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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Monban:
You may have to type 'su' twice for it to work, not 100% sure why, but it shouldn't really effect much.

http://www.awesome-opossum.com/images/IMG_1642_resize.jpg

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Thanks eugene373!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sino8r:
sadly, thats what Im using. Does the android 1.0 deal in fastboot even matter? I mean the device is recognized when it on. and in recovery but not fastboot. can someone confirm this?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
I have the latest drivers. I've installed HTC Sync. I've installed Rev 3 via SDK, I even installed PDANet since somehow that crappy little app sometimes fixes it, but it even failed... I am at a loss...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] krypto16:
Definitely having the issue where wifi does not replace the E or 3G icon. As for bookmarks I am using Dolphin HD but even in normal browser I do not have the same issue.

EDIT - After leaving it on wifi for a while it has replaced the E icon on the phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] spiderboyy:
Lost

Yep, I'm at a loss too, this just doesn't wanna work. I've installed all the drivers correctly, but it doesnt wanna install the ADB driver when it goes into recovery, I give up
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sino8r:
no root for you either? or speaking about my sitiuation?

The question is does anyones phone show as anything but android 1.0 in fastboot. that is for anyone with or without root...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] krypto16:
Thanks for pointing this out. I was doing everything pervect but it kept failing to give su permissions. I added the step for mounting system and it worked like a champ. Cannot believe I overlooked tat step.

Thanks for pointing this out....I am ROOTED!!!!! :D:D:D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
man I luckily did this on my windows 7 pc at work and it got some of the drivers itself, other than that the only driver I installed myself was from pdanet. No htc. When my phone would boot in fastboot it would show "htc something, definitely not android 1.0. Now I tried it on my personal laptop which has had adb from my g1, has pda net, and htc sync.. and in fastboot it shows android 1.0. Sounds like that is the issue man. Try uninstalling everything or install adb fresh on another computer with no android drivers at all or anything.

Adb does work fine though from here once the phone is on. Also when the android 1.0 thing pops up it also promps me to install new hardware.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
steps 12 and 13

All i get is "E:failed to verufy whole-file signature

E:Signature verification failed

Instalation aborted"

Tried this 50 times now, no go????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Still no root. I had ADB working, then messed around with the drivers, and completely borked just the ADB driver. Just spent an hour fixing that, turned out I had a "Reboot now for new settings to take effect" looming in the background, and it finally got my ADB back... I am going to go back into a reboot/loop/recovery method to see if I get lucky.

To answer your question:

- Normally booted, PC shows my phone as a T-Mobile MyTouch 3g Slide (Which is promising as it only showed as an ADB Device until my last round or driver rodeo'ing)

- In fastboot/bootloader, it NOW shows as a Android ADB Interface. It use to show as a Android 1.0 like yours does now. I again, can only assume this is because of me messing around with the drivers for the last 3 hours.

As I type this, I am going to cmd prompt and gonna try loob just before entering recovery... crossing fingers...

AND... no luck on first try, so I am gonna keeping playing with my timing to see if I get lucky.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
fermunky keep at it, I think thats what mine said..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Now, my current process is, if the loop never shows a device, I have been simply stopping the loop, yanking the battery, booting back to fastboot, and then starting the loop again just before entering recovery...

Is that all I need to keep trying? I shouldn't be unplugging or anything else, right? I hate to sound like a broken record, it's just getting old. Can i just keep the loop running while I pull the battery and reboot?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Thats how I did it. I also would just pause the loop and then hit no after getting back into fast boot, so loop would start again. I tried it lots of way prob a total of 10 or 15 times. I would try unplugging the phone and plugging it back in, I also tried running loop after getting into recovery. What ended up working for me was the way he has it posted, have it looping before recovery.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sino8r:
thanks! At least I know were to start. I had my suspensions but I started removing virius programs and all extra usb drivers with no luck. will try and remove htc sync and sdk. I will try with just adb first... we'll see.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] marvinp:
I found this video on how they root the Droid Incredible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHj6J2uCKo&annotation_id=annotation_367508&feature=iv

See how easy it looks on there? I've spent so much time on mine that it's no where as easy as that.

EDIT: BTW, I still haven't gotten past the ADB step if anyone was wondering
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
steps 12 and 13????

i am sooo frustrated, should we push update.zip before tricking it to push update.zip? it gets half way everytime and fails, wtf??? Help please?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JHStarner:
I had this same issue. Re-apply the first two :

adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip

adb push slideroot.zip /sdcard

Then do the combo of running "Apply update.zip" and hitting enter for:

adb push update.zip /sdcard
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
dude have the command ready on the computer. Hit update.zip on your phone, you'll see the little loading bar come up, a little hard to see on the phone, it comes up almost immediately. As soon as you see it hit enter on your computer. That should do it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
Stilll wont work, it gets half way then fails.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
been at it for an hour, the green bar only goes a tiny tiny bit when the timing is wrong but when right it goes about half way then craps out??? Sure this update is signed right? Do i have the right update.zip?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
says failed to verify whole file signature.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
Something to try:

Install HTC Sync (if not installed)

Device Manager - Go to the Android device, right click, properties, driver, uninstall.

Device Manager - Install driver from HTC Sync install directory (may need to force the install of "T-Mobile MyTouch 3g Slide" driver).

Boot in to menu, start loop, select recovery, once recovery loads unplug USB and plug it back in.

If the device shows up and shows recovery you are good to go. I did it on two seperate devices and never got the offline thing, it just shows no devices until I unplugged and replugged the USB.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
are you sure your pushed ota.zip from tools to your sd and

NOT

update.zip from tools to sd card

step 9

adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Jerzeeloon:
how do I force install?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
positive, even retried that to make sure
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Maybe redownload the file and use the link in the op incase you used a mirror before. I know he first had the wrong files up earlier maybe you got a hold of w/e that was..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] krypto16:
Re: How-TO * Root The Slide * *6/15/2010*

I agree that mine never showed offline. I simply stopped the loop, unplugged the phone and plugged in again and it recognized it as recovery. This was after restarting the phone like 30 times to try and get it to recognize as offline.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
Update Driver - Browse for driver software - Let me pick from a list (this is the key) - unclick Show compatible hardware - Have Disk - Browse to the HTC Driver - Driver Files directory - select the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide.

These are Win7 x64 instructions, the menus on other versions of windows will vary slightly but its the same basic method.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stoneyjonez:
I waited all day to go home and root my phone... Finally root on my slide! Big thanks to anyone involved in rooting this thing.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mtjnkee:
Thank you, the link at the begining of the thread has the incorrect update.zip, the op had the right one, whew. that was the most frustrating thing ive done i a while, THANKS TO EVERYONE!!! especially Eugene373
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] testing135:
Write access

Anyone able to get write access to the system/app folder to be able to remove preinstalled apps? Just getting the Read-Only file system errors...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chrisinaz:
Wow. I thought my Cliq was easier to root than this. Maybe I'm just tired as hell today.

Anyways, I got it working after the 3rd try, and I do have root.

I want Wireless Tether! Will it work on this phone?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] shespon:
So if I root my phone, and I mess up in anyway in the process, will it be trash and I can't replace it at all? Is there any chance that I can screw up the whole phone and not be able to use it anymore and buy a new one? I really don't have the money for a whole new phone and rooting it would make me a happy camper but I just want to make sure I can still use it if anything bad happeneds. Thanks!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chrisinaz:
I messed up 3 or 4 times. All it did was not give me root. As far as I could tell, anyways. Just don't power off while in the middle of an update and you will probably be fine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] shespon:
What if my phone 'mysteriously' stops working after a week of root, will I be able to replace it?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Jerzeeloon:
agghhh,so close,got everything pushed got to the part where ihad to apply zip and hit enter on keyboard sig keeps failing,fml
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] goodwinm:
I was having problems under Windows 7 64 bit. I was having very slow transfer speeds for adb push, was the same no matter which usb port I used. Perhaps an issue with 64 bit usb drivers, haven't gotten it figured out, but I think this was causing me to fail the opportunity window in the race condition. I successfully rooted it on my laptop running vista 32 bit.

Those of you having problems in 64 bit windows, are you also seeing slow rates on adb push?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
few post up
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chrisinaz:
To clarify...

Make sure that when you run the loop, the device specifically says "Offline" and not "Recovery"

I thought mine was skipping and step and would be fine, but it won't work unless it specifically says "Offline"

For step 11, make sure it specifically says "adb push slideroot.zip /sdcard/slideroot.zip"

I'm betting the offline part is your problem. If you don't see the little E: /etc etc etc line at the bottom of the recovery screen, you did it wrong.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Update zip Coming SHortly!! Will Full Detail on the How-to

You need Root First & Flashed to the Eng-Release

Don't Working, the Update will bring you back up to the Current Build that was on the Phone when you bought it..

What's included?

Root

Superuser.apk

& Busybox

Woot for Root..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
There goes sleeping.. so its a new ROM with these things and everything else the same as stock? could busybox be the key to getting some of these root apps working?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Yes you need busybox for most app, or did at one time..
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Jerzeeloon:
Finnally got root woohoo.Big thanks to eugene373,ChiefzReloaded,and Wes for showing love to this device.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dsamuels39:
Still Ripping My Hair Out

I don't know if any of you head devs realize, but there are still a lot of people like me that cannot (I am surely no noob) get the STUPID device to show OFFLINE when running loop through abd. I have never been more frusterated with a situation. All of you have root and are installing the new update.zip while there are a bunch of us who cannot get past this one little step. I have done everything I can think of including trying just about every driver that works with the slide. PLEASE someone who is willing to take the time to figure out why this is happening PLEASE for the love of god help!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] marvinp:
How'd you get past the adb loop?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sino8r:
sadly same here. Ive been at this for 5 hrs now. Ive tried every driver including installing pdanet on both xp and win 7 no luck.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dominiiking:
Followed all steps still no root

everything went sucessfully every step in the video was followed and still no root at the end I dont understand what can possibly be wrong
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] motorjonny:
AGREED! Please help.. i have read everyones solution and tried every trick... i cannot get it to stay in offline loop... rebooted so many times, tried to trick it by resetting the driver and changeing it... ugh... HELP
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fetusbeats:
got past loop

i was having multiple issues (tried like 70 times) with adb loop on win7 64 bit, went to xp laptop and deleted all htc sync and mytouch drivers, then just used the pda net drivers. bam! first try.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] faylix:
There has been a new thread starting for getting past adb loop. I think all conversation on that specific topic should move there.

Don't worry guys, you'll get it.

- faylix / local
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Soltice:
Ugh. I'm stuck on the 12/13 steps.

I've done everything by the steps; Got offline, pushed the updates right, so forth and so on.

When it comes to hitting in the command sequence and applying sdcard:update.zip, I cannot for the life of me get past:

"-- Install from sdcard...

Finding Update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted."

The little bar gets about a 1/5th of the way in before that pops up.

What now? :(
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] OminousPrime:
Score! I haven't had any issue with ADB on the Slide.

Will test tomorrow and expecting great success!

EDIT: (correction) Actually, I had no ADB issue with my original black Slide.

Just got a red one and could not get it to recognize. Installed HTC Sync - problem solved.

http://www.htc.com/us/support/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-slide/downloads/
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
First of all THANK YOU for all the hard work and tutorial!!!

Followed all the steps and all went through properly (I think).

Pardon the NOOBNESS, I'm not getting any pop-up asking you to give permission.

Once I type su, it says permission denied.

Does that mean phone is still not ROOTED? Any advice?

Thanks in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
open up the superuser app on the phone. it took me a few tries before it came up asking for permission. Also you can d/l terminal on the phone then just type in su and hit enter to see if you have root or not
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
Tried Terminal Emulator and as soon as I typed su it said permission denied

I guess I'll try the procedure again, thanks for the reply.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kronickhigh:
did it... thanks so much guys : D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Z51:
i cant ger passed the signature verification failed. ive tried it about 100 times and nothing... I rooted my nexus one in 5 ****ing minutes. this phone really sucks when it comes to rooting.

what can I do? it recognizes it in recovery mode, and I successfully push all the commands, but the adb push update.zip /sdcard says it goes through, but it doesnt go into the clockwork recovery screen... big WTF!

what can I do to make it go to clockwork?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Try this Helpful Post!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Z51:
you know what I manually pushed the files to the root of my SD card, and it detected it and booted into clockwork mod. installed the slideroot.zip and rebooted. just installed superuser.apk and trying adb shell

adb shell success i got that $ symbol

did su coomand

su: permission denied :(

what went wrong?

EDIT: i did the whole process again, but installed slideroot.zip like 100 times to make sure lol and now I have root.... only took 12 hours....lol (serious)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tmobilewinguser:
i get this ./adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip

cannot stat 'ota.zip': No such file or directory

when trying to adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip im using mac:confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mesajoejoe:
This may sound stupid but..... does battery level have anything to do with people having issues with not being able to see it offline?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] texanman:
this blows.... been trying for 90minutes to get this to work... offline shows up a few times then nothing....gahhh
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Just Yourshadow:
is it just me or did anyone else lose their keyboard backlight after root?

*edit* my fault, never noticed the light sensor before
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Mine is working Perfect.. Should not effect the light sensor at all.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] thatguythatdid:
Congratulations all you slide owners.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] testing135:
bloatware

Anyone have success removing the bloatware from the device after root? I cannot seem to get write access to the system/app folder. Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] squidbutt:
mine still doesnt show up as offline
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sutiban:
You have to remove the crap from recovery mode for it to work correctly. :-) I did it on mine and it's running better.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] testing135:
So after I root, I reboot in to recovery mode and use the command prompt on the PC to uninstall the apps? OR do I have to boot into recovery, and go into the Clockwork Recovery to mount the system?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xr3al:
Ok I did everything as stated in the directions, but when I adb shell I get the $ and I type su I get C:\android\tools>adb shell

$ su

su

su: permission denied

$

What did I do wrong. I can see Superuser in the app drawer? I can load it, but it doesn't do anything. Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turboyo:
Want to post up a new thread how you did this?? I got back into clockwork recovery after rooting, mounted system .. then through adb tried to "rm" (that should be it right or should i have tried uninstall?) some of the apps but no go.. If you can post up the commands in another thread that wold be awesome.

try download terminal from the market and typing su and hit enter.. that should prompt you for superuser.. I know the adb gave me permission denied a few times till it finally asked me for permission on the phone.. Ive posted this like 3 times in this threead.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xr3al:
Did that, and a few other Root apps, no luck? Maybe I will try and redo the process again. Must have messed something up here.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] n7csi:
Step 1.

"Place the Contents of "Slide Root.zip" into your Android SDK Tools folder"

I am not sure sure where this folder is. Do I have to download the android SDK? any help would be nice... thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kcbboy:
ok so i'm finally getting the device to show up as offline but when i unplug the usb and plug it back in it won't show up as recovery. still says offline. what am i doing wrong here?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] RavenWulf:
I have unzipped the file into my androidsdk/tools folder and when I goto run and type "cmd" it brings up my command prompt but I cannot get it to goto C:\androidsdk\tools it keeps coming up with system cannot find specified path and when I try "cd.. C:\androidSDK\Tools" it says cd.. not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

am getting really frustrated and about to give up and just stick with stock phone, can't even get past step 2.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
on any and all windows machines, cd.. is the recognized command for changing directorys back one directory... i.e.

c:/android/roms/>cd..

c:/android/>cd..

c:/>cd androidsdk

c:/androidsdk>cd tools

c:/androidsdk/tools>

get it? every time you cd.. it goes back a directory, and then you can *c*hange *d*irectory to whatever folder you want, one at a time or a group by typing the c:/(insert destination here)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
if you're runnign the loop, stop the loop with ctrl+c press y, then unplug then plug back in.. if it doesnt recognize as recovery when the deviec is ACTUALYL IN RECOVERY, then you have a problem that is a bit deeper than rooting
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] s0xpan:
so my problem..... my drivers are weird(Win7)

its looked as a Portable Device rather than Recovery Mode....

help?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jp4756:
If you need some help add me on Gtalk jp4756@gmail.com i can help walk you through it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
everyone, we're holding a help line here:

http://tinychat.com/mytouchsliderootinghelp

come in and chat if you need help with rooting, or flashign the eng build or the new rom

Peace,

Drew
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jp4756:
Add me on gtalk jp4756@gmail.com i can help you get rooted and good to go!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] N1M1TZ:
Went through all the procedure again but still ended up with permission denied.

I know it's something on my side because the others we're able to do it and get root.

One thing I noticed every time I pushed the ota.zip; slideroot to the sdcard, I would get different values. I'm gonna try it on a different PC later on.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bhang:
Android 1.0 drivers yellow !

No matter what ive tried I cant get rid of that pesky triangle, I have installed pdanet, htc sync, and usb rev3 but when I try to update driver no matter which driver I point it at it "says no drivers found" if somebody has just the driver itself that I could browse to in "update drivers" it would be a great help, I think its a win7 thing everybody who seems to be in the same boat as me has win7...

Ill try on another machine that I have always used for adb, maybe ill have better luck.

bhang
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] squidbutt:
no matter what i do it wont show up as offline =[

help me someone!