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[Droid Eris Android Development] Ndaoud360:
Originally Posted by Jp50 View Post

i'm getting stuck here:

it loops on "list of devices attached".

is the "HTxxxxxxxx recovery" supposed to come up right away or should i let it run for a bit?

You are not doing anything wrong. Note the part of the instructions I highlight below:

32. On command prompt in the loop.bat cmd prompt if it works it should display

The trouble you are having is the same trouble that 98% of the folks that try it are having - the "if it works" part. It does work - but not very often.

so does that mean i cant root or is it a micro sd problem or what cause i want to root.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
Yeah I've been at it all night and no luck yet. Gonna get some rest and try again in the AM.

The process hasn't been Perfected yet so at best it is hit or miss. Patience we will get an easy root method soon.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
It means that nobody has really nailed down what it takes to make it happen in a repeatable fashion. It might work for you and it might not.

It would be helpful to folks like you if the people who suceeded with it make a guestimate of the number of boot cycles they tried before they succeeded - then at least you might have an idea of how much work is involved (if you should turn out to be one of the lucky few).

It would be even more helpful if people who succeed install a rooted ROM, and then put the old recovery back on their phone and continue to test their procedures - and report what kind of success rates they are achieving (number of appearances of adb connections / total number of boot cycles attempted) - then there would be some way to compare the merits of different approaches.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] jonathanphx1:
I have been following the this thread was lucky to already have been rooted (s-off).

Just a thought, I don't know how plentiful older computers are in the forum but what about using a computer that has USB 1.0 instead of 2.0 or 3.0.

Just throwing out ideas into the mix. Any opinions if this would make a diffrence.
[Droid Eris Android Development] chilangoblanco:
Hey guys,

I'm stoked for this! Been waiting a long time. I have just run into one problem though. I have Windows 7, so maybe that's why I'm seeing this difference. That is if you did this on any earlier version of Windows. But when I try to update the driver on step 15, I am not able to see the modified .inf file. It is not available to select. I have tried to select just the usb_driver folder, assuming it will find the .inf file in there, but when I do this it says that Windows has decided that the device has the best driver software on it already. I'm so glad Windows decided that for me haha. Anyone else run into this problem? This is the only thing that is holding me up so far.

Thanks!

EDIT: Actually, I just needed to read a little more. I found the solution on page 3 of this thread. I will give it a try and see if that works.

EDIT: Well...putting it into HTC Sync mode didn't work. It still cannot find the .inf file and says it has the best driver software :( Any help??
[Droid Eris Android Development] nindoja:
I don't think this will matter since we are trying to exploit a race condition that occurs on the phone, not on the computer or over the USB connection.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Dc_striker:
It's all about timing
[Droid Eris Android Development] twixxy010:
Is it possible to use a 1gb microSD card instead of 2gb or is 1gb not enough?
[Droid Eris Android Development] hoovnick:
Ok, I've got everything ready to try this, but when I plug in my phone for the first time, when the phone is on, it doesn't even show up in device manager as a device. Any ideas?

Windows XP sp3
[Droid Eris Android Development] vonkannick:
I tried last night and step 25 it told me I already had the most current driver. I am using a SanDisk 1G (unknown class) card. Many (20+) tries and no 'recovery' message. Just the red ! on my phone. Will keep trying today but really expect no success.

(leak V3)
[Droid Eris Android Development] homaygfresh2000:
Well, broke down and went and got the PNY card from wal-mart this morning. Still no luck after about 40+ tries with the correct card and following the instructions to the T. Time for a break, my fingers hurt....
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
So, i was just doing some thinking, here's what I'd like to do, I think that I'd like to test the repeatability of this process a 3rd time, meaning unroot, flash RUU and start over. I'm in the process of setting up a video/broadcast sort of method to document the process in video. They are going to record the session while I work through this very slowly and very descriptively.

If this is successful, I would be willing to unroot a 4th time and try other methods, like cutting out non-essential steps, test other SD cards, other OSs and stuff like that.

Yes, I am crazy. Yes, I want this to be air tight.
[Droid Eris Android Development] thewanton:
I'd really like to try this, but I can't access the modded .ini file, because the link leads to 'multiupload' which just directs me to some random site. :/
[Droid Eris Android Development] ericFuels999:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-incredible-hacks/51414-trick-rooting-incredible.html

On a forum post about rooting the Incredible, it seems the successful person also got the phone to be recognized as an ADB Android Interface while in recovery mode.

Right now, my phone is displayed only as a USB mass storage device when in recovery using win7 x64. Every time I uninstall the driver and re-plug in the phone to install the .inf file, it automatically installs the mass storage driver again and tells me I have the latest driver when trying to "update" the driver with .inf file.

Could this have something to do with this method's volatility?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
finally got it to recognize the device in recovery 4th woot!!

now to the next step

72 hours of testing

just want to note i actually hit the card in earlier then expected it was 2- 2 1/2 seconds
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
If you are doing battery pulls, the main (phone) OS never even comes alive, so it is hard to imagine that it has any bearing on the method at all. So, you shouldn't need to fully unroot - just flash the recovery image from the V3 leak ("flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img") while booted into the rooted OS on the phone.

If you can't repeat the hack, no worries, just flash Amon_RA back in place the same way.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
great! your one step closer than i am. i am going to try again today.

i kept getting stuck at this point. let us know if you get to the next level.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Realm:
Was anyone successful at this?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
adb push update.zip /sdcard

keeps telling me cant verify

maybe im not getting the green bar timing correct
[Droid Eris Android Development] lord194409:
i don't know if this is important or not, but when i start loop, it freezes for a while then starts a daemon. Then when i go to device manager i have two adb process going.
[Droid Eris Android Development] SiL3nTKiLL:
cool tutorial!
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
If the phone only brings up the adb interface rarely, why would you expect to see it show up on the PC every time you boot into recovery? If you see it, you've won the race.
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
:( yeah no matter what i do same error that it cant pass signature check

i still find my phone with adb devies
[Droid Eris Android Development] devlp1213:
alright will i'm giving this a break for a day or so 5 days later and now i got a new card i wont use i'm done for a bit 6 ppl go it and i'm even using a stop watch to get the timing perfect so idk i give atm
[Droid Eris Android Development] Hairston:
I just posted the compiled method I used to achieve root over on the other thread. Not sure why we need two threads.
[Droid Eris Android Development] chilangoblanco:
OK...so I found out what I needed to do to find the .inf file to try to update the driver, but now it is saying that "The folder doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows 32-bit systems" when I select the file.

I am running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit version. Is anyone else seeing this?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
well i had to leave for work

so i had to take my phone off recovery

72 hours it took but didnt have luck till this detailed method

and only took 3 tries

now can someone explain the push update.zip to me

keeps telling me signature failed

am i suppose to be catching it in a loop or be doing something different

i see the bar on the screen

seems like it stalls then just gives me signature fails

do i just keep trying?

will post back my results later tonight

BTW I am using the same pny 2 gig card same package

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/PNY+-+2...1&skuId=8351623&st=sd card&contract_desc=null
[Droid Eris Android Development] Jp50:
hoping this could eventually lead to the way to a simple 3 click method you see for Moto Droids etc.

i'm sure there is enough people judging from both threads that would benefit and or be willing to donate to the dev who cracks this and puts together a simple fool proof method.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sjflowerhorn:
just checkin on the success rate. Not too sound gloomy(or say i doubt the method or devs who have figured this out) but it almost seems like someone is just dangling a cupcake above of a group of short fat kids. (160% sarcasm-40% half serious lolz)

EDIT: just read the other thread and i saw 7 xda members are already confirmed s-on with root attained. looks like these short fatties are gonna get to eat there cupcake afterall!!!! so be patient while the devs here break the method down to a science. And make as many attempts as possible, and please DO NOT FORGET TO POST YOUR RESULTS and EXACT method, and any energy drinks that may have fueled your victory.

I really hope you guys can get this figured out! Last night i almost flashed the .ruu and tried myself but just to think about being stuck with verizon bloated eclair . . . AGAIN just completely turns me off to the idea and having rooted s-on isn't that important(or different) that i know of yet. But would be cool to know if my phone breaks and i have to replace with another eris that no matter what root can be attained. So krtek and tereg, many blessings. Good luck with nailing the method and thank you guys for taking the time out even after the device was unlisted by the carrier. (100% honesty)
[Droid Eris Android Development] kkpsichologist:
I, as well as a couple other people are having the same problem. I have tried to tease our any thing that could help but to no avail.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ncwildcat:
Thank you very much for all of your work. Don't worry about those complaining, many of us are thankful. I don't post much in this forum, but try many things and read. Just wanted to put out a thanks!!!!!

Also, I am going to try today with a 2gb sd card. I have no idea what brand, it just says 2gm MicroSD SD-0026 Japan. Wish me luck!!
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Thats because you've been trying to install it on the wrong device.

Turn debug mode on RIGHT NOW, i dont care if you turned it on before, its probably off right now.

Then go back to device manager, and look at the top for "android phone" with a drop down of my htc, or something like that.

You are NOT trying to install the driver to the one labeled "Htc Android usb Device"

I dont know why everyone gets confused there, but ive told that to about 50 trillion people in IRC and it worked for them. I really wish captain would add that FAQ already...
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
False. I am having the same problem and I'm pretty sure we're all talking about step 25 of the tutorial where we're in Fastboot USB. Can't turn on USB Debugging there. There is no new device, there is no Android phone listed.

Only:

Android USB Devices>My HTC

I believe this step is why so many people, including myself, are failing.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
I think that having just My HTC for that step is fine
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Thanks, we are close and this is still very experimental, we hope you can wait a little for us to sort things out, thanks!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
if this is where your stuck then you installed drivers wrong. from fastboot you should be able to install drivers for the My htc under android phone. if you cant restart from ground 1
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
Nah, tried several times to install the driver and I get the "The folder doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows 32-bit systems" message. Seems to be a common problem. I didn't have any problems installing the driver the first time, when the phone was booted up and in USB debugging mode.
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
There is no Android Phone listed when in fastboot, that's the problem!
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
can you take a look at what i posted

i got it into recovery having a problem with update.zip

do i just keep trying to push

tells me signature failed over and over
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
from this step you install the driver to the inf file.....click install from disk and go to that modded inf file
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
How do you install a driver TO an inf file? I thought that was the driver??? What I'm doing is right clicking on "my HTC", "update driver software", "browse my computer for driver software", "let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer", "have disk", then I navigate to the modded .inf file and get the error message posted above.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Guys from what I heard in the IRC last night if your phone says HTC bootloader or My HTC in fastboot mode you should be good
[Droid Eris Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Everyone just hold on, we are making the video right now
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sjflowerhorn:
I am rooted but to flash the ruu and re root with s-on would still be fun =) i am waiting very patiently for a solid walkthrough however. . . GL&GB.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ncwildcat:
Win7 x64 problem - need help:

OK. SO I get "Android USB composite interface" in device manager, but can't see the phone at all in fastboot USB. Tried to install new driver, but it looks like it is just reinstalling the original driver. Also, I am not seeing MY HTC or anything below Android USB composite interface. Any help with this is much appreciated

EDIT: Got it finally (only took 2 hours)

unchecked compatible devices and forced "android USB composite interface" to "HTC Bootloader". updated driver. Then went into fastboot, it showed up as HTC Bootloader, updated again, now shows HTC Bootloader interface.

Now on with the process...
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
I have confirmed that my driver problem was a windows 7 problem. No matter what I did I couldn't get my device to show up as "Android Phone" in the device manager in hboot. Just installed XP Pro SP3 and it works fine, first try and I did nothing different.

Now... to get this damn SD card thing to work :lol:

I've devoted almost 2 full days to this :( my wife is getting pissed!
[Droid Eris Android Development] ncwildcat:
Try what I did above - I am in hboot now and phone shows up in device manager
[Droid Eris Android Development] joebob213:
Nah, I'll stick with XP.
[EVO 4G General] drunknbass:
how do you know if you have the sd card fix? is there something you can query in adb or terminal that would signify this patch has been applied? because i still have the sd card issues and use a rom i thought packaged the fix in it.
[EVO 4G General] Jykinturah:
Try copying something to the card by adb push, or try copying something from the card to the system.

Maybe put some text file on it and try a:

adb shell cat /sdcard/sometxt.txt > /data/sometxt.txt

If it succeeds, you should be good. Just remove the text file by:

adb shell rm /data/sometxt.txt

You could really do this with any file.

EDIT: Also, just check in Phone Info and make sure you are at .6
[EVO 4G General] drunknbass:
firmware version: 2.1 update1

baseband version: 1.39.00.04.26

kernel version: 2.6.29-a2443432 htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

build number 1.32.651.6 cl171253 release-keys

software number: 1.32.651.6

pri version: 1.40_003

i can adb push and verify the files are there and everything seems normal except the fact i have to reboot my phone 10+ times a day because the sdcard becomes unresponsive.. really dont want to have to return the phone over this because im not too happy with sprint service (new sprint customer, coming from verizon) and it might push me over the edge. :/
[EVO 4G General] Jykinturah:
Weird, I am stumped. Try formatting your SD card directly (not through the phone), making sure you back up the files on your SD to your computer.

Maybe your SD is just glitchy, or maybe your phone is defective. I hope it's the SD not the phone.

EDIT: You could always try a NAND backup-wipe data, cache, dalvik-NAND restore, too.
[EVO 4G General] drunknbass:
ok, i wasnt really sure what the fix was or how it worked which is why i asked.

i formatted my card so i guess ill see if it keeps happening
[EVO 4G General] stratman71:
Good luck, had the same problems even with the OTA update until I swapped SD cards the the 8gb one from my touch pro2. Havent had an error or the card unmount itself since.
[EVO 4G General] martouf13:
I had an issue with mine untill I took it out and formated it on my computer. Since then ive only had it unmount once.
[EVO 4G General] drunknbass:
Well it was good for a day and it's doing it again. It's pretty obvious when it starts because the ovine starts running like total ****. I'm kind of tempted to go back to sprint and ask for a refund or asdcard replacement that isn't a pos. It's really bad because sometimes you can open the camera and snap a bunch of pics and then when you go to view them you get the sdcard unmounted error, do the reboot dance only to find the pictures missing.
[EVO 4G General] plmiller0905:
Mine was doing the same thing. I ended up just buying another Sd Card and I haven't had that problem since.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exile20:
Can anyone explain how Froyo 2.2 groups the calls in the call log? It doesnt group them by the person so what is the criteria?
[XPERIA X10 General] farhan032:
Hi Folks

How do we lookup a particular contact during an active call ? :confused: .. I tried pressesing the home button to get to the home screen & then pressed the Dialer icon to go to contacts...but it kept brining me back to the active call display..:(

I ended up having to end the acitve call , write down the contact that i needed to give to a buddy on a piece of paper & then call him back :o:o

Surely there must be a better way to do this ...
[XPERIA X10 General] j4mm3r:
Did you try clicking on the PhoneBook app? If you haven't created a short cut then you will find that under the Applications Drawer.
[XPERIA X10 General] farhan032:
Thanks for the reply!.. but i dont think there's a seperate Phonebook app..only the Dialler app which has the call log, phonebook etc
[XPERIA X10 General] j4mm3r:
Check again... carefully :D
[XPERIA X10 General] farhan032:
Oh yeah it was right here all the time...:p:p

Now i'm embarrassed, 3 months & I'm seeing it for the first time !! :o:o:o

Thanks mate, the phonebook does work with an active-callm, just tested it out .

Problemo solved !!
[XPERIA X10 General] fadimck:
another thing you can do, place a new call and you will enter the phonebook application easily (you are not forced to make the new call)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
So after searching, and doing a lot of research I still haven't found a decent auto tuning application. Were are the devs at?? Im willing to pay, and im sure there are plenty of more people who are. With the release of the "I am t-pain" app on the iphone, android hasn't been able to keep up. I love the **** out of my evo, but I feel like there should be more in the app market. Theres no good drum apps, no auto tune, no good keyboard/synth apps, no recording apps. Why are we slacking so hard here. What the hell do we need to do to get this going and produce apps people want that aren't pointless. Please, lets shed some light on this!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] newone757:
wow.......
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
Sorry to be so critical but as a musician on the go I would expect more from a "top of the notch phone"
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] nitty917:
wowwwwwwwwwwww
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
So you mean to tell me neither of you expect more out of the app store?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TA3ELS:
gStrings free on the Andriod Market
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] thegame3202:
Don't think he was talking about tuning a guitar... or g-strings....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] enragedpaza:
Have you tried Loops?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
I havent tried loops yet
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] enragedpaza:
Think it might be similar to what you want. Just try it out, but I may be way off on the suggestion....lol
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
Just tried it out, pretty cool app.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] uc4life:
So critical arent we...why so serious!...I feel my mans, I think that I am T. Pain app is fun especially for wasting time, it is not going to make or break how much I love my phone. But I would love to be able see more apps ported over to android from the iphone, such as that Bruce Lee game, totally rockin!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
First off, im not expecting my phone to be a mixer. Just looking for something to have fun with. Second, if your gonna be a douche bag and dis on my opinion and ideas stay out of my thread.

Thank you, even if they made an app that could port iphone apps that would be amazing. Or even make apps on the iphone compatible with bump, cause I noticed you cant put apps in bump on the iphone like you can with droid. Maybe something along these lines would be better and cut the hassle of making apps for different platforms, and at the same time everyone can be happy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] koolhand79:
Why waste your and everyone elses time with this type of stuff? Can the man ask a question? Man........

Anyway, I feel your pain. There really aren't any really nice music apps for android. I use beat maker on my ipod touch and its damn near a production center, unfortunately we just don't have the developer support. Not sure w are gonna get any support any time soon. They can't even pay developers to jump ship and develop for android
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sloth3:
Hahaha I love all the hate I'm getting for saying something I would like to see. Feels like I'm back in high school again with all the little immature kids.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] 702DROID:
check out ULOOPS and SIXTEEN BARS
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] intervigil:
As someone who's actually tried to get something like I Am T-Pain working on Android, I can tell you the reason you don't see more music apps like the ones Smule does for iPhone is due to the relative lack of any sort of low latency audio API in Android. See here for more information: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] newone757:
I just found it amazing you said Android been behind the curve ever since the t pain app for iPhone, as if that's THE app that defines how good an OS is. Wow. Just as you said its a time waster, cool, but ultimately useless, and therefore I'm sure its not a priority right now.

Would be fun to play with though, all I have is my 1g ipod touch so I never got to mess around with it. Just not somethin I'm hurting for
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TheBiles:
Why so much hate in this topic? The guy is looking for a neat app on the apps discussion board. Big ****ing deal. If you don't like it, then don't even post and save everyone else the time of finding out what a baby you are.

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