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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
that reminds me... VIDEO IS LIVE!!!

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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] RavenWulf:
yo King, thanks for your time putting up the how-to videos and your patience with an old former Army mechanic turned truck driver. with your videos my wife is almost confident enough to let me at her MTS since I have succeeded in flashing mine and not bricking it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] NJAZ:
Instead try:

adb push /C:/Documents and Settings/pcurfman/Desktop/androidtest/flash_image /data/local
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
i'm so glad i could help you out raven! how do you like the videos that i put out yesterday with the picture in picture method?? Personally I like that you can see the device and whats going on onscreen
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] SpudZooka:
So I did everything to the "T" in the instructions, when that failed I even followed the Video to a "T". I have everything, when i reboot tho it does not do the progress bar, it just goes to the bootloader screen and sits there until i give it a command. What am i missing here?

Thanks

Spud
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
as before... DID YOU COPY THE ESPRIMG.ZIP TO YOUR SD CARD FIRST?!?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] SpudZooka:
I did read that, but I did not find where to either download or to find it to put it on the SD card. Where would i find that?

And thanks for the awesome fast reply.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
really?

Step 1: read the instructions again... starting at the very top.

Step 2: If you still can't find the file, go back to Step 1.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] SpudZooka:
For I am but a no0b lol.

NVM im a noob, i found it.

Sorry and Thank you. It wouldn't let me post for 5 minutes lol. I found it right after I posted that last one.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
ahaha, everyones a noob at some point... be glad its sooner rather than later!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] SpudZooka:
Yeah seriously, with kid and mother-in-law being an ass ... yeah lol. Now to install the legend rom.

Thanks again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poacher2010:
anyone still having trouble rooting or flashing, I have a chatroom open for you guys for a couple hours

http://tinychat.com/mytouchsliderootinghelp
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Thanks Eugene. Had no issues what so ever flashing this. Onto a rom!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Z51:
im trying this but I get this error message

cannot stat 'flash_image' : no such file or directory

and I dragged and dropped the folder along with the actual flash_image file

im stumped what can I do?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tmobilewinguser:
when i type su i get permissions denied

NVm i figured it out thanks anyways
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zachjf:
can we remove the ESPRIMG.zip from the sd card after we have flashed the ENG downgrade to the phone? everytime I go into recovery mode it tries to load the file
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
yeah you can... no need after downgrading to keep that on there
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zachjf:
ah ok, thanks! Thanks for all your hard work as well!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zachjf:
After installing Quickboot from the market I am having an issue, not major, but an issue none the less. When I first rooted the phone my superuser permissions worked great, had the icon, could allow superuser status etc but after flashing to the ENG rom my superuser permissions freezes the second it opens. I still have superuser access because I can see it when I run Terminal Emulator and when I adb to the phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
This is not ment to be an everyday Rom!! It's only Vital for the testkey in recovery that gets flashed!!

Flash this, update the Radio & flash to a new Rom like Slidemeroot2.zip

The only thing we need is the Recovery from it.

Also this should be Sticky atm, as this is the only way as of now to flash a recovery!

The Recovery gives use the abilty to flash any update.zip after it is signed with testkeys... But we are using ClockworkMod Recovery due to options it has..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] zachjf:
I should have mentioned I was running SlideM at the time of the glitch and I'm pretty sure I traced the issue back to a corrupted root because the issue was still there after removing SlideM. I went back and re-downloaded everything, re-rooted, re-installed ENG build and tested by installed Quickboot to it and the issue was resolved, fresh copy of SlideM works fine now.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] alaricmucino:
How to video

Does anyone know if there is a how to video on doing this procedure? Thanks in advance!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
i keep getting signature verification failed, after i go into recovery to update.zip...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
I flashed this and lost superuser ninja app. I understand that its necessary to flashing this in order to move to a new rom. Can someone explain what I did wrong?

Also, I can't go into recovery. I'm stuck in the blue recovery and when I choose the update.zip option it wont take me to the green recovery. I have the slide root.zip in the root of my sdcard..... any help is very very appreciated.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
Anyone? Plz? This build runs a little slow.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
You did actually have ESPRIMG.zip on your sdcard and flash it (step 9 & 10), right? Sounds like you don't actually have the test keys installed.

I would try reinstalling this engineering release again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
Yeah. Guess what. When ibrooted I swapped SD cards so I could get pass that pesky loop step. God I'm a noob. Gonnaa move the files over. Sorry. Ill let u all know how this turns out.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
rooting the second mytouch slide, my sisters. for some reason i am not being prompted to push the volume up button during the final steps.

when i did this last time there was a bit of a checklist going off, thats not the case anymore.... any ideas?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Do you have ESPRIMG on the sdcard root?? 1st step:

Before we Start, You must Have ROOT & Downloaded this .zip and Place on your Sdcard

File is Here > http://outboundlink.net/anxo/dr_ta_1...7/ESPRIMG.html
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
Yeah I do have it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nekomecchan:
Cant get into shell

so i read thru the entire thread and didnt see this issue... i can get as far as push the correct files but when i go to type in adb shell it gives me this error..

-exec 'system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

and i cant get any further!! Any suggestions??

...so frustrated.. had many issues rooting and getting adb devices to even recognize my phone either offline or in recovery when in recovery mode...had to delete and read drivers for several hours to get it to come up. yip!

Appreciate any help that someone can offer!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
did you make sure to mount system?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
What sucks is that I was able to root. Didn't change any files on my sdcard, have that espringm file on my sdcard root too. When I turn on the phone whille holding volume down it checks for that espring file but never asks me to hit volume up. So I rerooted over and over again. I'm at a horrible dead end.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
did you watch the video??
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sheek360:
I saw the how to root video
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] cidica:
nevermind....stupid question is stupid....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rlacsamana1989:
Sounds like you should do a nandroid back up of a stock slide and re-root. Sometimes it helps to start fresh.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] coltfoet5:
I have searched through the forum and havent seen anything that is exactly what I am going through.

I rooted successfully a couple days ago then tried to flash a rom without this build first. Now I can't boot into anything besides clockwork... From clockwork is there anyway I can get this flashed onto the phone?

I pushed the two files successfully but when I type adb shell it doesnt let me and im assuming because I don't have a rom on with SU. Any help would be appreciated. Im on aim and skype if someone is very willing to help.

AIM: coltfoet5

Skype: colt.seaberg
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
Sounds like you need to revert to stock and start over.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=705345
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] coltfoet5:
thank you. Doing it now
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bled82:
This is so you can have clockwork recovery on the phone without useing the adb and loop method to access recovery .
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Clom801:
I was trying to flash Eng but after the last step (when the blue bar goes all the way up) it says update failed older version installed>volume up to reboot. Could someone point me in the right direction? :confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
Do steps 1-7 again, something got missed or didn't take.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rguyden:
I need some help understanding steps 1 & 2. Can some one explain these steps more clearly? I have downloaded ESPRIMG.zip & SlideEng-package.zip to my hard drive. Am I supposed to copy them to the root of my sd card before I begin, or are steps 1 & 2 the process in which the files get moved to the sd card?

In step 1, is "flash_image one" the ESPRING.zip file?

and Step 2 the "mtdo.img" the SlideEng-package. zip file?

Please help me understand?:confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rguyden:
Radio Mods for Mytouch Slide

Are there any radio mods available yet for the Mytouch Slide that will allow it to access data on the 850 -1900 bands? I have AT&T and purchased the slide because I was so happy with my Mytouch 3G, but haven't been able to use my Slide outside the house:(
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mdajunkie:
Theres a great "How To" video on page 6, but to answer your question you have to copy the espring.zip to your sd card, and the slideEng package you have save onto your computer and extract the package into preferably the same folder you used for root "android sdk tools" or what ever it was that you named your folder.

As far as i know there hasnt been any radio mods released as far as using the slide on AT&T.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sultan.of.swing:
Had this happen to me as well. Can't remember what step it is but when you chmod and put the numbers in there is a * that goes after the numbers. If you don't put that you will get permission denied on the next to last step and if you try to reboot and flash the device you will get the error you got.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mdajunkie:
its step 6

chmod 04755 * make sure u put a space after the numbers i kept putting chmod 04755* until i realized there was suppose to be a space after 04755 lol
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sultan.of.swing:
Ok you need to download the esprimg.zip and place this to the root of your sd card. Do not unzip the file place it on the card as it is in zip format

On the eng package I would suggest making a folder somewhere like your desktop. Download the slide eng package and UNZIP this to the folder you created. Once its unzipped you will now see 2 files. One named flash_image and the other named mtd0.img. these are the 2 files that you will be pushing to the phone.

The esprimg.zip is the actual OS that gets flashed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sultan.of.swing:
Yep that's the step. Without the space and the * it will never work. Lol made the same mistake myself
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
The radio isn't likely to be able to support the other frequencies. You can use data, just not 3G.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rguyden:
Just data would be fine, but right now, I am not getting any data edge or 3G
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Radio is not the Issue you are Having with ATT if you have Signal, but no Data / Edge / 3G..

The Problem you are having is the APN list..

You will need to look up the APN for ATT & once you find them, Next go to..

Menu > Setting > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names > Menu key > New APN.

From there you would enter the info needed to connect to Data.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rguyden:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Now I can keep my Mytouch Slide:D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
I'm stuck in the same spot

I'm assuming doing this fixes the su issue. Am I correct in thinking that? And if that is correct is it this?

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

EDIT: I'm a giant moron. I had my phone on charge only. I set it to disk drive and tried su again and my phone asked to allow it and now I'm fine. Keeping my original post in case someone else has a problem
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Where are you getting this error at.. More info = More help, we can't guess as what & where you're getting this at & what step your on..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] RaffieKol:
Thanks Bro Got It Working!!!!!!

Now I can flash everything real easy. This Is A must do step for everyone if they want to root.

Thanks

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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poetik517:
after flashing this, updating the radio, and a wipe, i have 75mb of internal storage. is this normal? have yet to flash anoter rom and wanted to know before i do so as that's my next step. i thought i was supposed to have at least 130mb after a complete wipe.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Yes this is Normal... Like I said this is only Needed for the Recovery, as it has Test-key & lets use flash Clockworkmod Recovery or to flash a Properly Signed Update.zp

The only Reason I'm not Posting all my Roms in Update.zip Form, is now that we have a Working ( Soft ) Recovery, I don't want to get all the update.zip mixed up, as this would easily get confusing for everyone
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poetik517:
the below average number just scared me a little bit after reading everybody else's 100+. i'm still in the process of flashing a rom so i'm a little bit behind. guess the other number will come afterwards.

thanks for the reply & all your work. this has been a little bit of a challenge for me coming from winmo. i'm so used to updates/hacks just involving installing a file lol.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poetik517:
i'd also like to note that i kinda missed a crucial step, making a nandroid backup for my stock rooted. problem was i couldn't for the life of me get into stock recovery (wasn't aware of the key combos..reading is fundamental). so i just went ahead w/ this process and onward to slidemeroot5r1.

for reverting, am i pretty much screwed without my backup? or would a titanium backup do me justice?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wheeziestorphan:
I did everything exactly as it says, I put the esprimg in the sd card but when I do volume down + power it just takes me to the normal bootloader and doesn't do anything. I don't get the "push volume up".. I've tried about 5 times now
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
The file is called "ESPRIMG.zip" and is in the root directory of your sdcard?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wheeziestorphan:
yeah its in the root. It tries to load the file but it says "no image or wrong image"

EDIT: So it finally worked after I downloaded the files again and tried it all over. Something must have been wrong with the first files I downloaded. Thanks for the help everyone.. I guess.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dustinearley:
Before I ask my question, I just wanna say thanks to everyone for all the help being given out. I have barely used cmd in my life before getting the Slide and I have had little to no problems rooting and flashing the CM 5.0.8 port.

Now my question...

I understand the reason for flashing the eng-release. I assume that eventually there will be a more permanent recovery, and I understand that right now the best we have is the ClockWork soft recovery. If I decide to flash the eng-release now, is there going to be any negative side effects in the long run?

For example, trouble flashing a more permanent recovery. Or any radio issues.

Thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] skame44:
Ok so im trying to flash the eng-release but im stuck on the first 2 steps. after trying to:

Step 1.

adb push /{the folder u downloaded it to}/flash_image /data/local

Step 2.

adb push /{the folder u downloaded it to}/mtd0.img /data/local

i got the message sayin 0 out of whaterever number of bytes transferred. My phone is rooted and i followed everything step by step. can someone please help me!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] amack10:
Every time I do the first step and adb push it says no such file or directory any help
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] NJAZ:
This engineering image was very useful to me ... it helped to hold access to clockwork mod from the stock recovery. There is some talk that this engineering image somehow harms or alters the system partition/memory configuration that the MT3GS ships with. I have both a Slide that has been rooted and a Slide that has not ever been rooted and they are identical in every way after I un-rooted the one I had rooted and put it back to stock. There is no data to support that the vast majority of factory shipped MT3GS are adversely affected by this engineering image in the least bit. I will eventually root my Slide again and when I do I will definitely be flashing this engineering image.

Don't forget to upgrade your radio to the current radio release after flashing.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] thekidshellz:
has anyone ever heard of , during step 1 and step 2, just running the adb commands list? when i hit adb push no matter what follows it just shows me the commands as if i had typed adb help, does the same with adb pull, but remount, start-server and all other commands work, this is driving me crazy lol i have root and have rooted several phones before just never seen this happen.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
What is the exact command you are typing?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ace42588:
can you give us the EXACT steps your taking?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] thekidshellz:
i have downloaded ESPRIMG.zip, put it in a folder and unzipped it, as well as downloaded the Slide Eng package and placed it on my sd card, i open the prompt, cd.. back to the top directory, cd to the android tools directory, at this point i ran adb devices and it is recognizing my phone as a device, i then run , adb push /C:\Documents and Settings\Mobility1\Desktop\Android SDK\android-sdk-windows\tools/flash_image /data/local, that directory is where my tools are located and when i m there, all adb commands seem to work but those, i can adb shell and i get the # with SU, regardless what folders are after adb push it just runs the adb help commands, i tried just doing adb push and adb pull to see the result and same thing just goes right to the command list so i m not sure it could have anything to do with my directory, thanks for the quick responses guys
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ace42588:
try dropping the two files directly into the tools folder (in most cases, c:\android-sdk\tools) no folders, just right in there. then once your in your tools directory in a command line:

adb push <file name> <destination>

so this:

adb push /C:\Documents and Settings\Mobility1\Desktop\Android SDK\android-sdk-windows\tools/flash_image /data/local

turns into this:

adb push flash_image /data/local/

if thats exactly what youre doing, i apologize, the post is a little hard to follow. for simplicity sake, i would move your sdk folder to the root of your drive, i.e. move everything to c:\android-sdk

i apologize if i sound condescending, just trying to get on the same page with you
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] thekidshellz:
that did the trick! just did what you said and must have been something about simplifying it or running the cmd prompt right of the directory but it worked and i got it all done and flashed, thanks a lot for the help!!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DenominatorX:
I could use some help here-

I am rooted - and have Super User on the device -

When I get to step 5 -

Step 5.

cd /data/local

it says:

cd: can't cd to /data/local

I can cd to /data and when I do an ls in that directory, I can see that the "local" dir is there-

I installed Root Explorer and the "local" directory has a lock on it - and I can't browse to it - any suggestions?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Your phone needs to be booted up. You need to use ADB SHELL followed by the SU command. Your phone *might* display a dialog box asking you to approve the superuser request. After this you should be good to go, so push the two files again and follow the instructions.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DenominatorX:
Yep - phone is booted up & in debugging mode

I type in just like the directions say. When i typed su and hit enter, I got the popup on my phone and allowed it - SuperUser is showing the permission. It isn't working ;( Below is what happened.

C:\Android\SDK\tools> adb push c:/Android/SlideEng/flash_image /data/local

950 KB/s <0 bytes in 76044.000s>

C:\Android\SDK\tools> adb push c:/Android/SlideEng/mtd0.img /data/local

1170 KB/s <0 bytes in 655360.000s>

C:\Android\SDK\tools> adb shell

# su

su

# cd /data/local

cd /data/local

cd: can't cd to /data/local

#

EDIT: factory wiping my phone fixed my problem. Not sure why, but whatev.

EDIT 2 (Thanks): Thank you to everyone who has put time and effort into assisting others. To those of you who created videos, guides, walkthroughs, and assistance on the board, this has been very helpful. It's amazing how smart you guys are. Seriously.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rpare05:
Help please

So I have root access on my slide, but just like when I rooted it, I'm having issues with adb even finding my device to push the image file to.

I type into cmd:

adb push flash_image /data/local

and all I get is error: device not found

Any suggestions on how to make adb find my device again?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
Do you have USB debugging turned on in the options? Make sure that is on and the drivers are loaded properly.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rpare05:
Yes, USB debugging is on, so it must be my drivers. This happened when I rooted the device as well, I wonder why it keeps happening
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] LeoGetz78:
Hey everyone, I need some help. So here is my problem.... when trying to flash this Eng-Release, I can get all the way to step 7, where I am suppose to # /data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img, well when I hit enter this is what I get....

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img

mtd: read all-zero block at 0x00000000; skipping

mtd: MEMGETBADBLOCK returned 1 at 0x00020000 <errno=0>

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

error writing misc: No space left on device

#

I have searched, read all that I can think of, re-rooted, reset, and nothing is working. Any help with this would be great....

Thanks in advance.