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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
Is it really rooted?

I've installed two different overclocking tools (separately) and both have given me the same problem.

Overclock widget runs, but it only keeps my settings while the screen is on, when I turn off the screen and bring it back on, the CPU is noticeably slower/choppy and running at 246. In advanced settings, I choose to not have a different frequency when the screen is off... so I don't know why this happening.

Also I uninstalled Overclock widget and went with my previously purchased SetCPU app, and it does the same thing... will run at 480-600 as i've set it while the screen is on, but slows down to 246 between the screen going off and coming back on, never automatically adjusting back up to my freq request with it set to ondemand.

Any ideas?

Another question from a noob to rooting the mt3gs (i'm a proud owner and have had a rooted g1 since the day JF started releasing roms...but moved to Cynogen...digressing)... why can I not type in 'reboot' after typing in (and allowing) SU in my terminal app? I can see that I have root as noted by the #, and having just allowed it by the SuperUser app that's now installed. I get 'not permited!' (spelled wrong i know). Anyone else get this?

Shouldn't I have full root access, and be allowed to type in "reboot" as i did on the G1? Perhaps this oddity is part of the reason why all of my (root required) apps (minus adv task mgr) don't seem to work properly... Overclock, SetCPU, Wireless Tether. Not to knock the great devs that worked on this, but I just wonder is this truly fully rooted?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
My advice to you: uninstall any apps/widgets you're using to try and alter the clockspeed of this device.

You're not going to accomplish much until a custom kernel is released.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
very well. :-) I thought that it might be because I don't have a custom rom on it yet... but soon enough :-) Still would seem that I would be able to do a reboot... but I guess that's in the kernel. I see that Cyano is working on v6 now (FROYO!!!!) for the mt3gs. Apparently in Alpha, one of my co-workers who's got a DROID is running it nicely :-)

...off to searching the forums for how to manually set my clockspeed :-)

thanx!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] encrypti0n:
thanks a bunch
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
You need a new kernel to be able to overclock (which has not been created), which is why overclock and setcpu do not work, and you need the proper version of wireless tether, if you do a search, there is a thread on it.

Is it "fully rooted"? You can run commands as root (uid: 0), so yes, it is fully rooted.

I'm running a custom rom and the only reboot command I have is a link to toolbox, and my version of toolbox does not have reboot compiled in. That is why it doesn't work for me. Your reason may vary.

You should be able to type "shutdown" to power the phone off, or you can always use "adb reboot" instead of doing it from shell.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I think Better Terminal Emulator lets you create "shortcuts" to terminal commands. You might be able to create a shortcut to execute the reboot command.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
well, I've searched, and can't seem to pull up what I'm looking for. So how do I alter the clock speed without an app that does it?

some Terminal command line I run? or is this something I have to do via adb?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
You are not going to be able to change the clock speed with the current kernel, no matter what you do.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
What Falken said.

Unless the kernel has been configured to *support* overclocking, any app you install to accomplish such a task will be useless.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
I hear you but I disagree to an extent, because when I have SetCPU running (and the screen is on for that instance) the CPU will run at 600. When I turn off the screen and turn it back on it drops both min and max to 246, and the entire phone is noticeably slower / choppy, until I use the widget to set the CPU clock speed again. So as soon as I set it back to 600... it says it's successfully set the clock speed, and it runs WAY smoother. I'm not concerned with overclocking at the moment, I was wanting to underclock to save battery.

My problem now though is that I set CPU to 600 and then uninstalled the widget, hoping that it would leave it in that clockspeed state. But now when I turn on the phone I get the same choppy behavior. So now I have to go install SetCPU again and always launch it to set my cpu to min 480 max 600

:-(

Com'mon Cyanogen!!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
FIXED!!!!! SWEET!!!!

Within SetCPU they have a feature for HTC Sense devices that's in Beta... 'PerfLock Disabler'

I set it, and now I'm golden!!! Stays at the frequency I set!!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I still suggest uninstalling any CPU-altering apps/widgets until a custom kernel is released...

...but your mileage may vary.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
noted :D

...so would it be safe to say that since the Moto DROID (not x) is getting Nexus One > 2.2 results or better on quadrant (when clocked to 1.1 ghz)... that us MT3GS users will get the same results when we throw 2.2 on this bad boy?! They're both equipped with the 600 MHz ARM CPU.

A buddy of mine is running the Droid on Cyano with the Alpha of 6 on it...and it's flying... i can see it's wings...and quadrant results :D

may i reiterate... Com'mon Cyanogen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
The Droid has a 550MHz chipset from Texas Instruments. The Slide has a 600 MHz chipset form Qualcomm. Entirely different hardware. I would expect that a safe overclock for the Slide will be around 800 MHz or so, but that remains to be seen.

I already get great performance out of my Slide running live wallpapers 24/7 -- I don't know how much overclocking is actually needed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] brixvibe:
how are you running live wallpapers? i thought this was not supported in this rom, since we have the same rom it was loaded with but with SU
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I'm running the SlideMeRoot5r1 rom which is -- for all intents and purposes -- a stock rom. The live wallpapers are activated by installing ADW.Launcher from the market which replaces the Sense UI, which is what actively prevents LWP from working.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mistajayz:
So i finally got my MT3G Slide rooted after trying for 3 weeks, but when i try to go into recovery it opens the stock image not ClockWorkMod. Also, some apps which require root say they cant get root access, yet others can. Did i do something wrong? Any help will be appreciated.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
If you read a little back you'll see that clockwork isn't supposed to stick. Still no spl access. As for some apps getting root just reboot and if that doesn't help its the app's root detection.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Stratis1978:
For those on Linux:

user@system$ poll() { while ((1)); do sudo ./tools/adb devices; if (adb devices | gawk '{ print $2 }' | grep device); then break; fi; done }
user@system$
user@system$ while ((1)); do if (adb devices | grep HT); then poll; adb reboot recovery; fi; done
user@system$

This will just check to see that the device has booted, begin checking for offline status, then put the phone into recovery mode (all in a loop).

I still haven't gotten a consistent offline status but this just requires I reboot the phone when recovery mode fails (less fiddling).

: )
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
I'm hoping someone might know what I am doing wrong. Trying to root mytouch slide and I have followed the directions as best as I could. Also tried the tutorial video that is out there. But I'm sure I am doing something wrong. And I tried searching this thread, but not sure how to put it when searching so having a hard time finding the answers. So here is hoping someone who can do this in their sleep can help!

OK I get up to where you do the "loop" part. But I get a pop up stating...

" There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive

\Device\Harddisk1\DR8 "

But the thing is that when still using ADB, and following to get it to see my phone. It does! Then when I go to push the OTA and slideroot. It says I don't have permission.

So any ideas what I did that screwed this up? :) Thanks for the help!

EDIT: OK it once pushed through the OTA and slideroot onto my SDcard. But When trying what to do to install them. It wouldn't work. I spent over an hour trying to get it to work. I tried to do it again and since then I have been unsuccessful. Rooting my G1 was never this hard or troublesome. Anyone close to yet to simplify it yet? I don't really care about flashing any ROMs yet. I just want to be able to tether via Wifi and all.

Chris
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] blaquerain79:
A2SD

Okay maybe I'm dummy here, but I rooted, got to clockwork recovery and everything. I already had an 8 gig memory card from my g1 that I wiped clean and partitioned as 32mb for the linux swap, 1 gig for ext 2, and the rest for fat 32, however my phone is not putting the apps on the sd, is there an option that I have to enable to do so or is it supposed to do it automatically when your sd is partitioned??? I had cyanogenmod on my g1 and I know you had to enable it in there, does this root method require the same thing?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Simply rooting the phone doesn't allow you to use ANY Apps2SD method. You must flash a rom that supports it. There are plenty to choose from -- check the Slide ROM Bible.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] amack10:
so i sucsesfully rooted and have su. i finally decided on a rom and am trying to get back into recovery. so when i get to the loop step were you run the loop comand in the cmd i keep getting stuck. i boot up using volume down and power and i highlight recovery hit loop then push recovery. it either says offline once then goes back to list of adb devices and shows nothing or just says list of adb devices and shows nothing. its a fresh phone never eng build or nething just rooted once and now cannot get past this loop step im really frustrated so any help would be awsome

edit: i figured it out u need to push recovery rite after you push loop. if u leave loop running for more than a few seconds before you push recovery it will not work.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] riverajuan:
I want to thank all of the people involved in the rooting process for this unit, wish I'm quiet sure wasn't an easy thing to do without the right coding.

I just wanted to comment on the process without any disrespect for the people involve, but up to this day I have not been able to root my unit base in the process which feels like your fishing for the right time to root. I rooted my EVO on day one without any problems and I must say that the directions were an easy process from beginning to end. I can't say the same for the Slide. The process is just to difficult and after reading this whole thread I know for sure that not every one here has luck with this process.

I am going to pass on this as much as I want to root my device looking forward to the tether app, but this is just to much of a hassle.

I guess I'll wait until either Froyo comes alone or wait until the next better device come alone and hope to be able to root it.

Sorry for my long comment, but I had enough of the frustration with the process and I know I gave it the best shot it just doesn't work for me this time.

Good luck to the others trying the same.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] amack10:
so i thot it was my timeing and i guess im wrong still cant getpast this freakin loop thing ive rooted once and now i can never get it to recognize my phone wwen i do this loop thing. loop then push recovery and no go. or it says off line for a second then back to list of adb devices and says nothing. the guy above me is rite. my g1 was a breeze to root this whole process to get to recovery is a hassle
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bgolden84:
just keep trying

i had worked on rooting this phone for hours and i do mean hours it was 13hrs befor i finialy got it all to come together its all about the timing if u get stuck where u cant get it to work stop walk away and try again later frustration only makes it that much harder ps its worth it so worth it just to be able to say u did it lol :D:D:D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
mytouch slide root

hello everyone. I have been reading posts day in and day out and I can never correctly root my "mytouch slide" can anyone please help me i dont know what i am doing wrong. I am 43 and Im not "phone smart" or computer smart so if you can please explain as if you were explaining to a 5 year old. thank you.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] amack10:
That's not really possible cuz this isn't something a 5 year old can do. The best help I can give you since your not to savy when it comes to computers and phones is make sure u read up as much as you can about rooting and roms and features in roms so u can choose the one for you. If words like ext, swap and apk make no sense to you do some reaserch before attempting this. Lear terminology and get familiar with things like adb. The directions on the first page can't be explained any better. Like the guy at the top of the page said if something doesn't work step back give urself some time and ull figure it out. I was stuck all day trying to get into recovery now its cake
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] falken98:
This then begs the question, why are you trying to root your phone?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bgolden84:
im sure if u ask he cant answer

there are to many people who are doing this just to do it if u dont know what you are doing you prob shouldnt be doing it there realy is no reason for the av user to try this until there is an easyer way to root u it will make u hate this device lol its a pain in the a$$ to get the timing right
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] cr3a41v3:
How I rooted with vanishing "offline device"

Hello I am new to this forum as far as posts go, I have been quietly watching from the sidelines waiting for a chance to help someone ^_^.

I had the exact same problem with the vanishing offline device (where it pops up then goes away and loops into nothingness). Here is how I fixed the issue:

1. After you type in the loop command don't go into recovery just yet...

2. Have your left/right hand on the keyboard ready to push ctl+c.

3. Go into recovery

4. As soon as you see your device pop up, Ctl+C immediately!!! (very important)

5. Now that the loop has stopped and your command prompt states device offline, unplug your usb cable from the phone and plug it back in.

6. Now in the command prompt type "adb devices" it should pop up that the device is in recovery.

7. Now you may continue on to step "adb update.zip /sdcard" and finally enjoy your rooted phone.

I truly hope this helps someone ^_^, I know it worked for my slide last night, the vanishing thing was really iritating me so I figured catch it before it vanishes and it worked great ^_^, Having issues getting Live Wallpaper to work though, everytime I select a Live Wallpaper it just goes back to the home screen and stays that same ugly a** bird from initial boot up. I tried DL'ing a live wallpaper from the market but still same thing :(

If anyone can help me that would be awesome ^_^.

Mad props to Eugene373 and Kingofyo1 ^_^
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chucky80:
It is only right!

First off, I would like to give a shout out to Eugene and kingofyo1 for this tutorial. I was mad a few days ago after spending countless hours and just could not root. Well, I finally was able to root two days ago and flashed the eng build as well as flash the updated radio. I also am running the legend to slide rom and yes it is almost like stock except faster and more fluid. For those having issues, youtube is your friend. I searched for the how to's on youtube and of course kingofyo1 made the videos which is great. For those that are getting issues with superuser denied in adb, the issue is this. redo steps 8-11, once your are in the clockwork recovery, then all you go to partitions and mount /system without this you will not have Su from $ to #. After mounted, then follow the rest of the tutorial to flash the slideroot.zip and you should be good to go. That is one part that is not stated in the tutorial. Thanks again devs.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
Well I got things working up to where you have to try to get it to install. But I can't get it to go through. It says int he instructions when the green bars appears. But I have tried it and it doesn't seem to work. Anyone know when I should hit enter on adb to push it through? I think this is the part that drives people a bit nuts.

OH! quick question, I noticed 2 different downloads files to root the slide. One has a slideroot file and one doesn't which version do I use? I am using the one from the main page of this thread.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nomadrider123:
You are correct thats whats drive ppl nuts.. All I can say is try right away if that doesnt work wait one second then two and three and so on. Seems like its different for everyone. Good luck and let us know.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] turbo23:
Same situation here, I easily rooted my G1 and tried all the flavors, no big deal. All I get when trying to apply update.zip is "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"

I have done this so many times it is burning me out. I have tried different MicroSD cards, drivers worked ok, puter sees it, scripts run, blah blah...

Don't have the kind of time this takes I guess. So far about 8 hours and counting. Might just wait till next Tmobile update rolls out, this is nuts.

Using Windows 7 x64, should I dust off the Ubuntu machine that sits quietly?

Later,

I feel your pain!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
OMG! I can't believe how stupid I am! I was putting in the wrong code!!! But I am now rooted! All I got to say is that just make sure you're reading thing correctly! LOL!

Now need to find which tether I can use!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
i have some knowledge about the phone. i did install adb and my sdk. when i press volume down+ power and the phone searches for an image it always says no image found. how do i fix that or is that suppose to happen? i need my phone rooted so i can use the wireless tethering.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
When it says it's searching for am image. You don't have to worry about that. Just continue following the directions where you input the command "loop" so the phone can be discovered. Just continue to follow these steps.

Step 5.

Once your loop is running in your prompt, select Recovery from the bootloader menu.

Step 6.

When recovery loads, you should Have an Offline Device. You can use ctrl+c to stop your script & see.

If this doesn't happen, Power Off and try again..

Step 7.

Un-plug your USB cable from the back of your phone & Plug it back in for it to Detect ADB Correctly!!! This is an important step. At this point you can adb devices to see if you can see your device and that it is in recovery mode.

Step 8.

Hit Volume Up + Power button to Bring up the Selectable Menu

Select Update.zip from the menu. (This will fail, but we already know that! Select it anyway).

Step 9.

adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip

Step 10.

This is Very important!! Have this Command " adb push update.zip /sdcard " ready in your prompt before applying update.zip again!!

step 11.

Hit run update.zip, as soon as you see a Little Bar appear under the text, push Enter to execute the command in your prompt (adb push update.zip /sdcard )

Step 12.

In successful, you should see Clockwork Recovery & you Now have Su & Superuser.apk Installed! You can Now Reboot Your Phone into the OS to verify.

If unsuccessful, repeat steps 11 & 12.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
omg i almost had it

i had done exactly as you said and i got it to clockwork recovery and then i went on install update.zip and whn i typed in the command prompt "adb install superuser.apk" i got this response " Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]

any suggestions??? i though that as soon as u get to the clockwork screen u get root but i tried and app that needs root access and i get "app requires "su" to access the hardware! please make sure you have root access.

can any1 help im close to just giving up??????????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
If you got the Clockwork Recovery to come up. Then your rooted! Go to the Market and download Terminal Emulator from it. When done, type in " su "

if you are not showed that you don't have permission. Then you are rooted!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chucky80:
You missed something that was not stated. Get yourself back to clockwork recovery, first thing you should do when there is go down to partitions, hit power, then go to mount/system and hit power if not mounted. it should say unmount /systyem as well as 3-4 others below it should have the same. Once system is mounted, go back and install update.zip, choose zip, and find the slideroot.zip select it and hit power, once done, then go back and select reboot, then go to adb once the phone is rebooted and type adb install superuser.apk, then enter, (make sure the superuser.apk file is in the same C: adk folder that you extracted your ota, update and slideroot.zip files to first before adb installing superuser.apk). Once done, type adb shell, enter and you should get this $ symbol, then type su, enter and it should take you from $ to # which means you now have superuser permission. Each time you go into your clockwork recovery, you must go to partitions and mount system before you do anything else to avoid hiccups.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
i cant download "slideroot.zip" anywhere does any1 know where i can get it or is there anything else that can replace slideroot.zip. i downloaded simpleroot.zip.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Henchmin:
I've officially given up trying this. I don't even know how many hours I've wasted trying to root...but honestly I don't know why I was trying to in the first place anymore.

This phone is fast and stable, why mess with that. I dislike the genius button and favs, but I can live with it. I've being using adw launcher as a home screen replacment and its been great.

Point is, rooting this phone isn't as necessary as it was with the original mytouch/g1. Atleast with those you noticed a performance increase. The slide is plenty responsive as is.

Kudos to everyone who has helped and developed alternate ways to root but I think ill just stay stock until an easier method presents itself.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
it didnt let me.

i typed su and it said permision denied.

someone else told me that you need to do some other stuff when you get to the clockword recovery mode
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
Please someone help

Im in clockwork recovery...... Finalllyyyyyy after about 4 hours( not exagerating) can some1 guide me step by step pleaseee?????????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
OK, I think you didn't get into Clockwork. If you did you would have the superuser and all installed onto the phone. As others have said. Go to page 1. Follow the steps it says to do.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] nenonv:
hahahhahaa im rooooooooooooooooooooteddddddddd yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

i cant believe i did that. omfg i wana thank every1 that helped hahaha. who would think that such a NOOB would be able to root his phone. if i can do it any1 can do it.