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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
Well I rooted by Slide over a month ago. Well I got that new OTA from T-Mobile and forgot about it wiping out the root if you accept. But I had no problem having to reroot the phone again. Well, I think I am doing something wrong, but can't put my finger on it! This is what I did. While following the directions on page 1.

But when I go to do the following.

I keep getting the following...

Cause of this I can't get into Clockwork to complete the steps. I even tried the steps from Just Another tech Blog's Complete guide to rooting and hacking the HTC Slide Which I can't get to work. I do have a question, this should work even if you had that recent OTA update from T-Mobile right?

Oh only if their was a video with this new version of rooting. Sometimes seeing it being done is much more helpful than reading direction.:D

Thanks for your help!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ratchetrizzo:
You didnt put the ESPRIMG.zip for the eng build on your sdcard.

After you root it and do the crap with the flash_image, you need the epsrimg.zip so it actually flashes the build from STOCK RECOVERY (power on + vol down). You do NOT flash this in clockwork, and its the reason you can't get in to clockwork. This instantly loads when you go into stock recovery and asks you to proceed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Marvelous0ne:
I figured out what I did wrong. I was stupid! I skipped over the install part and kept denying it to be installed.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Balemdroid:
I followed everything and everything worked exactly as said.. but other then losing all of my downloaded apps and having to resetup everything, I don't see that anything actually happened? How do i know if I am in fact rooted?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] matt371:
Thanks so much!!!

You rock!!

I had root until my the update alert woke me at 3am, and I did the update without thinking...

after that, my slde was crap, fc's all the time, battery wouldnt last a day, it would freeze up a lot.

Now no more T-Mobile bloat, and Froyo goodness!

Thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] SKAm69:
This is the only way I got my Slide rooted and upgraded to Froyo. Twice already. Thanks! Chromatic rom is awesome by the way.:p
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] drsfinest2886:
What folders or .zip do I put on my sdcard? please someone help. Thanks
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] pactive73:
Awesome work... Works grate
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] truerenegade62:
thank you for this... i tried about 3-4 different root methods, and this one is the only one that worked for me!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] haiishq:
ok this is really frustrating i am stuck at this point

"ive the phone a minute then will read the moded file on card"

it keeps saying no image found, no image found

i tried again and again

followed every step carefully

i have also format my sccard with the phoen and did adb push "ESPRIMG.zip" \sdcard\ESPRIMG.zip

and when i restart i still get no image found

please help

thanks

my about info

Firmware 2.1 Update1

Baseband 47.41.35.10U_7.09.35.10

Kernel Version 2.6.29-293ab809htc-kernel@and8-2 #1

Build Number 1.35.531.1 CL216830 release-key

Software 1.35.531.1

Browser Version Webkit3.1
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] money69:
Cdmod error

Ive went through all 6 pages of this thread so far and saw at least 2 other people ask it but have not seen any answers. When you get to:

cdmod 0755 exploid

I get "permission denied". What am I doing wrong, everything completed without errors up until this point. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tramane:
I was having issues with flashing this as well.

THE BIGGEST THING is to format the sdcard on your computer and make sure its formatted to FAT32 not FAT
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jaygajay:
I'm sorry. When doing this to root, will any of the steps wipe the stock rom on my Slide other than the 'flashing a new rom' part. I'm looking to just root the phone without wiping anything.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] MrCambo87:
Stuck...

After the frozen ESPRIMG.zip part, I got confuse.

I'm not sure how to do this part...

commands_______ things in () don't run just memos

adb shell

(should now see a $)

cd /sqlite_stmt_journals

chmod 0755 exploid

./exploid

(will have initated the loop hole to get root)

(at this time go to settings and turn wifi on and then back off before continuing)

./exploid

---The password is : secretlol

(You should now have a # instead of a $)

cd /data/local

chmod 04755 *

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img

Every time i do the "adb shell" I dont get a "$" but I get "#"

Can anyone help me step by step?

Thanks~
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] GunBuri:
Ha, this is the same thing I said back on like, the second page. But yeah, after getting many different errors and whatnot when I was rooting, formating it(the sdcard) from my computer and not the phone solved all my issues.

I plugged the phone via the provided usb cable too, didn't need an adapter or anything.

Hope this helps someone!

Also, don't use a crappy SD card neither.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xblue95:
This was very easy, no problems at all except I forgot to put the * in the second to the last command (chmod 04755 *) and got a permissions error. Other than that, everything went great! I flashed CyanogenMod-6 ROM from Slide Stock w/OTA. No problems so far. I formatted my SD using the phone beforehand. I'm trying to figure out which radio the CyanogenMod-6 ROM loads, I don't see radio listed in settings? My radio was 7.09.35.10 from the OTA before the load, now I don't know what it is?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] emacomputer:
after

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img

i got

/data/local/flash_image: permission denied

#

what to after that
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Tzatlacael:
This guide walks you step by step with details how to root you HTC Slide, is peeeerrrfect!

http://richard.gluga.com/2010/08/complete-guide-to-rooting-and-hacking.html

I'm not an android expert, but I followed this guide when pI had the same problem following the others and getting permission denied.

Follow that guide and pass it to some one else who might need it, because it works!

_________________________________________________

¤I slide with Syle¤

¤-MyTouch 3G Slide- HTC Espresso Sense¤

¤SlideMEROOT5 Rom¤
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kisstheskye:
I got this to work, With only a minor hick-up. I could not get the bootloader to scan the esprimg.zip file, It just skipped it. then i remembered something about the format of the sdcard use to be in when i had a mytouch 3g.

And i found it was in the wrong format, I formatted it from "fat" to "fat32" manually on windows and it worked fine. scanned the file and updated. So if anyone is having problems with that specific thing, you might want to try formatting your sdcard.

so if anyone having that problem, Try formatting your sd card in your phone manually to "fat32". That is the only problem i had.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] donkey72:
Most ROMs do not change your radio.

(Cr ota is the only slide rom to do so) However to be certain go to settings, about phone, the last digits of baseband version will show your radio version.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] pbedard:
problem with esprimg

It keeps telling me that its an older update do I ignore this ? Then I tried ignoring and it refuses update.zip it fails.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] damascus211:
Easiest method yet

This was very easy and very clear all you have to do to get this to work is follow the instructions to the "T" and you are done!!!!

Thanks for the clear explanation
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] raider09:
ESPRIMG.zip Fails!!!

I have followed the method by TheArtiszan and when I get to the point to flash ESPRIMG.zip in bootloader, I get a message saying update fail and it gives me an option to reboot. What do I do then!?!?! I have tried doing it multiple times, nothing, I have also tried install the other ESPRIMG.zip file that is different in kb, nothing, what do I do!?!?!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] faldiin:
I am not sure if you fixed your phone. I found info missing (or I missed something and I flashed 2 phones and had issues).

These are the steps I took. I comprised this of 3 post. All credit goes to them.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754020

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=703076

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754669

adb push exploid /sqlite_stmt_journals

adb push flash_image /data/local

adb push mtd0.img /data/local

Run: adb shell

Run: cd /sqlite_stmt_journals

Run: chmod 0755 exploid

Run: ./exploid

Toggle your phone's Wifi (on or off, however you wish to do that).

Now (again) run: ./exploid

It should prompt you for a password, enter: secretlol. If it didn't prompt you for a password, but instead just output the same text that it did the first time you ran it, then something isn't setup right. Make sure to follow the directions verbatim.

(will have initated the loop hole to get root)

(at this time go to settings and turn wifi on and then back off before continuing)

(You should now have a # instead of a $)

cd /data/local

chmod 04755 *

/data/local/flash_image misc /data/local/mtd0.img

ok now we are set to apply the engineering build to get a custom rom

Turn off the device

Press and hold volume down and then power up and hold both

let go when see the 3 skateboarding androids

give the phone a minute then will read the moded file on card

when is ready press volume up to apply this update

--- This will take a while just let it run

WAIT - when done it will ask you to reboot DON'T

press volume down for no

then back on bootloader screen press volume down once to highlight recovery and select with power to boot recovery

on the recovery you will have a device with a triangle

hold volume up and power for a second together

volume down and power to select for apply update.zip

and you will then be loaded into the clockwork recovery and will beable to flash the rom of your choosing from sd card.

You can use touch pad not to scroll down and select install zip from sd

select choose zip from sdcard

find your rom and apply

You are now rooted enjoy

GL and I hope this helps.

Faldiin
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tyron.townsend:
my device keep saying offline someone plz help
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] atlmatt:
THANK YOU!!!

I am in the middle of it booting up after following the steps in the above tutorial. and everything looks like it is going well...

and it WORKS!!!!!

I am running teamfenix 2.0 right now. As that is the one that was in the tutorial and decided to give it a chance and see how it works.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Housetek:
it says signature verification failed installation aborted.

I have the update.zip on the root of the sd card and its been formated to fat32

not sure what to do now.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] saynotopunx:
Thanks very much. I have been trying to root the slide since day 1. No guide has been able to make sense to me. There were a couple of places I had to kind of figure out for myself (which I intend to post later on) but overall pretty much simple way to root the phone. Now I am running Cyanogen 6 Froyo on my Slide. Thanks again!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] vikramdhani:
I tried these steps but once i go into the recovery mode with vol down and power button. nothing is happening after that. can someone help me what might be causing the issue ?

Am i supposed to copy the root slide folder on my sd card ?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] graffitimonkie:
Anyone else having issues downloading the entire slideroot file from 4shared.com?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] alexjgonzalez:
sorry im a noob

hey guys quick question i hacked my girls myt3gs.and im sure because i followed everything here and i got to the clockwork recovery and jus system wiped everything.and rebooted.it took a long while to get to the screen.then i download the wi-fi tether apk and installed.but it wont work?????

BTW I DIDNT PUT A CUSTOM ROM ON.I MYSELF HAD A MYT3GS WITH EUGENES ROM BUT I SOLD IT FOR FINANCIAL PURPOSES.LOL

ANYWAYS WHAT SHOULD I DO????? SHOULD I DO UNROOT AND TRY AGAIN.

OR IS IT BETTER TO JUS PUT A CUSTOM ROM.

ANY SIMILAR CASES OUT THEIR????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dator97:
everything goes right for me exept when i get to

chmod 0755 exploid

i put that in and get this

unable to chmod exploide: no such file or directory
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] emacomputer:
i put the slidemeroot on the sd card

Turn off the device

Press and hold volume down and then power up and hold both

let go when see the 3 skateboarding androids

give the phone a minute then will read the moded file on card

when is ready press volume up to apply this update

--- This will take a while just let it run

WAIT - when done it will ask you to reboot DON'T

press volume down for no

then back on bootloader screen press volume down once to highlight recovery and select with power to boot recovery

on the recovery you will have a device with a triangle

hold volume up and power for a second together

volume down and power to select for apply update.zip

and you will then be loaded into the clockwork recovery and will beable to flash the rom of your choosing from sd card.

You can use touch pad not to scroll down and select install zip from sd

select choose zip from sdcard

find your rom and apply
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] RoyaITaco:
Stuck :(

Im doing fine until i get to this point...

/data/local/flash_image misc data/local/mtd0.img

i keep getting permission denied.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] okyere:
Thanks a lot for this. I followed it to the letter & I rooted and flashed CM6 in a few minutes. For anyone who wants to try this, please make sure you have your adb drivers installed and working correctly. I had to go back & do that and it took me a while. But I got a link from the forum that had the drivers from HTC for Windows 7 64 bit. From that point, these instructions were straight forward. Thanks a ton. I'm loving this new device.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kaister:
Thank you to all involved with the dealing of this post, first off for those who did the work and to those who posted it! ;)

After trying to get this XP machine to notice this in adb devices almost ten times, i had to download "PdaNetA245.exe" and install it and reboot the pc and device as well for good measure.

Although it installed right, when i went to adb devices, it would still not see the device...i had a thought...

I went to "options/Applications/development/USB debugging" and unchecked and then rechecked it and then it would show up in my adb devices...weird..

After that, it was all good! :)

Thanks again and blessings to you all! :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dator97:
ok if you still have problems make sure these files are on your sd card

exploid mtd0 and flash-image along with esprimg
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Karily:
Thanx a lot

This helped out a lot.

Very easy to do. ^_^
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xzoombinis65x:
Hey, I get to the part where i open the command prompt and I type myroot, the list starts but it says device not found. Even before this, when i connect the usb with my phone and computer the computer doesnt do anything, is that the way its suppose to be? Or is there something wrong with my phone, please provide help in steps.

Thanks in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dator97:
first thing make sure phone is hooked to pc and is in charge mode and debug mode is enabled

Easy root guide for the MyTouch slide currently any version downloads at bottom

Make sure before starting that the device has atleast 50% battery charge.

Go to C drive on pc and make a new folder we will call root

Copy then all the files from the zip into that folder.

__________________________________________________ _________

not required but you should also copy a rom that you want to use the the root of the sdcard on the device too then I have included teamfenix 1.7.1 as is a stable 2.2 android rom but you can use anyone you want.

__________________________________________________ _________

First we will need to get some files to the device would be easiest with a following settings already done:

settings > applications > development > USB debugging (check mark here)

settings > connect to pc > charge only

settings > wireless & networks > wifi unchecked (important)

settings > sound & display > screen timeout > never

Now connect device

Then start the command prompt and uses these commands to move the files we will need

cd C:\root

myroot (just allow to continue we covered the steps in it already)

Will take a few minutes for that to copy everything over to the places on the phone where we need them. will look like is frozen on ESPRIMG.zip that is normal don't interupt it just let it go.

when done we are now ready to actually get root and allow phone to let us get a recovery on there we can use with a few more commands
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xzoombinis65x:
Thanks for trying but, that was no help. I have the phone plugged in, the LED is on, above 50%, the debugging is on. My computer does no find it or anything, no in computer folder, I dont get the mount option in my phone's status bar either. Advice ANYONE?

Thanks again
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jM2.me:
Howcome bootloader cant find file ESPRIMG.zip on sd card?

SD Card is clean, 2GB. File is in root folder.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jM2.me:
!!! WARNING !!! WARNING !!! WARNING !!!

Make sure format of SD card is FAT32 and not FAT or any other!!! I wasted one day trying to root myslide. Moderators please add this to first post!!!

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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dator97:
are you able to run myroot? is your sd card fat formatted? if so after you run my root go look on it make sure the files myroot tried to put on it and copy em over if they havnt for me this is the only prob i had was with myroot not copying then set it back to charge only and run rest of the directions
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] archie53:
I had this same problem, what Windows are you running? For some reason my computer with XP would not see the device, had to use my wife's with Vista on it, which worked perfect. If you have acess to another computer try too see if it will see the phone.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Willpbeck:
When I follow this verbatim it does not work I get to chmod 0755 and then I get this file not in specified directory but I do the whole thing copy and paste so the commands are the way they are in the tutorial
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] alexjgonzalez:
help?

hey guys i neeed help?

i rooted the mytouchslide

but with no rom.

i know bc i got to clockwork recovery.

i downloaded the stable wifi apk

but it does not work.

i also tried other wifi apps on market

is their something wrong with the way i rooted?

or do i jus have to put a rom on.

an answer would be highly appreciated.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] djnxs2010:
mytouch slide HELP!

just a question, im trying to root me slide but keep getting this error

finding update package

opening update package

verifying update package

E: failed to verify whole-file signature

can you help with this
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] astallasalion:
Thank you so much!

I've spent the past four hours scratching my head, going through three or four other root methods 3 times each.

This has by far been the easiest one. It only took 5 minutes!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ZachSettle:
Thanks & Tip

First off thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. A few months ago, I couldn't root my phone because I couldn't catch it during the boot loop and I never got my timing right. Or maybe the dice didn't roll in my favor. Either way, thanks to everyone...this has really made my night.

Second. Just a tip for everyone. This may have been posted, but I didn't care to read through all 10 pages. I was having problems with ESPRIMG.zip freezing and not making any progress. (I waited an hour while I had dinner) :mad:

It turns out that one of the USB ports that the MT3GS was plugged into was coming off of a hub and thus, the transfer rate and output voltage of the port was diminished.

In plainer English this means that if you are getting stuck or not finding ESPRIMG.zip in your root directory, make sure you are plugged into a USB port that is coming directly from your computer rather than a hub, through your keyboard, or even off of a PCI card.

If that means you loose your webcam for 30 minutes, I think it's worth a shot...and from my experience this is what helped me. I am now proudly rocking 2.2

Thanks again all.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sharababy1:
i cant get the abd set up on my computer and a person half way rooted my slide and said that he couldnt find a update.zip that was up to date and i rebooted my phone and it saysa pic of phone with triange ! help please i dont know what to do
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] TheArtiszan:
Does it still stay on the same screen if you pull the battery.

While you are on the triangle screen hold vol up and power

press vol down to highlight data wipe and run that with power button.

If does not work may need the stock nbh file to fully reflash back to shipping software version.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] crimson_wake:
Okay, I've gotten to the Recovery screen, and I'd like to load something - a new ROM, the original ROM - whatever I have to do.

I don't see a ROM loader or launcher option. I've run update.zip from the SD card, so I reboot. When I get into the phone it's basically a factory reset. IS this it?

I am only rooting to run a wifi hotspot. After seeing how easy it is to get to this screen, I've just put the slidemeroot2.zip on the root of the SD card.

Should I just choose to run that zip file and be done with it? I really like the look of what I see in youtube videos of it, so I want to make that happen.

Please help.

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] crimson_wake:
Okay, so I went into recovery and I loaded Slidemeroot2.zip and it installed everything. I then cleared the partition cache. I then chose to reboot. I don't see anything different.

Is there a way to check to see what I've done, what I have access to etc?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] crimson_wake:
Never mind, apparently I do. I simply chose to load the zip file from Clockwork, and rebooted. Now I have root, I'm tetherd, and I've been playing with it for an hour or so!

Easy!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] immortalxgod:
This method looks similar to the unlockrs one........But on anynote good job?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] AbsolutZeroGI:
To be perfectly honest, rooting my Touch was the first mod I've ever done on anything, and this was the version I best understood. Kudos to the OP.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] mr.johnsexydavis911:
this is the only method i can get to work, and it takes like 15 minutes. good job
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] xzoombinis65x:
I get to the part where you turn off the phone

Everything goes great until I get to the point i turn off my phone and I turn it on pressing down on the volume and power up. I do not see anything that lets me "apply the update"

Please help, thanks in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
When in hboot press volume down to choose recovery, press power to select, when there press volume up and power and wait like 10 seconds, options will show up, press volume down to select "apply update.zip", welcome to clockwork.