guaranteed to work while rooting it manually, you might mess up, not to mention it saves some time. The aria_shipped_rooted rom is pretty much stock if you want to keep all the AT&T customizations. I personally flashed the liberated_aria rom.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tomlogan1:
DroidExplorer got past the missing device, but after I perform the first Apply sdcard:update zip it falis as suggested, but when I attempt the first push, the instructions say to push the power button on the phone. When I do this, the phone boots normally, so I never get into clockwork. WTF?
[HTC Aria Android Development] zargeus:
Where it says "push the power button" make sure you are over the apply update.zip again and not reboot the phone.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dochood:
I'm not having any luck on this at all.

In Win7x64, I've installed the drivers, but the phone won't show up when I do "adb devices".

In Ubuntu 10.04x64, I get:

even when I do "sudo ./adb devices"
[HTC Aria Android Development] Shad0wguy:
I'm having difficulty getting this done. I am at the point where I push ota.zip as update.zip. It pushes successfully but when I run apply update.zip on the phone it says "E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip (status 0)

I formatted my sd card but still get the error. Do I need to try a different card, or possibly make this one into a goldcard?

EDIT: scratch that, finally got it to go through.

I find that it seems to work when pushing update.zip to hit enter once it gets to "Verifying." That is what worked for me.
[HTC Aria Android Development] cranked:
Highly recommend you go to:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria

There are a lot of people there that have been successful, we can hopefully help out.
[HTC Aria Android Development] jznomoney:
I was using ubuntu 32bit I remember when I ran ./adb the first time it installed a service. Not sure if its only 32bit compatible. Could just use 32bit live cd.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dochood:
For those on the IRC, thanks for the help, especially attn1.

I'm still not having luck in Linux. May try Windows again now that I have a Gold Card.
[HTC Aria Android Development] :
step 15 & 16 are giving me a hard time. :( please help im not sure what i should see or do or whats supposed to be happening. please help the rest seems easy. thanks ^_^
[HTC Aria Android Development] ionsof:
help! tried everything!

I got in the loop to start in the command prompt, and it read my device for 1 time. Ater I enter CTRL-C and enter adb devices, it does not read my phone nor does any adb commands. Any response would be appreciated so much! Thanks Forrest.
[HTC Aria Android Development] ionsof:
ARIA

I am there!! my son and I spent hours on it. We now have the Liberty rom and root.

Have also set up Gizmo5, Google Voice, and Sipdroid and now have Voip on the Aria. Have accomplished sending and receiving receiving calls. Call quality is good. Can hear callers and they can hear me. wow this is great.

You have gotta love this little phone.

can not wait for the next rom release.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dahui9:
ok I keep getting when I go into my loop now

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device offline

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device not found

so it sees it for a second and then drops it anyone else have this problem?
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
This is the part of the instruction that you are having problem with?

15. adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip and press the power button to execute.

16. If that pushes without error, then enter adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip but do NOT press enter.

17. In recovery, again scroll down with power down to select sdcard:update.zip but do not execute yet.

18. Press the power button and then IMMEDIATELY AFTER press enter on the keyboard. If timed right, Clockwork recovery should load. If not, start back at step push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip and repeat from there until clockwork loads.

After step 15, you should see some number of kb copied. Step 18 should not say IMMEDIATELY AFTER. You should press enter on the keyboard only after your Aria says verifying... What we are doing is to make the Aria correctly verify the ota.zip, while we replace ota.zip with update.zip . This is to bypass the signature verification. If done unsuccessfully, your Aria will say verification failed. Most likely, you hit the power button too soon. Make sure to hit it only after seeing Verifying... on your Aria screen.
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
that error is normal. It's just looking for valid update.zip file to process, and it's not finding one and that's okay.
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
POST #2 updated. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6906288&postcount=2
[HTC Aria Android Development] rick4222:
Root Really?!?

What a pain in the @ss

Anyone in the PDX area successful rooting? Are you good at it and can you do it again? I would love to pay you some $$

I want this AT&T crap software off, I want to sideload apps, I want root!!!
[HTC Aria Android Development] Yoshiofthewire:
Having trouble Seeing the Phone in recovery?

Try formatting the SD card that came with the phone in Windows / OS X / Linux like this:
[HTC Aria Android Development] McFinigan90:
How did you fix the "Android 1.0" problem?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Yoshiofthewire:
Install the Driver in the Unrevoked recovery tool
[HTC Aria Android Development] McFinigan90:
Actually, it was a problem with timing the USB connection. Instead of literally hitting the power button then IMMEDIATELY making the connection, I waited for about a second at the HTC screen, then plugged in the USB cord... And, IT WORKED!

I found something similiar when loading clockwork recovery. After hitting the power button, there will be a stage in the loading process it will sit at for 1-2 seconds. THIS is when you want to press enter on your keyboard.

Rooted HTC Aria... Check

Thank you so much attn1 and the XDA team
[HTC Aria Android Development] dahui9:
Ideas anyone? I'm so close I can taste it, why would it find the phone but say its offline?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Yoshiofthewire:
I had that, try the SD card format or another SD card.

Also, for more help, check the chat room.
[HTC Aria Android Development] dahui9:
thanks I'll format again and try my other cards :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] scristopher:
Thank you sooooo much for this!!!!

This did the trick for me...

i copied adb from SDK to /usr/local/bin

chmod 755 (u can do 777 if your not too scared lol)

copy script and name it something i named it adbdev and moved it to /usr/local/bin as well then chmod 777 adbdev

run it and it will reboot the phone into recovery if its not detected select reboot and it will reboot into recovery again keep the process going until adb picks up the phone.

i did this using ubuntu 10.04 x64 after chmod no need to ./adb just adb

(obviously)

btw i never unplugged the phone i just left it plugged in and kept restarting it in recovery if it did not pick it up and the loop would just put it back to recovery, i only had to reboot like 3 times until it was picked up

if it doesnt work after a few times you may need to - sudo adbdev

edit:

also had to:

adb kill-server

sudo adb start-server

to see the device without ?????????????? attached
[HTC Aria Android Development] xdafly:
am running Kubuntu also, curious if you can specify what if any drivers, htc sync or anything you installed or did you simply grab all available archives/zip files in the beginning of the thread and proceed ? did you place these on a specific location on your kubuntu system ?

In case it matters, have just received 2 phones from att and have not even installed the sim or activated these, did setup one to use home wifi and it works fine as is.

does the sim or phone activation matter now or do the root & flash and activate later ?
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
technically, you can root anytime, with or without a sim. You don't need any drivers for linux, just the tools from the Android SDK.
[HTC Aria Android Development] WLogarbo:
First, I would like to thank everyone for their great work and detailed info. Once I had all the prereqs set up, I was rooted, flashed clockwork, partially liberated a nandroid back up of my own ROM, and installed from my sdcard in less than an hour. The initial setup happened over a few days in my spare time, and entailed a ton of reading.

Im working on an ASUS laptop, Windows 7 x64. I didnt need to have any special sd card, or did not need to reformat. It did take a few tries to get the root going, but really didnt seem that hard, of course all the hard work had already been done by the droidiacs.

I look forward to contributing in the future and helping others. Now off to have fun.

Thanks all
[HTC Aria Android Development] jeff.leonard:
Too many choices!!!

Using this procedure, is my current configuration automatically backed-up so I can return to it if there are issues? I am unclear on this because it looks like I need to root first prior imaging the current config. Thanks
[HTC Aria Android Development] xdafly:
someone will correct me if wrong and I haven't yet rooted or flashed the shipped rom on my arias.... but... from reading multiple posts I don't think you have an automatic backup done

one issue that concerns me is the lack of tether or verified *tether working* after applying the liberated aria rom. have not seen any non-flashed rom users posting if they got tethering to work either. I wanted to use the pdanet solution for tethering.

if I may make one suggestion (attn1) .. if possible, please indicate for the benefit of new user in the custom ROM posting, which steps are done on phone (P) and which steps are computer (C) and which are combined, meaning the P must be connected to the C via USB (C+P)

this is the link: xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6906288&postcount=2
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
No, there's no automatic backup done, but if you do mess up, you can always boot into recovery and select the "wipe data/factory reset" option, which will restore your phone if bricked. If you want to do a backup, you can do it from ClockworkMod Recovery. Select Nandroid and then backup.

Also, someone has got tethering to work with EasyTether

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=710593
[HTC Aria Android Development] xdafly:
excellent, they recommend taking SIM out, connect via WiFI to Android Market, load app, put SIM back in and no need to root device.

see android.com/market
[HTC Aria Android Development] ko0ky:
The guys on the IRC channel were extremely helpful. After chatting with them for a little while I was finally able to root my device using attn1's firmware, if not for the helpfulness of the chat channel I think I may still be UNPLUGGING and PLUGGIN.. I swear I thought I was going to damage my battery pulling it in and out so many times.

I was successful using the SD card that came with the device, windows 7 pro/asus EEEpc and Attn1's firmware.

THANKS A TON GUYS!!

If you need HELP, I highly recommend the IRC channel for live help!!

Thanks again guys!

(aka I420)
[HTC Aria Android Development] jeff.leonard:
Worked for me!

I am finally rooted and running the liberated firmware! Funny thing is I kept trying the "One-Thousand-Plug" method and couldn't get my loop to see the device. Then one time I forgot to unplug the USB cable before the next attempt and it found the device! From there it was cake; and I did get my nandroid backup to go back if I didn't like the result. Thanks for all the work that went into this. I am now free from AT&T (Android Tyranny & Terror)!
[HTC Aria Android Development] hocplyr98:
My Superuser permissions page freezes when I go to use an app like ROM Manager. Any fixes? I flashed you're liberated rom too.
[HTC Aria Android Development] xdafly:
how and where do I save the SDK on a Kubuntu system ?

from --> developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

this one --> android-sdk_r06-linux_86.tgz
[HTC Aria Android Development] jeff.leonard:
Check the "su freezes Aria" thread for the solution I used. I would post a link but I am an new user so I'm not allowed.
[HTC Aria Android Development] -Vampyre-:
It worked for me as well being plugged in.
[HTC Aria Android Development] seboj:
Worked for me leaving it plugged in. Took 3 tries, using the adb reboot bootloader method to restart the phone.

Note that HTC Sync did not work properly, however, when I ran adb devices when the phone was in Android, it showed up.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Troggie:
Ok it has been 4 days and 3 different sd cards and I still can not get it to been seen in adb when in recovery. Is there a specific one that seems to be working better than other.. tried the 2GB that came with the Aria.. a 4GB sandisk and an 8GB toshiba.
[HTC Aria Android Development] clickclickpc:
4GB Class 10 Patriot worked for me.
[HTC Aria Android Development] seboj:
Are you formatting the cards in an external card reader first? And have you tried leaving the USB plugged in the whole time yet?

The 2gb that came with the Aria worked for me after formatting.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
The sandisk 2gb that came with my Aria worked. Maybe you could try a different method? Or a different OS? I don't know. Installing/uninstalling HTC sync and random drivers somehow got it to work. For me, it worked when I was installing/uninstalling HTC Sync software, which was weird, like it worked only when installing/uninstalling, but not before or after.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Troggie:
I have tried Win7 and Mint Linux.. same results. I have not tried formatting outside of the Aria yet so I will try that. I did try leaving the plug in and using the ./adb reboot recovery.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Troggie:
Well I tried again only used adb reboot bootloader and that worked with the card formatted from an external source. Now my problem is the Attn stripped rom does not allow me to connect to the Edge network. So I guess I will try the rooted shipped rom.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Troggie:
ok reflash liberated rom and now everything is ok.. thanks. Trick for me was reformatting SD outside of phone and also making sure the phone was off when I re-inserted it so it could not add the HTC stuff to the sd card.
[HTC Aria Android Development] vonsamurai:
Man this is a frustrating process. I've been trying to get the timing right for 2 days to no avail
[HTC Aria Android Development] dahui9:
any easier way to push clockwork now, I keep getting partial transfer no matter what I do even if I try before the load bar, wait for verifying update package, or even waiting a few seconds after. am I just not timing it right or what the most I can get transfered is about 2679kb before it says...

E: Error in /sdcard/update.zip (status 0)

any ideas? I've re-downloaded clockwork and the liberated aria several times now and still nothing.
[HTC Aria Android Development] vonsamurai:
When I boot into recovery (with the blue text) it says "e:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" at the bottom, is this normal?
[HTC Aria Android Development] hi2u2:
yes.

10char
[HTC Aria Android Development] vonsamurai:
Three whole days it took me to root this bastard but I finally got it thanks to attn1 and godzirra

I kept getting the "?????????? no permissions" error

running

and

as root worked for me

this (and my utter n00bness at linux) was my biggest hurdle
[HTC Aria Android Development] darkstarinc:
Took 20min to get this badboy rooted, works much better now. Thanks to attn1 for the ROMs and the how-to in order to get er done.

Much Thanks!

*Edit*

This was done on a 16GB Sandisk microSD, Windows 7 in a WM on my Macbook Pro.
[HTC Aria Android Development] graceflanger:
Just rooted my phone, worked great.
[HTC Aria Android Development] josh84:
Just got my aria today and already have it rooted. Thanks for the detailed instructions.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mtritsch:
I must be doing something wrong Had this phone for 3 days and I am still stuck at the loop and getting the phone in recovery. It will not see the phone in recovery mode no matter what I do. i have tried the 1 second and it does not see it. I plug the phone immediately after selecting recovery and that does not work either. I have 2 seperate Gold Cards 1 PNY 4GB and a Sandisk 16GB formatted like yoshiofthewire indicated. I am a noob at linux and could not even install sdk tools. I did get all the drivers installed correctly on my Win 7 Home premium machine. Is there something that I am missing?
[HTC Aria Android Development] seboj:
Have you tried leaving the USB plugged in the whole time, and using the adb reboot bootloader command to restart the phone if it fails? I couldn't get mine to work with the One Thousand PLUG method, but it worked 3rd time with leaving the plug in.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tiga2001:
Well, I assumed you were able to push oda.zip as /sdcard/update.zip successfully? Have you tried just running the update with oda.zip, without pushing the other update.zip package? The file should verify successfully, that was the case for me. I did mine successfully when I did "adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip" right after I see the verifying file... message. Hope this helps.
[HTC Aria Android Development] lordicer:
For me it was all in the proper formatting of the SD card to get this working. I was using the stock 2 gig SD card that came with the phone, and trying to format it in my work laptop's internal card reader (XP SP2). I tried to format it countless times but adb devices would never show anything in recovery mode and the only driver it ever loaded was an android storage device.

I took it home and used a Windows Vista system and a Sandisk external USB card reader to format the card as FAT32 per the screenshot posted in this thread. I once again copied over the ROM and attempted the process. This time it wanted to load an ADB driver but couldn't find it. I downloaded HTC Sync and unplugged/replugged the phone while still in the ! recovery screen. At this point it loaded the driver and I never even had to run the loop.bat to see the phone. From there adb devices showed it right away and following the rest of the steps were easy as pie. Hope this helps.
[HTC Aria Android Development] xdafly:
I do not see HTC Sync listed in the original steps from attn1 as required or needed. If he left it out, there must be a reason.