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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sombionix:
If you're already rooted, you shouldn't have to get adb to stick. Assuming you have the update.zip file on your sdcard, Just reboot your phone into the bootloader, select 'recovery', when taken to the screen with the triangle, press volume up + power to get the menu, select 'update.zip', you should then be taken to clockwork mod recovery.

Since your phone is already rooted, this may be confusing to people who are actually still trying to root their phone. Getting 'device offline' to stick in adb is necessary to root, but not if your ALREADY rooted.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dav3wash:
embarrassed

Haha i just thought about that. they can't follow my directions without root. **:o**

Well maybe you can help me with what you said. I have the update on my sd, but when i try and flash it, it aborts it.

i get this:

E: failed to verify whole-file signature

E: signature verification failed

Installation aborted

I've downloaded it a couple different time, replaced it, but I keep getting this error ...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] shadowleo85:
Try whatever method u want to try if one works and one doesn't than fine... people can the simplest thing a placebo effect or whatever they want to call it... and we havfe all tested our theories with our own results... I offered a mere super simple idea that has proved to work under a rigorous test of over 200 tries with the same results... which clearly isn't luck but more like a proven fix for some... instead of knocking the method that can work and all it takes is a simple swap that very well may work and doesn't take different steps to do aimple, easy and straight to the point... I really don't care if u feel the need to say its a placebo or strictly luck... my results on my phone prove otherwise... so basically what I'm saying is if all else fails it doesn't hurt to swap out ur sdcard for a different one because it may very well stick continously as it does on both my mac and my windows pc...

To the naysayers kiss my grits... if ur method worked on ur phone I'm not knocking u... we r all trying to help those that can't get loop to. Stick and I'm offering up another super easy way that has worked for me and others... don't like the method don't try It but don't knock it cause it doesn't hurt to try it... takes all of 2 seconds to swap them

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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
We get it. All your sdcard are belong to us.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nomadrider123:
well I tried it but my phone is still a ***** even tried a different formated sd card too. tried 3 different times incase i had the timing wrong. thank you for giving me something to try
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] here.david:
What if mytouch 3g slider has hardware issues

GET TO THE GREEN BAR THEN NOTHING...

No one has listed their hardware:

ESPRESSO PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.52.0000

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0102

RADIO-7.08.35.04S

MAR 23 2010-21:22:49

MAYBE THAT IS THE ISSUE TOO ?????????

I HAVE ROOT MANY G1'S AND TESTED JUST ABOUT EVERY G1 ROM AND ALL THE 'TRY THIS' AND NEVER HAD THIS MUCH TROUBLE.....NOW WIFI DOES WORK AND IT KEEPS CHECKING THE SYNC UNLESS I MANUALLY STOP IT...WITH ONLY GOOGLE CHECKED TOO....

DID EACH WAY ON MY UBUNTU 10.04, 9.10, win7, AND XP64 STILL NO GO...........
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tonyriceroni:
wow what a day..

so..... YESSSSSSSSSSS after 8 hours finally got my phone rooted

I couldnt get adb or whatever to recognize my device until i tried the htc sync idea, i saw someone post the link to the mytouch one but if you go to it, it only gave you the 2.0.33 version(well in my case it did) which wont work because it wont recognize the slide.

after some googling i found the right one that was sync with the mytouch and uploaded it to 4shared

http://www.4shared.com/file/GJsJJCde/htcsync2035.html

some problems i noticed whenever i was doing the rooting was whenever i was in bootloader my phone would not install correctly to my computer(It was like Android 1.0 with the yellow caution sign) so I manually installed it myself by going to(this is on windows 7 btw) start->manage -> device manger -> click on the android 1.0 -> update drivers software -> browse my computer for driver software -> let me pick -> you should see android devices or something android (can't rememeber x.x), go into it -> select tmobile my touch slide (this should be here because of the htc sync, and assuming you have sync'd your phone)

now your phone should be recognizable while doing the adb process

*Note - In my case whenever I turned off my phone to do the rooting process leaving it in sync (instead of charge only or Disk Drive) made the adb loop detect my phone alot easier. I had missed a step during eugenes process and thought i messed up so when i started over i turned off my phone in disk drive mode and then doing the adb loop thing my phone would never got recognized, so im probably wrong but if your using the htc sync, turn off your phone in sync mode and adb loop will have a better chance catching your phone (again this is just through my experience, have no idea if it even matters what mode you turn your phone off in)

Good luck to everyone rooting because I was frustrated and almost to the point where i was going to quit but stuck it out and it was worth it, plus it feels great to finally accomplish this after failing so much.

Thank you to everyone who made rooting the slide possible.

If anyone is having problems rooting or just starting(i could just give you the exact way i did it and hope it works :\), i don't mind helping, just send a pm because i dont want to flood this topic i guess :o
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Well, as much as I was sure about it before, the SD card is no longer making a difference. The only thing that has changed is the card I was originally using has now been formatted also, but using 3 different SD cards is making no difference in getting my device seen (which it is being seen in recovery).

It is so bizzare. As many many many many many many others have said, you have to simply keep trying. I got rooted last week, but I have been trying to duplicate the issue I had with my original sd card I used in my G1, and have not been able to.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kkeller416:
permisson denied root problem

hello all

first time poster here at xda, i recently upgraded my razor to a behold 2 then quickly sold the behold 2 when i could root and found there would be no updates and picked up the slide 3g.

i followed the tutorial completly twice now and confirmed that everything is installing as it should, however when i get to the end after installing superuser.apk i try to type su

and after a moment i get a permission denied

so i know i dont have root but as i said before the rest of the procedure i can follow exactly and everything is as it should be.

is there any known issues others have had(im sorry i couldnt read through 60 pages of threads)

any help would be great,

my phone came with android 2.1 w/update 1 i guess, also i had to use install htc sync to get adb drivers to install. im still kinda green at all this so anything i missed would be appreciated

thanks

kev
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Some are not noticing that when you type "su" and Enter, you have to allow it on the phone, by a pop-up that comes up... did you get this window?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tonyriceroni:
I just noticed in the eugene original post between steps 7 and 8, it doesnt tell you how to get to the menu(the part where you should hit volume up and then power button) so you can select update.zip. I know the guy in the video shows you but i think it would be good idea to put it there
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] lviv73:
Finally managed to root and install SlideM rom.

I have 2 questions:

If i do system restore from options menu or recovery menu,will i go back to ENG rom or will i stay in SlideM rom?I'm asking because after i did system restore on ENG rom i lost root and had to root again.I wanna clear cache but afraid to loose root or revert back to ENG rom.

Second question.I always used root explorer to modify my /system/app folder,but i cant,it wont erase or copy anything to /system/app folder at all.I mounted R/W but still cant do it.Is there a way to erase/install to /system/app folder through adb?Or adb method doesn't work aether?If i can do it through adb could someone post the commands on how to install apps to /system/app folder and erase apps in that folder.

Sorry for many questions but im a beginner and only android experience i have is from damned Behold 2,lol.Thanx in advance.

Thanx for your work Eugine,and for advice on my next android phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Phantisy:
not sure if anyone has noticed but when I have it in recover mode windows is loading it as a disk drive and not an android device. Think could have something to do with everyone's problem? When i press recovery and its plugged in I notice in device manager it will load it as an android device for a few seconds and this is when I can see my phone in offline mode but when the black screen comes up it unloads the android device and loads it as a disk drive. Does this both with and without an SD card in.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DoriftoShoes:
When I run the script and boot into recovery adb devices lists this:

List of devices attached

????????????	no permissions

It ends up not letting me push anything saying I don't have the proper permissions for the device...

Does anyone have any tips?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Phantisy:
I got that in linux but not windows. You using linux?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DoriftoShoes:
Yup...Linux Mint...Let me scrounge up a windows machine and give it a go...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DoriftoShoes:
Now I'm at the same point as a lot of you...shows offline for a split second then doesn't show up at all...

Time to go troubleshoot :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DoriftoShoes:
I tried this 30+ times tonight but it would only say Offline once and then never show it again...here is what I had to do to get it to work:

When the loop script is running and you go into recovery mode you will see it pause for a second right before it shows "Offline"...right when you see that hit Ctrl+C to end the script. This allowed me to see the device in offline mode and follow the rest of the steps to get root.

This may have been a fluke but I can tell you every time I did this before that it only showed Offline ONCE before going right back to not showing any devices. This worked the first time I tried it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] blazeston3:
I finaly made it to the last step then when i type su it says permissions denied is there anything i can do besides start all over?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tonyriceroni:
look on your phone and make sure you allow it
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rgbmode:
Im lost

I got a new Slide been reading and trying to root it like for ever now.

Think I might have an updated ver.

_____________________

Bootloader info:

Espresso PVT ship s-ON

HBOOT-052.0000

Microp-0620

Touch Panel synt0102

Radio 0-7 .08.35.04s

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Changed phone applications settings to usb-debug and usb to charge only

I am using a Tancend 8GB MSD-HC class-6 (same used to root g1, my mytouch both 32b) wiped fat32 partition before begining.

If I do "./adb reboot recovery" with phone turned on on and home screen or "./adb reboot bootloader" then select recovery or "./adb reboot fastboot" then select bootloader the end result is that I am in recovery mode and "./adb devices" always returns= "phoneserial" recovery

so getting it to locked on adb is not the issue.

I can push using adb files to the sdcard with no problem, yet it will not update using the ota.zip "./adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip"

No matter what I try I get:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E: signaure verification failed

well I read suppose to fail first time right? so kept going, did next step

"./adb push slideroot.zip /sdcard/"

then tried "./adb push update.zip /sdcard/" waited just before green bar/started again then tried from when I saw it/ tried again from start and ect. Never see the clockwork recovery.

I have exp following steps, and before someone rants that the answer is on a page before this one let me tell you I have followed and read all the pages in this thread. The reason why I post this is bc Im stumped now and seek advice on what else can be the issue. OR any bright ideas?

I even installed flashrec to see if it would work and nothing tried using another class6 card made a gold card too and nothing. Again I can push and detect the phone in adb no problem the rest is the issue. I even tried fastboot to flash ESPRIMG.zip and it fails says my ver instlled is newer. Ofcourse I dont have root so just did that to give it a try.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] blazeston3:
how do i do that sorry i'm kinda a noob
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rgbmode:
You should be able to just click on super user if it states that it is denied you can change it to allow and make sure remember is checked.

Or just remove it (long hold select forget) then try typing su again.

edit:

info on superuser.apk

super user is the application that was installed in the rooting process.

if on your phones home screen

open your applications drawer

click on superuser icon

there should be a line there reading terminal (should be the only thing in there unless you have given another app root access)

long press or click hit menu | then select to allow and remember | or forget ... then open terminal type su and give access(allow) and remember

I am assuming this is the answer since I myself am not able to flash clockwork on mine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rgbmode:
Anyone elses hardware match ours and got root?

LOL this reminds me of the different SPL on my gen 1 mytouch made a Goldcard for it. I rooted my friends fender with ease. The problem with the mytouch slide is there is no easy flash SPRM.nbh file that will automatically downgrade and allow u to use flashrec.apk to root it. I tried making a goldcard following the method for the mytouch and then putting the SPRMIMG.zip on the sdcard and it would not load it.

Maybe we have a perfected version ? I noticed your specs same as mine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sleepykit:
Big thank you to Eugene. Following his advice, got my slide rooted no problem. Mine hitch were ADB drivers for win 7 32bit. Had to install PdaNet to get them to behave, but what can I say, worked fine after that.

So thank you many times over. My happily rooted phone agrees. :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jefwallbanger:
i get recovery 100% when i use my g1 sd card. its the one that came with the g1 1gb. but everytime i try to so recovery it goes 100% it is partitioned. i think partitioning has something to do with it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] televate:
I get all the way through, then when I do adb shell, and try the su command, keeps telling me permission denied. Superuser installed fine on the device, but shell won't let me access it. Any ideas? Sorry if the answer has already been found somewhere, a lot of pages to skim through.

edit: nvm, got it to work after i formatted my sd card.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kkeller416:
permission allowed

thanks

when your at the end and type su you have to look at your phone to click allow.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Rene-357:
finally thanksssss. i got root after all. the thing is the timing.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rbgmode:
Aight bro it aint the phone system or anything of that sort.

As u can see I been up all night doing this.

But finally can go get some rest now.

Where I was getting stuck the timing.

if you get in throgh Bootlaoder menu pick recovery. edit1: "If not working ensure u have latest android sdk and used the pdanet (u can ensure correct driver by installing while having phone in bootloader menu)

before you even hit recovery unleash loop.bat or loop.sh if on unix/linux

once phone detected offline unplug and replug quickly(better if use usb to computer end instead of phone connection end) now type adb devices should say recovery u can stop the batch/sh file now" /endedit1

write access is not enabled. so you must click on update.zip and it fails, It is suppose to.

Enter: adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip

after that enter: adb push slideroot.zip /sdcard/

(no need to click update for the previous two commands)

just push them to the card.

Then this is the final one that must be exactly 1-2 seconds after you press the power putton to select apply update.zip

I notice the bar has to reach about 3-5% but it is rather fast then press enter to release the beast of "adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip" the ending is not necesary to place update.zip at the end but I just did it to ensure it is trasnfered and named correctly.

If it does not work, no need to shut phone down and all that crap.

Just keep doing ota.zip and then the last one adb push update.zip remember that you will see the green bar and as soon as that little green comes to load hit enter. It is really like 1-2 seconds. It reminds me of redSn0w(iphone/touch pwn)

Thanks to all the devs and people that made this a reality. Eugene thanks man. And to all the people that wrote on the 61 pages of this thread that I got to read and kept my hopes up with the success stories.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] justince:
Guys, i'm a complete newb because this is my first android device...however, on my Aria, once i made my old SD card a goldcard, it recognized it into recovery immediatly, not offline..

EDIT: Success...

Every time with a goldcard when i go into recovery it automatically recognized it in recovery, however it finally worked once i plugged it in and out anyway.

I highly suggest if your still having problems to try a goldcard.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] orrorin:
Ok, I know the word on the street is that using a 16GB card helps, but I have a different experience. I was one of the people that absolutely could not get this root to work. I tried hundreds of times. It only worked when I formatted my card, then it worked the second time. I have heard this to also be the case with the Incredible.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Saneless:
I may have a solution but am unable to test. I haven noticed that once i enter recovery if i unplug my phone and plug it back in it will show in the loop cycle as in recovery.

if someone is willing to try this and let me know if this work follow these steps:

Run the loop while in the boot loader

Enter recovery

Run the update.zip to enter clockwork recovery

once you are in clockwork recovery unplug your phone and plug it back in.

Im not sure if it has something to do with my phone already being rooted? But it does not seem to be... i may be wrong though.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] marty22877:
i've got root!!!!!!!! anyone saying it's not the sdcard is smoking crack. i used a different sd card and it stayed attached the very first time.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Saneless:
Did you try my method also?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] marty22877:
no, you posted it when i was switching sd cards
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
:rolleyes: Okay. So I must be smoking crack to have rooted two slides -- one with a class 10 16 GB card and the other with the stock card. You people are absolutely ridiculous. The placebo effect is overwhelming your sensibilities...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dughug:
Rooting my own Slide

So I'm hoping if I follow the guide to a tee, that's posted on the first page, that I'll successfully root my slide? Can anyone confirm this? I have the stock micro SD card that came with my phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] marty22877:
i'm not going to get into an intarnet battle, but i work for a software company and i work in technical support, i test builds daily, constantly working with all different kinds of hardware, servers from 2000 up to 2008 r2. the only different variable that i had over win 7, win 7 64 bit and xp was a different sd card, so how is that placebo?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] i0nicx:
since I am having no luck with rooting via win xp or win7 i just setup my laptop with ubuntu 9.04. I have the android sdk setup and all my files in place. I'll let you guys know how it goes. I also got a 16gb sd card from my friend, going to try that after doing the regular stuff.

hopefully using ubuntu will resolve any possible driver issues.

if anyone has any advice with rooting via ubuntu/linux, it would be appreciated.

and if I get it rooted in ubuntu, I'll throw together a half ass guide for everyone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Because plenty of people have achieved root on THEIR Slides using a wide variety of sdcards, INCLUDING the card that shipped with their phone! I don't want to beat a dead horse, but if there was actually merit to this silly myth then there would be a heckuvalot of people who still hadn't actually rooted their phone.

The fact is that this exploit relies entirely on exploiting a condition that arises purely by luck. It took me about 7 reboots and a very well-timed loop abort to root my Slide with a class 10 16 GB card; it only took 3 reboots to root my buddy's Slide with the stock class 2 8 GB card. Yet nobody pushing this silly myth can explain why this is, except to say that "it works!"

Oy vey... Like I told somebody else, what's *really* helping you achieve root is rubbing your lucky rabbit's foot, turning your underwear inside out, sticking gum inside your left ear, and humming The Battle Hymn Of The Republic. Because all of those suggestions make just as much sense as the sdcard business being pushed by a select few.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
im calling BS on the battle hymn of the republic... its gotta be the south shall rise again! at least thats how mine worked :P
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
LOL -- no, we're both wrong. It *must* be that you have to hum Love Is A Battlefield by Pat Benatar.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
love is a battlefield? what about that hula dance i did while standing on my head drinking coke through a straw connected to my nose?? didnt that have anything to do with it??
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] i0nicx:
well that explains it. i stopped singing 'i'd die for you' by bon jovi and switched to 'love is a battlefield' pat benatar. BAM rooted. you guys rock.....jk:p