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[myTouch 4G Android Development] lumos5:
You will need the following software:

Superuser

Root explorer

Visionary r13

Z4Root

Terminal

and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.

Why use this method?

I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.

When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.

The method:

- First make sure superuser is running.

- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.

- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a

temp root

- Open z4root and do a temp root.

- run terminal and type: su

- keep terminal open but switch to home screen

- open root explorer

- press mount as R/W

- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute

- switch back to terminal and type:

cd /sdcard/root

hit enter and then type:

sh root.sh

and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.

Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.

reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.

After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.

Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.

That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!
[myTouch 4G Android Development] smirkis:
what's z4root used for when visionary does temproot for you?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lumos5:
You may not need it but when I was attempting to root the phone, that's what I used.

I am thinking you can follow the steps, omit the z4root steps and just use visionary.

For some reason my phone did not want to unlock just with visionary.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] camineroga:
Dont work for me,,,,i try all the stuff here,,i dont know what im doing wrong,,cause the phone said s.off but when im reboot the phone still on
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lumos5:
Wait it says s-off? Then you're good, all you do after the reboot, is run z4root and perm root it
[myTouch 4G Android Development] graffixnyc:
If you follow the directions that grankln posted and do it right then you wont have any problems rooting it. If someone follows that guide and correctly it will root their phone. Its proven to work so if its not working on someone's phone chances are high they aren't doing it right. This thread in unnecessary especially since there are already a few methods of rooting already posted. You are just going to confuse people more
[myTouch 4G Android Development] option94:
I've never seen that guide fail when all steps are performed correctly. Even in irc, when people say that that method doesn't work, I walk them through the steps and it magically works when it failed every time before.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] UniqueJ777:
No luck

well it doesn't work. i try many ways & still nothing.

still have S-ON

Hboot- 0.86.0000

this sucks. rooted about 41 G1/ Mytouch 3G never faced a problem.

smh guess someone should come out with a video for this
[myTouch 4G Android Development] PMGRANDS:
Is this the Best way to Root the MyTouch?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] irrelephant:
Look at the past post, post count, and you will have your answer... Tried and true is the way to go though!
[myTouch 4G Android Development] King350z:
This method works on 2.3.4 ?

sent from HTC Glacier using tapatalk
[myTouch 4G Android Development] The Archangel:
No, you have to downgrade. Check the resource Bible, they're a few threads on how to do it. Then you can root your phone.

If I helped, give thanks, if you please.

........Death before dishonor........
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ian577416:
For God's sake. Having root without write access to the system partition is next to worthless. If anyone has questions regarding rooting there phone then please read the how to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=858996. If you can't figure it out do not go ahead with a procedure you don't understand! Not trying to be a **** but what works is posted. Its proven. It does the trick.
[Droid X General] kailynleto:
What do you want most out of a kernel bypass, or a new kernel?

I figure that I want 1% battery increments lmao...I think Cyanogen is a given.

Want to know what y'all think...
[Droid X General] fmkaiba:
Cyanogenmod! By far.... cause that would fix all the other probs I have with the DX
[Droid X General] Joe92T:
LoopDevices enabled so you can dual boot into ububtu

Overclocking unclocked the *real* way

1% battery increments

Kernal battery tweaks such as HAVS and new governors
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
Drod2169 just incorporated some of the cm governors into rubix 2.0 and they work great... u should check them out
[Droid X General] mattmartin77:
MIUI? or maybe cyanogen. idk really what they look like. definitely 1% increments. and sysadmin im going to flash it now. it sounds interesting.
[Droid X General] dirtyfingers:
These new governors are also enabled in the new update of Droid Overclock!
[Droid X General] Lofi Goosh:
The Minimalistic Text Widget allows for a particular widget design that display the 1% increments.

This is a shot of my lockscreen and the Battery Widget would be the descending numbers to the bottom right.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Overstew:
I tried dialing the data usage (I tried it a few days, I think it was *2) but it only told me how many minutes ive used. Is there a place to see how many mbs ive used?

Thanks,

Overstew
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostmypistons:
Sprint website in mysprint then account
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Overstew:
Thanks, I've used 282mbs. :p
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianhot1:
you can also download an app from the market called 3g watchdog this would be a faster method to keep track of usage
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpzsports:
I'm selling my Droid Eris and want to wipe it so no personal information is stored on it. I'd also like to keep root and the Gingerbread ROM on it because the buyer would like 2.3. Is this possible? I'd like the phone to be so that when you turn it on, it brings you through the steps to activate your phone.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks

On a side note, thank you to everyone in this forum for all the help you've provided over the year. I truly appreciate it. I've upgraded to a Droid Incredible and I'm glad to still be a part of the Android family :)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Performing a "wipe data/factory reset", followed by a format of the SD card should destroy all "personal" information.

Of course, that deletes all the market apps as well - not sure if that is what you had in mind. But the baseline (system) stuff is still on the phone in /system after that wipe, and the new owner can just boot into the rooted ROM you installed and configure it the way they want. (Or you could help them).

I am 99.999% certain that the "/data" partition is completely empty when you wipe it - there is not even any "leftover" data that a forensics expert could get at, without using CIA/NSA-level techniques (extremely expensive). This is an artifact of the way that a "yaffs2" filesystem works when it is erased (and also because eraseblocks in our Nand are 128K in size).

If the formatting performed on the SD card is of a "quick/lazy" variety, there still may be information on the SD card that a forensics expert could recover, but certainly not by anyone that was a casual user. If that concerns you, you can mount the SD card on the PC and use a wiping program such as "sdelete" (Microsoft Windows Sysinternals utilities) to perform a security wipe of it.

The only thing that won't be affected by these procedures is the phone's activation status, you can only clear that if you have a stock recovery and stock ROM on the phone. Strictly speaking though, if you take the phone in to Verizon, (or maybe even call them) and have them dis-associate the phone's ESN/MEID from your plan, the activation status that is recorded on the phone will be useless.

HTH

bftb0

PS - Just read your post more carefully (about the activation part). You will need to completely unroot the phone (including having a stock recovery), and perform a factory reset to clear the activation status. Once you've done this, you will need to re-root your phone after bypassing the activation screen. This means might want to prepare ahead of time with everything you need on your SD card, unless you can get what you want via WiFi.

It's a fair bit of work to do all that. It might be easier to just leave the phone activated, and have Verizon disassociate it from their end of things - the buyer should be able to activate it after he/she has had the phone added to their account with their carrier, and then make a *228 call. (That's all the activation screen is anyway).
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] segphault:
TL;DR if your phone is unlocked (not restricted by network) just delete what's mentioned above and flash a gingerbread ROM with root.

When you boot the phone to make sure it's working, don't go through the activation process at all. Just turn it off.

Sorted.

- Swyped from my rooted HTC Legend -
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
TS;DR

lol
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
There is another way to do this which is less complicated than unrooting and re-rooting if you really insist - but it only works if you have the S-OFF bootloader (v 1.49.2000) on your phone, and have gotten fastboot to work (USB drivers installed) on your PC.

Basically, it boils down to using fastboot to direct-boot a stock recovery to your phone, and then using the "factory reset" menu from within the stock recovery. Doing things this way allows the existing (custom) recovery to stay put (untouched) in flash memory, and the stock recovery will do BOTH the data wipe and the NVRAM reset that clears the phone's activation.

Prerequisites: 1.49.2000 S-OFF bootloader; fastboot program; USB Drivers installed on your PC

(1) Download the Leak-V3 PB00IMG.ZIP from this XDA post

(2) Unpack that zip file; you are interested in the "recovery.img" file.

(3) Charge your phone completely (100%), turn it off, and then re-start it in Fastboot mode (Send+End)

(4)

fastboot boot recovery.img

You will see an image with a black background, a phone, and a red triangle with an exclamation point in it. That's the splash screen of the stock recovery. To see the menu, press Vol-Up+End together. When the menu appears, the text will be in a blue/magenta color.

(5) Select the "Factory Reset / Wipe data" menu entry.

Note that when it runs, the first thing that it mentions is "Restore factory NV setting..." - that's the bit where the activation is being cleared. After that, it will do all the wipes you are familiar with in Amon_RA (or Clockworkmod). (Be patient, there is a small delay).

That's it - other than cleaning up your SD card.

Be aware that some Froyo/GB ROMs are going to be a little flaky about handling the activation - the whole business of needing to press the Menu key to get a keyboard to show up and then toggling to numeric layout to be able to generate a DTMF tone ("press 1 to activate") - are not going to be obvious to someone that is new to the phone. Unless you are planning on assisting the buyer after the sale, it's probably easier to just sell them a returned-to-stock phone.

cheers

bftb0
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpzsports:
Hmmm okay thank you so much for the detailed responses. I really appreciate it. It seems like it's more complicating than I thought.

If I just wanted to return the phone to stock 2.1 unrooted (and avoid having to unroot, and re-root the phone, and reinstall a ROM) how would I do that?

Just get it to like brand new with steps to activate your phone on boot.

Thanks!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Install the "FlashBack21" ROM (find it here on XDA in the dev forum). Charge your phone to 100% and use the ROM with the radio to return the phone to the July OTA stock condition.

When that completes, boot it up and then skip account setup (and any other setups) and do a

Menu -> Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset

When the phone boots next, you will see that it is asking for activation; power the phone off.

Note that you need to tell Verizon to disassociate the phone from your account prior to handing it over to the buyer; otherwise if they run the activation, the phone will just re-activate to your account.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpzsports:
ok sounds good to me. So I'll install the FlashBack ROM, do a factory reset, and format my SD card and it should be clean right?

What's the best way to format my SD Card?

And since I already activated a Droid Incredible, doesn't that automatically disassociate the Eris from my account? You can't have 2 active phones right?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bftb0:
Sure. Or format it first (after backing it up to your PC); you can use the Amon_RA menu to format the SD card if you don't have a media slot or card reader on your PC. Won't really matter if there's one ROM file on the SD card.

The most secure way to do things is what I already discussed - format it any way you please, and then mount it to the PC and use that "sdelete" utility from Microsoft. (read the docs on how to wipe an "empty" drive). The most convenient, and probably least secure way to format it is using the phone menus - either the OS menu, or the Amon_RA format menu.

Yes, that sounds right, but I would call Verizon before you ship/hand over the phone and ask them to be sure.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpzsports:
Thank You so much for all your help! :) You've been awesome!

I'm going to go ahead with this process now and hopefully everything will work out.

EDIT: It worked perfect and boots to the Activation screen. Thanks again!
[Vibrant General] Claudius07:
So in the past week whenever I download my podcasts to listen in my car, the download speeds are basically on Edge, which means It takes about an hour for one download..which is my total commute.

So the thing is I just flashed bionix 1.3 and it had ka5 modem, I thought it might be the modem so I got ka7... After doing a speed test which was around 1mg down I stuck with it...but never the less my download speeds for my podcasts are still at around .1megabits.... I then tried kb1 but still no luck... My speed tests are great but actual download speed in the native browser is horrific... The thing is websites load very fast, I can stream the exact same podcasts through flash player and they work flawlessly.. I even downloaded the same podcasts with opera mini browser and they go at around 1.5 megabits per secound...it seems that only downloading through the native browser does this...any one have an idea of what is going on? Have you heard of anything like this? Am I being throttled on downloads? Btw the websites were I listen to these podcasts are revision3,twit.tv and cnet, if that helps ...
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Check your account on the web you may be throttled. Also you may want to try Dolphin browser. It works very well
[Vibrant General] k4ylr:
If you reached your 10Gb cap then you would throttled to roughly Edge speeds.

10Gb is a lot of data to chew through in a month but if you tether a bunch for long periods thata your culprit.
[Vibrant General] dany865:
I thought the cap was 5 gb. Or is it on the older plan?
[Vibrant General] badaphooko01:
Have you tried using a podacast app like google listen or podcatcher to d/l instead of using the browser? I usually listen to twit live using the twit app, I don't d/l anymore it just takes too long.
[Vibrant General] epakrat75:
Well, you could always download the podcasts before (previous night, etc if available) your commute until your new billing cycle begins. ;)

5 GB is the current plan. 10 GB is the old grandfathered one.
[Vibrant General] dandab:
i thought they throttle you at 5gb. i reach that limit just about every month. either way, t-mobile will text you if you are being throttled due to limit cap, so if they haven't done that, that's probably not it. I can't really help you other than to tell you to go buy "doggcatcher". It's pretty much the best podcast tool out on android. it's a few bucks but if your'e the type of person that listens to podcasts a lot it's definitely worth it.

1. you can set a schedule so that your phone will automatically update and download your podcast feed with the most recent episode and you can set how many episodes it will save at one time.

2. set it to only download podcasts onto your phone if your on wifi only and or if your phone is plugged into a power source.

3. you can long press podcasts and stream it over 3g if the podcast rss updated but your not on wifi to download it.

4. does audio and video. you can even choose the video player of your choice.

5. very nice clean interface.

6. you can add podcast feeds by searching, recommendations, rss, and popular podcasts are ready to add easily and instantly (twit network, revision3, youtube, npr, bbc)

that's just a few useful things off the top of my head that this program can do. trust me. just buy the program let it work it's magic when your on wifi while you sleep and when you're on your commute you will have a bunch of content ready for you to listen to without worrying about being throttled or being cut off in the middle of a podcast.

It takes some time to setup doggcatcher just the way you want it to fit to your schedule but once you got it down, i'm sure you'll be happy with this program.

sorry i couldn't answer your throttle question but this thing will definitely help keep your 3g data traffic low.

cheers,

dan
[Vibrant General] Claudius07:
Thanks to everyone for the quick replies.. Before posting this I checked my data usage and I als checked it this morning as well, it states that I am at 1gig... also a side note, the tmobile my account app, has a reminder setting that lets you know when your reaching your limit, but it won't let me activate it because i am on the "unlimited" plan.. i thought that was wierd, since i know i have a 5 gig cap... but anyways back to my original post, thanks dan and badaphook for your suggestion on apps, I will look into them.

My post is more regarding the fact that it seem that my downloads are being throttled.When viewing websites and doing speed tests Im getting anywhere from 1-2.5mgbits but downloading doesnt come close.. only then does my connection seem to be throttled. Has anyone heard of this or experienced it? I would call tmobile to see if they have anything to do with it, but I'm not sure if it might be a side effect of my rom? any ideas anyone?
[Atrix 4G General] plmiller0905:
Sorry Please Close
[Galaxy 3 General] emceefat:
i tried the new f/w for i5801 ie. i5801bvjp9. first things first, it works like a breeze. its orange branded jpf but thre are a few differences as the bluetooth is better and faster( i think ) and the battery life is far superior. though there arent any bugs as such, i cant seem to receive calls. im able to make calls send/receive messages. even edge is working fine.. i havent rooted it yet. and i was wondering if anyone else faced this problem if yes ...den do tell me how u fixed it or plan to fix it..!! :)
[Galaxy 3 General] Humpie:
Try to flash the rom again or try another rom. Try also hard reset.
[Galaxy 3 General] rajuking06:
Hi this is sandeep ,

if you having prob receive calls when you are in other call ....... hear is the FIX

go to settings -> call settings -> voice call -> call waiting ( is chk marked )

hope it will help you
[Galaxy 3 General] Tumbling Dice:
I had +/- the same problem.

When receiving a call, it always stopped after the first ring and the phone began to vibrate.

I solved this that way :

Applications -> Manage applications -> All -> CLEAR DATA on every application that deals with the phone call (clearing one app could have been enough but I couldn't find which one caused the issue as the error message didn't remain long enough on the screen)
[Galaxy 3 General] emceefat:
thanks for all the replies ultimately reflashing solved it ..!! have installed the new asia rom i5801zmjpf wich is for hong kong (ie default lang is chinies nd comes with an annoying chinese keyboard) .. its nt a provider software so no more orange ...!! cheers..!! nd second cannot see my imei in settings ... third is i cant root it plz help wid root ... tried all methods... including z4root , superoneclick, etc etc... HELP!!!
[Galaxy 3 General] akshay99:
Try to factory reset *2767*3855# dial…

Its 100% working.......
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xXblastingXx:
OK here it goes... I decided to root my phone for so many reasons.. now i had it working for a few roms, (developers I think you might get be puzzled on this), well I rooted the unrevoked 3 for the incredible file.. it went well on the rooting part and my super user app worked fine... so i go in my rom manager premium app,,, i tried to download the latest version of the gingerbread rom... i forgot what was it called but its the only the latest gingerbread rom... now I loaded it... it was going good until the rebooted part when my incredible was rebooting and started to have the gingerbread being eating and loading part.. so I thought it was good but i noticed it was already over an hour and it still was showing that same loading part.... Now I am stuck and Im thinking I f*cked up my phone:mad:... lmao:D.. just material things thats all to me.. but i love my incredible... I was hoping if any developers can help me out on this situation because I just don want to go buy a new phone... I think unrevoked doesnt know how to make solid apk files to root phones.. Please if anyone can find a solution to this please let me know.. I am thinking of letting my battery go because is still running... but damn... I thinking... before my battery would die real fast and now i am trying to make it go dead it doesnt want to... apps should be like this... last long conserve battery more....my battery was at 40 percent.. when i started to root it into the gingerbread from rom manager... its been two hours and a half and still running the same animation... please help... :confused:

Thank you :cool:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skrillex1:
Your phone is in a bootloop, pull the battery go into recorvery pwr+vol down. Restore a backup of an old ROM, or you can try to just pull the battery and try turning it on normally, but you might get caught in bootloop. If you're in that boot animation it will take a while for battery to die.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xXblastingXx:
I tried that but the boot loop is still in effect... should i just wait till the battery is dead to try to recover my old rom?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skrillex1:
Just go into recovery and restore you're old ROM.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keyboards:
Just restore to an older backup, or put a new ROM on your SD Card (using a reader obviously) and flash that. Make sure you wipe data/cache/dalvik (in advanced menu)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithos der Held:
Just make sure that if you have been letting the battery die to let it charge via the wall outlet first. Don't ever try to flash anything on a low battery. Battery goes while you flash important stuff... you could be in deeper trouble.