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[Droid Eris Android Development] Wongidool:
Ok, this is exactly what happened to get it to pop up (i did lose it, but had i been prepared I feel I could have pushed the failed zip in time, correct me if I'm wrong).

I am using an old 1gig sd card, formated to fat32 allocation size 4096. As per DC's modified original post, I booted into HBoot with the sd card in. The second I saw white, I popped it out to prevent scanning. I then booted into recovery, counting off in my head to 8 and popped in the sd card, which was literally a second before I got the windows 7 sound that indicates a new drive has been detected (like when I plug in my thumb drive). Was watching my loop, nothing. Alt tabbed over to check the next step (repeat if necesary I found), did the Power + Vol UP to get the reboot option from recovery, and alt tabbed back to my CMD before pressing the power button to confirm. I looked up to see my device flashing by as offline, but it was too late for me to stop it and issue the push command.

Sorry, I didn't keep a log, if you tell me how I'll run one so I can post it if needed. Also, I would like to point out...I have NO IDEA how this happened, but it was there for a moment.

I'm trying to recreate it now, but to no avail as of yet. I think slotting the sd card in at the perfect time between the hboot and recovery could be extremely vital in this step.

Any thoughts? Did I help at all with this?
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
when this happens you have to unplug the usb cord and plug it back in
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
A testing log as in a pen and paper lol nothing fancy.

And ive tried that about ten times, using an old old class 2 1gb pny card, its not working. But thats great that we at least have some confirmation that its about precision timing!

I think what we need to make is a .bat file that does all the scripting and has an on screen prompt counting down to when we need to push to sd card in.

Though since nobody knows when exactly that is....
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
When i boot it into HBoot i pop out my card immediately but it still scans even with the card out. is that okay?

also i have two cards

the stock card...we should all know what that is..

and a 2gb Kingston. No class number.

any thoughts on which card would be better?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Whitepaint:
I have gotten this far as well using a 1 gig PNY class 4 SD card. I have managed on 2 different occasions to get my device to show up as offline in adb. Keep in mind I am already rooted and was testing this race root method buy flashing the OTA 2.1 stock recovery then moving through the steps as usual.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Wongidool:
D'oh! I wish I had known that before, oh well, now I know for when I get it (I'm effing determined now)

@bdt lol, I thought you meant like an event log or something =P
[Droid Eris Android Development] Wongidool:
Wait...DJ. Why do you have to unplug/replug? What does this do?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
It says to do that over on the page for rooting the my touch slide, apparently it gets it to connect to adb properly, which i assume means that it goes from showing offline to recovery.
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
lol this is correct
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
I really hope nobody ignores this post cuz it seems like thats all people do..

This is mainly thrown out to those got this to work.

out of curiosity, when you hear the computer beep saying that a device has been plugged in how many times do you hear this and which sounds in what order?

im on Windows 7 32bit.
[Droid Eris Android Development] tkryan:
help

what do i do if i cant get my phone to start. i keep getting the red triangle.
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
sounds like a recovery loop

it keeps happening to me

just go to reboot phone from recovery menu
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
volume up and power/end key then scroll to the reboot now on that menu with the volume keys and hit end. It should reboot into normal mode
[Droid Eris Android Development] HanSolo2012:
sometimes i hear 2 sometimes i hear 3

but same thing appears under disk drive

windows 7 64bit
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
So the computer is supposed to show a disk drive in explorer when this is working correctly?
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Oh hey guys i found this on a slide root thread.

If you wanna make the loop file easier on the eyes just modify the file to say

:a
adb devices | find "HT"
goto a

although the goto a part was my choice
[Droid Eris Android Development] jvward:
It always shows a disk drive in device manager once ur in the recovery menu. When you do it correctly it also show android phone with a sub entry of adb composite device.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
AHH okay thanks
[Droid Eris Android Development] lostpilot28:
Uhhh

OK, I'm sorry to ask this, but I'm not going to sift through 48 pages of this post, when what I"m looking for probably isn't even there. I have never rooted, but I've been waiting for someone to figure it out (I have 1.49 S-on). Now seems like a great time to join in and help.

So, here's my question...the original post doesn't describe EXACTLY what to do. Am I to assume that his instructions are complete?? Because they certainly seem to assume that people like me will know how to get started. I've been looking at the Rooting guide and ROM pages, etc all day and I can't figure out where to start. I've been following Ivan's "1.5 to 2.1root step-by-step guide" but I'm not sure if that applies here. I've downloaded the Android SDK, Java JDK, Ivan's latest ROM, etc...but I'm still a little lost.

I guess what I need to know is very specific step by step instructions for trying to root my phone. I've got a few different types of SD cards, and I'm a very capable IS/IT guy...but when it comes to knowing when I'm supposed to plug in the USB cable, and what commands to run, I'm clueless. Any help?

If anyone wants to contact me via e-mail, that'd be super. lostpilot28 at yahoo dot com. Or, maybe start a new thread with some very specific steps. Just a thought. I want to help!
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
There are no step by step instructions. It appears that everyone is getting it to run different ways. Although that would be nice...
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Okay so ive gotten it to show the eris as offline for litterally 2 seconds every time. But as much as ive tried thats not even enough to make it open up the menu and do anything with it... Is there any way we can open this window up?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
I dont think that guy fully understands that were all in the same boat hes in...
[Droid Eris Android Development] lostpilot28:
That guy is a typical doucher.

Thanks for the legit replies, though...Can I get at least some idea of how you guys are getting started? Maybe provide a link of a great starting place on what to do? If not, well then I guess I'll just let you guys pave the way and I'll root when you all nail it down. :rolleyes: Just thought I'd ask for some direction.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Sirkaik72:
Couple questions

I have given this several tries and I have a question. If I get the SD card out "in time" then in the time it takes to start the loop the phone runs the SD card load on the screen but if I skip the loop i can get into recovery before it "loads" the SD card that I pulled out. So should I get another person to start the loop so I can get into recovery immediately? That may sound ridiculous but I am trying to find the way that this will work. if I get it to show on the loop how quickly should everything else have to go? I want to be prepared for when we (speaking optimistically) can replicate recovery recognition.

Thanks
[Droid Eris Android Development] Dc_striker:
which method are you trying?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Im the doucher? Excuse me? Im not the one who walks in here saying hes too lazy to read through the rest of the posts! Had you done that you wouldve realized that NONE of us, outside of the two who were successful, know anything more than the first post. And any other little tidbits of information are scattered through those 48 posts you deem so unimportant for your glorious self to have to stoop down to read through.

If you want to start helping, then read through those 48 posts (skim, though, as some of them are just flaming and off topic, etc) and see if you can improve upon anyones ideas.

Basically what we know so far is:

1. modify inf file

2. leave drivers alone if you can get adb to run in normal mode

3. the time that you insert the sd card and possibly the speed of your sd card is important to this.

Basically thats all we know outside of what the first post says.

Hairston got it to work without the loop running, which is mainly because the loop doesnt really do anything other than tells you its there.

And also, dont expect us to be able to "nail it down", weve all been working hard trying to get this to work, and most of us are just normal people, nowhere near devs. If you want root, then help. Theres no chance of bricking your phone, because quite frankly, we havent been able to get far enough into it to where we could.

Sorry if that was a bit of a rant, welcome to the team i guess, just attacking people when you yourself are being too lazy to read through other peoples work to see if its possible is well... annoying.

Also, there is a search button. Just so you know...

EDIT:

im doing a sortof mod of yours and hairstons.

boot into hboot with sd card in, go into recovery, sd still in,

volume up and end to get to the menu, hit reboot now.

then after a few seconds on computer i do adb reboot recovery.

Then quickly take sd out, and insert right before that first "badump" sound.

I can pretty regularly get 6 iterations of the loop showing its offline. Quite annoying knowing your so close yet so far...

Any ideas? Ive tried nearly everything i can think of...
[Droid Eris Android Development] Dc_striker:
There is step by step instructions
[Droid Eris Android Development] dbnaruto:
Step 1

First off, after you install the Android SDK, open the android_winusb.inf in the "usb_driver" folder within the "Android-sdk-windows" folder. Edit the file (where it list Google NexusOne and Moto Sholes) and add:

; HTC Eris
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C98%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C98&MI_01

Be sure it looks similer to the other codes already listed and then save

that is the First step
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Yes but its based off luck
[Droid Eris Android Development] lostpilot28:
Whoa, easy there big fella. The doucher is stephen730...he was laughing at my post for some reason. Did you forget that YOU said "That guy must not realize we're all in the same boat"?? And I'm not "too lazy" to read through the posts, I just don't want to waste my time reading 800 posts about everyone asking the same thing as me. No harm, no foul. I think you misunderstood who I was referring to, even though I was replying to your post. Take a deep breath. ;)

Now then, dbnaruto's post (about 3 above this) is helpful. I am a noob with this stuff and don't know where to start. Thanks, dbnaruto for clarifying the first step. That's EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Now if I can figure out step 2. I really do want to get this thing going.
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Ok personally I feel dc_stryker or Nick7502 needs to make another video, they need to speak the actual step by step instructions that also shows all of us the method of how to root FIRST before anything else, because neither of the videos really shows us how on that, yea apparently the video assumes you know how to set up ADB for recovery on Eris, which for some of us is NOT so easy.

It's a little weird when you have to simply follow the dude's hand motions and button presses only, without someone telling you how to do each step as it goes. i.o.w, I can play by ear more than visuals.

:P
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
K this is getting off topic. Stop fighting like little *****es and get back to what were here to do
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
seconded!!! could you turn on all the lights and do it this time please?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
DC_striker,

I'll repeat my question:

Yesterday you were loading the (stock HTC) recovery back on to your phone to attempt to duplicate your initial results.

Have you duplicated your initial results even one more time?

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
It's okay if more videos aren't made, simply because I'm not really into this "rooting" effort that much anymore, because I have time doing other things. But anyone else who is still involved (most of you guys) can certainly try to "step up" to the plate and keep throwing in ideas. :D
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
How do you get that to happen? The repeatability part, I mean.

(Most useful post of the recent ones, BTW)

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
No its not ok if more videos aren't made.....thats how we are gonna learn how to do this. if your not into this rooting effort stop posting useless things and just READ the thread please.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
My bad, hope the rest of it helped though lol

Read my post a few back directed at striker. It works 8/10 times for me. But what ive noticed is that my old old sd card takes about 5 seconds for hboot to scan it, a huge bit slower than my 8gb which takes about half a second. So could that be partially responsible?

Also, ive tried some of the other ways that the incredible root thread suggests, and unfortunately, none of them work on the eris (No big surpise there, but just thought id add that in so we can mark that off the list)

EDIT:

Also, i think we need a video showing us the process of rooting it. If striker has successfully redone it by flashing the flashing the leaked recovery, (which he never said he did, i think) He could certainly film it for us and do it again. Maybe have a friend hold the camera or a tripod or something? Cant be too hard...
[Droid Eris Android Development] Dc_striker:
Not the one i posted up i got that to work multiple times
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Could you post up a video of you doing it as well as explaining the process to us while doing it? Basically walking us through it?
[Droid Eris Android Development] vinylfreak89:
this is a major shot in the dark (and im already rooted so can't test) but what about damaging the SD card? like either physically break a piece off (make sure you can still get it out) or just finding a way to damage the contacts... so it has a hard time reading... specifically contact 1,7,8 control the data bits (2 does as well but it also controls whether its detected or not). 7 and 8 are the two short pins next to the 1 long pin and 1 has two short pins then a long next to it and is obviously on the other side of the card. Note, I have no idea what shorting pins could do to possibly damage the SDCard slot... major try at your own risk and I'm not responsible.
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Yea I guess I'm being stupid now. Maybe I SHOULD stay involved in this effort, in fact, why not I will, at least by viewing the thread, but please, please don't say that my posts are "useless" thank you very much.

Now I'm not normally this way, only if someone has me be this way. Let's all just try to either 1. get along and work towards a solution, or 2. just work towards the solution itself. C'mon. Really! If noone wants to hear me, then agreed, I won't post anything more. I could do you guys a service by blocking my router's ability to go to xda-developers.com if you think that will be better thank you. :P
[Droid Eris Android Development] jamezelle:
tereg from irc.andirc.net got this working

i witnessed it! :D:D:D
[Droid Eris Android Development] firestrife23:
Try using unsupported format such as XFS, JFS or RasierFS on sd card.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Well, i sorta tested this but with little slivers of electrical tape over the pins. The card just didnt get read, simple as that.

You're not useless, we need everyone we can get to get this thing rooted.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
Does he have VIDEO!?
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
If you say it, I believe it, Jamezelle.

tereg's earlier post seems to show he is actually testing in a methodical fashion. That's really going to be the only way to improve the odds - the rest of this nonsense is just sheer madness.

bftb0

Edit I hope he posts some more - we need more doses of "here's how to be methodical" in here.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
I trust both of you, hopefully tereg has it all documented step by step so we can all see it...
[Droid Eris Android Development] HaRdC0r3:
Ok guys my other username on all the moto forums is saxadroid. I am currently at a matinee musical gig so ill be writting this on break.

My Laptop is a couple years old with win vista home or whatever the basic is. (Its really her laptop).

I always charge my phone fully before I mess with it. Put all my files in my tools folder and had cmd pointed at my sdk tools

Phone had debug checked

I used the 16 GB card that is in my moto droid but before using it I deleted everyithing. I didn't format it just made it empty.(its her phone and her sd card with her pictures and to even let me play with her phone I promised I wouldn't delete any of her stuff)

I started with the card out and I did not use loop(like the other guy lol something with an M I think)

I started in fast boot presing send and end together. With sd out.

Then pressed vol down for hboot

Then vol up for recovery

(Whole time I had usb plugged in)

The phone will wait for you to push in the sd before entering recovery. Ok this is where I did some messing with what was written in the steps in the op and the androspin thread. In androspin he says to unplug and plug it in usb to get your comp to see it. HERE IS WHAT I DID. I tried it with the usb plugged in then before I pressed up for recovery I unplugged it then counted a few seconds then pushed sd followed by usb. That's how I got it the first time. But after I got clockwork going and installed root.zip the next step says reboot phone and install superuser but I was thinking I could reboot from clockwork back to recovery where I ws gonna mount system and push su but after pressing reboot recovery in clockwork it went back to regular htc hboot so I pressud up and got 2e recovery(fml back to square one).

SECOND TRY. I had usb plugged in and pushed sd in the phone switched screens to recovery at that split second I unpluged and plugged in usb and pressed up and end for recovery options to appear on phone. The screen kinda paused and at the bottom said something bout recovery cache then the options for update.zip and clear data and factory reset on the 2e rrecovery. In that pause before showing options my device manager showed android device and then I continued with the steps.

Sorry I'm in intrmission writting from my droid
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
Really Shut the **** up about the name calling and get back to root!! we just found two more people who got it to work. im waiting for another post from either of them as to what exactly they did and instead i see this. you dont have to respond just get back to WORK....Please
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Ok I didn't do anything I said earlier forget all that actually, but yeah I will continue to contribute to the effort if people want me to. :D I guess you're right we need all the contributing dudes we can get, mainly for people trying to root Eris!

Oh and sorry for the dude who called my posts worthless or whatever, I didn't want to flame you OR anybody anyway so, um, yea. My apologies! I am more a helper now.

Plus, I hope one of those 1 to 3 click automatic rooting projects can be adopted for Eris, rather than just working for EVO, Hero and Incredible etc. Wow that would be neato wouldn't it. Imagine if leakers and OTA'ers could just load an app on their phones, do at least a couple of steps or one, and boom they're rooted. You know what, I feel a automatic method would be easier for all of us, and could be done I feel however. :P Just an idea on that one. Anyone with me on it come to think of it. I'm not trying to distract or deter you guys away from Manual method of rooting though, if that is what you might think here.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
when you get the time can you post EXACTLY what you did in order please? it would help us out a lot
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Will try to duplicate your results and report back in a few.

Thanks for reporting your success in such detail!

Unfortunately after 30 test ive had no success.
[Droid Eris Android Development] :
Yes on the latest method posted, I will try that too. This is important especially if it turns out to work for everyone.
[Droid Eris Android Development] dbnaruto:
Step 1, 2, 3 & 4

*note: I have not been able to root my phone, I am just trying to clarify what others are saying, if you belive that I typed something wrong, please let me know :p

Step 1

First off, after you install the Android SDK, open the android_winusb.inf in the "usb_driver" folder within the "Android-sdk-windows" folder. Edit the file (where it list Google NexusOne and Moto Sholes) and add:

; HTC Eris
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C98%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C98&MI_01

Be sure it looks similer to the other codes already listed and then save

Step 2

Now you need to Backup your SD Card and then format it (I do this with Windows native formater) and format with the name "sdcard" (<--- I think, but this may not be vital) and an allocation size of 4096 bytes

Step 3

Now on your PC start the "command prompt" by typing run into the start menu search bar and then typing "cmd" into the run's text field. Change the directory to that of your SDK tool folder (mine is C:\Users\*****\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools).

Step 4

Now we begin the recovery:

Turn your phone off, and be sure it is plugged into the computer. The SD Card is IN at this point! Then start the Recovery by holding The Power button and Vol. Down button. As soon as the screen comes on, pop the SD Card OUT before it can scan it. Now stat the loop.bat by typing "loop" into the Command Prompt.
[Droid Eris Android Development] zigzackattack:
Am I doing something wrong? It doesn't wait for me to put in the SD card. It goes to the robot guys for a few seconds and then the picture of the eris with an exclamation mark inscribed in a triangle.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bftb0:
Does anyone else observe the "phone waits for you to push in the SD" ??? I've never seen that happen, nor can I get it to happen.

bftb0
[Droid Eris Android Development] Cyostrife:
i did. it doesnt wait for me either it goes ahead and enters recovery regardless...
[Droid Eris Android Development] tereg:
I am working with Captainkrtrek and giving him as much thorough information as possible. I did document this process and I will try to specify exactly the conditions my OS and phone were in when I achieved it. I'm going to try to be as thorough and methodical as possible.

Edit: In addition to this, yes I have been waiting for as long as the other leakers, but I am willing to go through a repeatability test to ensure this method works. Yes, I will be unrooting as soon as I get this documentation out and will try to replicate it.
[Droid Eris Android Development] bdt1995:
Take your time. We've waited this long, i think we can wait a few more hours for a well written guide that can actually get us root!

Your efforts are appreciated by us all.

Edit: Make sure you tape the repeatability process! Maybe with some commentary? Yay!
[Droid Eris Android Development] HaRdC0r3:
Ok sorry I didn't count past maybe 6 seconds

So I don't think it will wait for you to push in sd