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[Droid Eris Android Development] thewanton:
Been here since day one. Nothing. :/ Honestly, I had root 1.47 OTA when I first started (and I'm not blaming anyone but myself) and flashed over it with the RUU without knowing that I could have rooted it earlier. Now that I'm on 1.49 and depressed and disapointed that I seem to be screwed, IDK what to do. I give up for the time being. Nothing I can do until a more reliable method is released.
[Droid Eris Android Development] sydtrakked:
for some reason (after failing repeatedly) now "Android System 2.1" is showing up in my 'Uninstaller' App... Anyone know why and what could possibly happen if it were to be uninstalled?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Burgers:
Nothing for me again last night.. tried about ~40x with the SD card pop.. Also tried to pop out and pop back in while at the /!\ screen.. going to check out that youtube video when i get out of work and try again, thanks for that..

I feel so bad for my gf's eris.. ripping its battery out every minute and banging it with an SD card like 1000x... poor phone has been used and abused, battered and bruised.. lol

Side note: while i was attempting this last night, my Droid's battery got low so i plugged it into the my other USB port.. when i ran loop.bat and it started showing a device.. i freaked out.. then realized it was my droid... that's about when i stopped for the night..:rolleyes:
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
I'm hoping that I get the phone that was mailed to me today. It was mailed to me via USPS on Monday, so it might come in tomorrow. In either case, I will notify you when I do, and I will notify you when and where I will be broadcasting this root attempt. I will also be screen recording the session, and if I am successful, I will definitely edit and upload a video. Anyone else that wants to go to the broadcast of course can record the session for themselves.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Zalatorisaurus:
It showed up in sense. I just can't get the timing down for it to show up in hboot and then recovery mode.
[Droid Eris Android Development] vandykky:
Got root on my wifes eris. Used a 2gb pny card (not the one listed) I didn't count but I waited to click three card in until a moment after the first usb notification sound, clicked it out when it made the disconnect sound, then back in the moment the second disconnect sound happened. That is pretty much how is got my DInc to root. Let me know if you have any other questions.
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
adb will not recognize the device when you are in hboot
[Droid Eris Android Development] n8thegr8:
I'm formatting the 16gb SD card from my droid to try out with my wife's phone, I'll report back with results when it finishes formatting...
[Droid Eris Android Development] char561:
Good luck with that theory and please let us know how it goes
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Yeah, agreed with char561, if this works pm me and ill add it to the tutorial
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Um yeah what about the guide's step 25 that says that the phone needs to be turned on, and then it says you need to turn on the phone in step 26. Does that make sense? How do you get it off when it's in bootloader mode, do you need to pull the battery first or what, I'm confused. Thanks, just wanted to clear that up.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
editing it now, sorry for the confusion
[Droid Eris Android Development] homewmt:
Just like to add on windows 7 64 bit in device manager I had under device manager "HTC Android Phone USB Device" and when I tried modded inf as a driver for that it did not work, but further down was a device called "ADB" with a ? next to it. I installed the modded inf file (Didn't select device type,just hit next) and it worked and got the phone listed as "Android Composite ADB Interface".
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
the HTC Android Phone USB Device under device drive will ALWAYS be there jus like it will also be under the portable device section mounted as whatever drive it defaults to(my default usb drive is D: so it shows up as tht) the ADB? was the correct one u was looking for :)
[Droid Eris Android Development] n8thegr8:
ugh...doesn't look like my 16gb is working either...
[Droid Eris Android Development] tkryan:
I am having a problem updating driver. I get The specific location does not contain information about your hardware.
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Yea if I ever get it working I"ll report my success on this thread.

Thanks for the great guide!!! If it works, I'll buy you a virtual......well......Ear (not to be confused with that 4-letter b**r). Yeah, for listening to me with all my inane comments on the other Root Eris 2.1 thread too for any others from the other thread!

Enjoy your phone root and day

Tom
[Droid Eris Android Development] char561:
I would prefer the b**r but I will take what I can get :P

on a more serious note, good luck getting it to work!
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
if u look on page 3 i made a post about adding some stuff to the modded.inf file follow that and i'm about 99% sure it will work then
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
I edited the inf file after you posted that
[Droid Eris Android Development] char561:
I think captain changed the modded .inf file here to reflect what you had to say though i could be wrong
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Yup I actually just re-edited it, forgot to add the x64 entry, it should work now, sorry for the problems!
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
oooo :) there is a chance he might of downloaded it before the change too so if he did thats where it is :p and so far still no success... might have to go back to walmart and buy tht 2gb card =P
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Yeah i think you need that specific card
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
welllll off to walmart be back soon xD
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Haha okay goodluck!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sirkaik72:
.inf file

I am unable to select the .inf file to install the driver in windows 7 with the phone connected as sync. Anybody know what I might be doing wrong?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Zalatorisaurus:
It says to have the phone in recovery before you put the sdcard back in though. Did I read it wrong? Its step 9-10.
[Droid Eris Android Development] powERIS:
New trick to try

Thanks to everyone for working hard and providing useful information even after succeeding. I saw this post by ghostrida in the DInc forum, and thought it might be useful in our process:

"So I had been reading around and got to thinking about what people were saying about the time it takes the phone to access the card is that "window" for using @unrevoked adb race root method.

So what I did was format my SD card in OS X as HFS+ Journaled so the phone would not be able to read this format and used the loop method after rebooting in bootloader, and it worked first time, no timing trick or anything just looping. Then i swapped out the SD card with a FAT32 @ the triangle screen and continued.

This was the same card I had tried endless amounts of times using many of the timing methods and loop methods.

I am asking if someone can verify this for me as a proven method. Thanks."

I have formatted the PNY Nat Geo card as described by ghostrida, but have not quite figured out the rest of the process as described by the tutorial because I'm not experienced with any of this. Hopefully, someone else with more capability will be able to test this completely. Maybe it will remove some of the unknowns with regard to timing. Hope it helps!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Zalatorisaurus:
You're fine. The disconnect sound is the high tone then the low tone. The connect sound is the low tone then the high tone. You didn't get two disconnect and two connect sounds. Windows is just weird like that.
[Droid Eris Android Development] xnatex21:
This would be golden!! Thanks for the note!
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
Any way to format a SD card as HFS+ under Windows 7?
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
I think you're reading it correctly.

Basically it's going to go like this:

You have the card out while you're in hboot

You will see that adb doesn't recognize the device

You press Vol Up and start counting while it's making it's way to recovery

After you finish counting, you push the card back into the phone
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
I know that when I was testing this, the spacing between the first BEEP boop, boop BEEP varied from test to test. Sometimes it would be one right after the other. Sometimes I'd hear BEEP boop, and then maybe 2 or 3 seconds later boop BEEP.

I think what I'm going to do regardless of if I get the phone mailed to me today or not is re-record the sound file in a more universal format, and just get to the counting part.

Also, when I do get the phone and I start to do more extensive testing on it, one of the things I'm going to pay more attention to is when I actually press the card in relative to the sounds Windows is making, and then try to find some sort of pattern with the successes (assuming that I do get those successes), because now I'm starting to second guess what it was that I heard.

If worse comes to worse, I am still willing to either unroot and reroot my own phone if it calls for it, or flash a leaked recovery and hold root as described by bftb0.

Edit: I'll know more about what I need to do depending on how successful or not I am rooting the phone that is sent to me.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Zalatorisaurus:
I do that, but it still doesn't recognize it in recovery. Is it supposed to?
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
This is the part that has been most inconsistent with this method. It has a very low or non-existent percentage success rate for a lot of people, and other people have gotten it to work in a few attempts. It is not guaranteed to work, but it has worked.

The million dollar question is what is that "thing" that is allowing it to work or why is it working for some and not for others? That's what we're all trying to test.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Zalatorisaurus:
Thanks. That's what I was thinking. I'll keep trying till I get it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ForwardTwo:
WOW! That's genius! I think the whole time, the reason the cheap 2 gig one worked, was because it was SLOW! The thing was, once you plugged it in, for the time it took ADB to recognize the device, the memory card was booting up AFTER ADB recognized it, so it worked. With everyone else, the card would get recognized beforehand, and ADB would not recognize the device.

Awesome, I can't wait to try this out.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
I just started looking for the same. Might grab a co-workers mac and try to format it that way, but there should be some software out there somewhere.
[Droid Eris Android Development] myron317:
I grabbed transmac as well as Paragon Partition Manager 10 for my Windows 7 (32-bit) computer. Transmac will format the drive in HFS+, but the method didn't work for me. I've been following this since DC, and still have had no success. Is there a particular change in procedure that was followed when performing the root with the HFS+ formatted SD card? Or is there another program that someone has tried that was more successful?

I am really digging the constant updates and the collaboration on this!
[Droid Eris Android Development] graphitedv:
@tereg & Captainkrtek, I was able to root another one. My wife's Eris was OTA 2.1 WITH the most recent update (the 12.8mb one). I was able to root using a Mac running 10.5.8 and the 2GB PNY card. Second try, but I think the first fail was due to my boneheadedness.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=714224
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
I've tried MacDisk and TransMac but neither of them have been able to format the SD card as HFS+. Let us know if you find anything that works.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
Transmac didnt work for me. When it attempts it just says it failed to do it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
That's what it says for me was well, I'm trying the NTFS 64KB Allocation unit method now to see if that does the trick.
[Droid Eris Android Development] homaygfresh2000:
Let us know how it goes. I am going to try it on lunch....
[Droid Eris Android Development] piercedtiger:
I was just wondering myself if NTFS or something other than the "universal" FAT32 would work to slow it down by not being able to read it. I assume that's what's happening with the HFS formatted card: it detects the card, but can't read the file system.
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
No luck, same result as FAT32 4096

I've tried just about everything, I've tried FAT, FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, I've even tried erasing the partitions on the disk completely and using it with no filesystem. I just can't seem to get the timing figured out and I've been trying for days. I even bought the Nat Geo SD card from Best Buy and still can't get it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] xnatex21:
Well, tbh, bft0b0shfdhafdha or w/e his name is, said in this thread that the phone doesn't even look for the card until 7 seconds. That means it's after you would have gotten access anyway...
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
No luck for me either with the NTFS 64k either. I confirmed that we should leave the card in from start up till the system sees it as adb, then switch cards. No luck that way, or by using it with the pull out push back in with different card, same card, etc. Cant get it to work.

Oh and I have also waited 7-10 second, wait for all of the tones.
[Droid Eris Android Development] cham87:
Did it all.

Obviously a hoax.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
You have got to be kidding me
[Droid Eris Android Development] Dradien:
Obviously you need to learn how to troll better.
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
i did everything it said!

it didnt work :mad:

now i am going to create a name on the forums

and bad mouth it as my first post:cool:

im cool not

really you have how many pages of text you can read?

have you asked for help?

i know you havent read the whole first post cause you wouldnt of posted here if you did

hoax Deff! i mean how many times do i have to get root on hboot 1.49.0000

i am count 5 that i have achieved it

dont post back unless you read through this whole post and you are getting stuck on a certain

step and need help

this isnt the place to complain
[Droid Eris Android Development] homaygfresh2000:
I bet this guy still thinks the world is flat too :rolleyes:
[Droid Eris Android Development] cham87:
Troll ..... what is that?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
explain~~~ ?
[Droid Eris Android Development] n2imagination:
Was wondering on the HFS issue if any of the Linux able formats would work, XFS, ReiserFS? My wife has the leaked phone at work so I can try until later tonight but just curious if anyone with a linux box has tried any of these formats.
[Droid Eris Android Development] cham87:
I bet you believe in religion :rolleyes:
[Droid Eris Android Development] xnatex21:
Running Win7 32 host, with XP sp3 guest on VMware.

When I try to flash RUU, I get this error:

I'm updating from:

Image - 2.26.605.2

To:

Image - 2.36.605.1

It goes -

Rebooting in bootloader

Waiting for bootloader

Erasing User data (11%)

Sending

Updating Signature

Updating Hboot (and a couple of things to fast to read)

Waiting for bootloader...

But then I get the message Error 171 - USB Connector Error. Make sure the USB cable is connected.

Can anyone help please? :(

I uninstalled the drivers for My HTC, then plugged the phone back in and tried again. I just got Error [132] Signature error. The ROM utility cannot update your Android phone. Please get the correct ROM utility and try again.

Grr!
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Okay I'm a n00b to some of this stuff, have there been many bricks due to fails or is it just working? Or is there all sorts of luck with it? I really want to root... or go to 2.2 ASAP... or make a trade with my eris to someone (still android)

Sorry i'm rambling. I'm just really excited to go through this guide after work and see what happens, but this is my only phone to my name currently so I can't really brick it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] carycooke:
OK im not doubting anyone really but i cannot get this myself from either a error that im doing or some circumstance that has not been identified yet

Ive been around rooting and hacking for awhile now so its not my first time around the block

but ive done the tutorial to a tee from a xpsp3 machine win7 ultimate 64 bit machine

did the timing part in everyway you can i even used the .wav file and also did a stopwatch from a half second to ten seconds

I popped it in and out tried that

got the exact card that is on this thread, tried Adata 16 gb class 6 tried transcend 8gb class 6 tried stock card

formatted in every way possible even did a mac os format with the hfs journaled

and still havent got it

OK enough about that What i am wondering is there anyone who can post a youtube video of the whole proccess because i didnt get to see the live feed and was just wondering why there hasnt been one posted yet WELL atleast one that doesnt look like its in a dungeon scene and then it looking like it was done on speed

Im talking about a full blown good lighted video tutorial with the entire process from point one to the end

Another thing and im just saying not discrediting anyone but I have seen no DEVS say much on this giving it credit

it seems that all these new JUNIOR MEMBERS of this site with only a few post are the ones getting it and not DEVS

OK so before people blow up dont im just wanting a VIDEO so i can gain faith again in this root exploit and keep trying
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Quit *****ing or get off the forums. If you cant provide anything productive towards getting this to work, then leave.

Does this method work? Yes. Does it work very often? No.

Anyways, I think we should compile a list of ways that are proven not to work, so people can stop coming to irc to suggest them.

1. mess with the ruu to flash the root image- error main version older.

2. Waiting for x amount of minutes while in recovery for adb to pop up- nothing, tested by lupus.

3. Using the adb command adb root-my-phone-PLEASE - unknown command.

4. using a program called "simpleROOT" doesnt work.

5. Unrevoked method - doesnt work.

6. Committing fraud and getting a replacement phone- useless, replacements have 1.49 now.

Any others i may have forgotten?

-----

Btw, for those who dont know, im hiroshika in irc.
[Droid Eris Android Development] mortymouse:
Is USB debugging switched on, on the device? May seem obvious but figured I would ask.
[Droid Eris Android Development] xnatex21:
Yes it was. Switch it off and the RUU doesn't even see the phone. But when I switched it off, Win7 showed a notification that the hardware was successfully installed. Dunno what that was about but I'm trying it again brute force style.

Thanks for trying to help though. :)
[Droid Eris Android Development] zerovertex:
When I have the /!\, I have an entry in Device Manager for Portable Devices > H:\ The details for that show Device Description = Android Phone.... Do I have a driver problem? Is this why I'm not getting it?
[Droid Eris Android Development] snyluc13:
wait a minute...the world isn't flat?!!?!? When this this happen?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
ummm

what does it say under android phone

if it has android phone adb composite or what ever

thats what mine says

then you should be in adb recovery

go to cmd and run a adb devices

edit

think i read that wrong

just screen shot it if you can
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
This is not a conspiracy forum

head over to abovetopsecret for that

stay on topic stop derailing thread

this is for help for rooting you eris only
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
What shows in device manager after your phone reboots and the RUU is performing the upgrade? The RUU usually installs its own drivers for your phone maybe they arent installing properly and thats why your having issues. When I run the RUU my phone shows up as "My HTC" under device manager.
[Droid Eris Android Development] snyluc13:
sorry, it was the smart a$$ in me,

ive tried numerous ways to get it to work with the stock card seems like it doesnt want to work for me, ive gotta get the 2gb card from best buy on payday, you guys are doing awesome work by the way, its been a long time coming
[Droid Eris Android Development] xnatex21:
When I plug the phone into the USB it shows as "My HTC" BUT when the RUU is at the 27% Waiting for bootloader, the phone is not listed in the device manager and the USB notification goes away. It's like the phone is disconnecting for some odd reason.
[Droid Eris Android Development] dawynkoop:
If you have any other card laying around you might want to try those before you purchase the one at Best Buy. After a couple of days of trying this with 3 other cards without success I went out and purchased the one from Best Buy, only to find out I'm not having any luck with it either.

I'm beginning to wonder how old the phones are that have successfully rooted using this method. I only purchased my eris maybe a month and a half ago. I am curious if maybe the newer Eris's have slightly different hardware that prevents this from working.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
we've seen guys with both old and recent phones unlocking so it may not be the age of the phone.

i chalk it up to some guys just nailed the timing and others either left out an important step or just have bad timing.

i'm gonna give it a few more days and see if one of these guys can develop a simpler method.
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
ppl please read more its been said several times that windows is always gonna see your phone under the portable devices and disk drives every time no matter what so if it shows up as H: or D: or whatever your default system drive for a usb drive is that is and will always be normal . so yes that will show up but if it doesn't read the android phone driver then restart OK
[Droid Eris Android Development] homaygfresh2000:
Okay, WTF?

I can't for the life of me get this to work on my phone but I just grabbed a coworkers eris, used my 2G PNY Nat Geo card, followed the initial tutorial and timing with the sound clip, and got it rooted 5th try.

Then, 5 minutes later, tried it again on my phone and did the EXACT same thing... still nothing! Seriously? :mad:

Well, anyway, put me down as a yes-this-works (just not on MY phone yet). Win 7 32bit, generic usb cable, followed OP tutorial.

-Allen
[Droid Eris Android Development] mam4983:
This is exactly my fear. It almost seems like some phones just work with it while others don't...no matter how good you are at the timing. It's similar to how some Nexus 1's require a small kernel while others don't and no one really knows why.
[Droid Eris Android Development] lostpilot28:
Very interesting. What's different about your phones? I'm willing to bet that there's something slightly different. Any chance the model numbers are different? Or the age of the phone (and the s/n shows it?)?

Or, maybe it has to do with the OS or revision level. Mine's not working either, so I'm grasping at straws!
[Droid Eris Android Development] homaygfresh2000:
Nothing, as far as I can tell. I got my eris back in March and he got is a couple weeks later (after playing with mine). We were both on RUU and I used the same pc for both attempts. Why it worked on his and not mine? I have no idea, but I'm about ready to throw this thing out the window....
[Droid Eris Android Development] sznaps:
I'm so with you on that...
[Droid Eris Android Development] carycooke:
hey homaygfresh2000 list the hardware info in the about phone section of your phone and your coworkers to see if there was a difference