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[HTC Inspire 4G] noccaedm:
oh wow. it is not turned on..i am so stupid, its usually on, but i turned it off because PDAnet wasnt working over usb tether. lol
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
It's the little things :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] noccaedm:
im going to lunch for like a half hour right now, so ill try and test it all out again. if it doesnt work. i cant possibly think of anything else i forgot to do. i even set up sdk and AVD manager and got the platforms-tools folder.
[HTC Inspire 4G] noccaedm:
ok, i enabled usb debugging, input cd /nicholasreid/Desktop/Inspire/adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc2/mmc2:*/cid and got nothing...

then i dragged the adb command onto terminal and i get like 10 pages of stuff.

and it also says i need some PPP over USB connection to communicate.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
it's something in your typing not working when I copy adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2:*/cid straight from the hack kit readme it works just fine if I am running it from the directory where my ADB lives.
[HTC Inspire 4G] noccaedm:
im going to do it when i get home at about 330 or 4pm and see how it works
[HTC Inspire 4G] Hermdroid:
So when you make a gold card using this process you can just start downloading custom roms?
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
rooting/unlocking Inspire 4g on a Mac

I understand that the Ace Hack Kit has been taken down, so I'm wondering how I would now go about rooting my HTC Inspire using my Mac. Is there a way to do this without the hack kit?

What I want to do with this phone, which is an AT&T phone I got from a friend when she switched to an iPhone, is switch it over to TMobile, as I have a contract with them for about another year. Do I even need to root the phone, or is there a way I can just unlock it for free? If so, is there a reason why I would want to root the phone anyway? Sorry for so many questions, I'm a complete newbie with Android phones.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
You can unlock the bootloader, but that won't unlock the phone to use with TMobile. You will need to do the manual procedure on the AAHK website for that.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
Which site is that?

I called AT&T and they are sending me an unlock code within a couple of days. Are you saying that even after I have this, I will still need to root the phone in order to get it to work with TMobile?

When I Google AAHK it brings back a lot of entries. Which is the AAHK site and where would I find the manual procedure?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm dumb about smartphones, never had one before.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
No. With the unlock code you don't need to do it yourself.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
No unlock code from AT&T, guess I need to root

They wouldn't give me the unlock code though they had said they would. They said the device was "unlockable" which I guess means that they aren't willing to give me an unlock code for some reason.

So, now I'm trying to root. I downloaded the sdk developers tools from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, and when I run it I get the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

Googled this and apparently the error message means that my computer's version of Java is older than that in which the program is written and that is why it won't run.

So, a couple of things I'm wondering:

1) I'm guessing that the hangup is that I have a version of OS X that won't run the version of Java that I need. I have OS X 10.5.8, Leopard. Am I correct? I did actually recently purchase Snow Leopard but haven't installed it yet, so perhaps that is my next step.

2) I'm following the procedure outlined in the Android Root Guide on Mac OS X videos to try and root the phone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OgYscP-bho). Does this seem like a good approach, or should I try something else instead?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
Sorry, I've never used a Mac in my life, so I have absolutely no idea. Usually I don't like video tutorials, because they tend to get out of date and don't always encompass every scenario, but other than that I have no advice to give.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
fastboot error

Still working on trying to get phone rooted, followed the instructions on the htcdev.com site for unlocking my bootloader, and I'm getting stuck here:

http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-3

When I type in

fastboot oem get_identifier_token

as instructed there, I get a "command not found" error. I noted that the instructions showed a Windows terminal, so after Googling around I figured out I needed a mac version of fastboot, fastboot-mac. So, installed that and tried to run the program as above:

fastboot-mac oem get_identifier_token

and I get the following error message:

... FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))

So now I'm stuck, haven't succeeded in finding a thread that gives a solution to this issue so far. Any help continuing from here would be much appreciated!
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
You need to be in fastboot USB and not HBOOT USB PLUG..press power button to toggle.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
Oh, right, forgot that. However, when I do that and enter

./fastboot-mac oem get_identifier_token I get:

... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
Looks like I have s-off anyway...

Despite the error message I got when I tried to enter fastboot commands, I see the following info. at the top of the screen when the phone is in fastboot:

ACE PUT ENG S-OFF BL

HBOOT-0.85.2425

MICROP-0438

RADIO-26.10.04.03_M

eMMC-boot

Apr 12 20011,00:55:45

So it appears that the phone either went into S-OFF somehow or it already was when I got the phone. Is this correct? How to proceed from here?
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
The one fastboot command that's worked so far is getvar all. When I do so, I get the following output:

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 0.85.2425

INFOversion-baseband: 26.10.04.03_M

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: 0438

INFOversion-main: 2.47.502.7

INFOserialno: HT15CT205656

INFOimei: 357814047563831

INFOproduct: ace

INFOplatform: HBOOT-7230

INFOmodelid: PD9812000

INFOcidnum: 11111111

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 4157mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: off

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: a3d4fa0f

INFOhbootpreupdate: 11

INFOgencheckpt: 0

INFOregion-id: 0

all: Done!

So it appears that the phone is unlocked even though fastboot has given me error messages for everything else. Correct? I'm not sure how that happened. If so, given that the Ace Hack Kit isn't here any more, is there any particular way that's best for continuing the rooting process from here? Thanks anyone for your help!
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
Why are you trying to unlock the bootloader when you are S-OFF. That means that you were probably sim unlocked. Have you tried another sim?
[HTC Inspire 4G] jeffmelton:
As I said, it was a surprise to me that it was S-OFF. If it is S-OFF, does that mean the bootloader is also unlocked? That's kind of what I was asking. I'm not sure why I would want to try another sim. Sorry, I'm a newbie at this, I'm just trying to figure out what the next step in the rooting process is. Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
Bootloader unlock is not the same is SIM unlock. Bootloader unlock lets you flash stuff to your phone's partitions. SIM unlock lets you use other carriers' SIM cards.

S-Off is not the same as bootloader unlock. S-Off grants more freedom than bootloader unlock; for example, you can flash radios and don't need to fastboot flash the boot.img each time you flash a ROM.

With S-Off, just fastboot flash a custom recovery and flash a ROM from there.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
Pretty new to flashing roms and trying to get it right...

So I'm going from MikFroyo4.5 to Vaelpak 3.2. Is it safe to try to restore my "home" pages using MyBackupRoot? I am going to use it to restore my texts, call log, etc. I know not to do system settings... Also, I backed up only the user apps with Titanium Pro. Advice appreciated!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You can backup all your apps and data, and then restore them. Also you launcher settings. When you restore on you new rom, restore apps and data, but NOT system settings, may get FCs. You're good to go. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
I read something about only restoring user apps, not system apps. So I only backed up the user apps. So launcher settings is OK to restore? Is it a problem if I try to do that when I am going to an AOSP rom and my backup was from a sense based rom?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
You can't restore launcher settings from sense, since that's not your launcher anymore.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
No one said he wasn't using a launcher. I said it just in case.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Yeah, I wasn't going against anything you said, just saying in case he wasn't using a launcher and was trying to switch to aosp from sense, can't restore homescreen setups.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well in that case, that's correct. But I hope he was using a launcher. :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
Well, in this case I'm going from one sense based rom MikFroyo to another Vaelpak. But I'm not sure what launcher Vaelpak comes with, and not sure if I should try to restore my home screens or not. I think Vaelpak comes with LauncherPro and ADW. So is that "instead of" the sense launcher? And does that mean I should not try to restore my home/launcher/widgets? Sorry about being confused but I'm just not quite speaking the language yet...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You're fine. Just do everything I said earlier, but no need to worry about the restoring launcher settings, since you didn't have one, and you'll be set, and no, don't restore home screen settings.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
VaelPak is awesome. You will enjoy it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
OK, so here's are some really basic questions...

Does sense come with it's own launcher? and are the "home pages" part of the "launcher"?

I guess when I use ADW or LauncherPro I'm not sure what I'm replacing / not using from the original Sense software...:confused: lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well, sense is basically its own launcher, the plain stock htc sense. You get the number of panels, and the 2 buttons at the bottom. With ADW, launcher pro, ect, you can customize your docks, icons, backgrounds for the launcher, gives you more customization.

I uploaded a pick of my home screen so you can see the launcher, with custom icons. I'm using launcher pro. The second is using the cube transition.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
So what would happen if I tried to restore my "home screens" using MyBackupRoot? Would it hose the phone up?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Not really, you just may get some force closes, and to the worse extent a bootloop.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdmpe:
Well, I hate to set it all up from scratch again, major PITA but I guess I'll do that. I could do a nandroid then restore the home screens and if it's bad, go back to the nandroid...

This is the first I've used Titanium Pro, worked great and was fast.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
True, but you need to do it to get more comfortable, and yea, the pro version is a lot faster, and you won't have to restore apps one by one when you restore.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
I have a bricked mytouch 1.2 with RADIO:2.22.23.02

SPL:13.33.0013 i cant access recovery and get bootloops ...i can however access fastboot/hboot... i used the sappimg.zip trick to get back to cupcake..but my phone just wont read it...it says NO IMAGE u

nder SAPPIMG.zip while trying to flash in hboot...any help...a little tight in money cant afford another phone at the moment..thanks..:o
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Make sure that the sappimg isn't sappimg.zip.zip. &o to Control Panel-Folder Options-Uncheck the box that says "Hide known file extensions". If that's good, then format the card and copy the file back over. Make sure you backup your pictures and stuff since the format will erase the card.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
If you can access the bootloader then you're not bricked.

Imagine powering on your phone and you can't access the bootloader, recovery and your phone won't even boot at all. That's a real brick.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rhadee:
i had this problem last night trying to install gingerbread from yoshi i`ve flashed phone`s radio and hboot , to those versions that was recommended but after I started rom first time my phone started to restart itself , just like a bootloop , but my luck was that i had goldcard with a saphire.zip on it and it worked perfectly for me.I`ve notice that this SPL is locked and that`s why you can`t access recovery.hope this helps.cheers
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] djtar:
use the guide in my sig it will help you
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
did both maybe its a bad sappimg.zip file can anybody hook me up with a link?;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Link.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
hmmmmmmmm very very intersting....i used that same file.....wtf
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
I would still try downloading it again. Your not putting the file inside any folders on the SD card, correct?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
no im not.... weird thing is ive used sappimg before....i will try it again....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] djtar:
is your problem fixed?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
no it did not fix i have been getting by on my old razor:( i havnt messed with my mytouch in a couple weeks now...never did fix that thing
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Try formatting your SD card and then running the sappimg again. Make sure you backup anything you want to keep from your SD card. Format to FAT32 default block size if you do it in Windows.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
Im sorry ...I know am extremely inconsistent with my posts ..im sorry... but heres an update...ive got the SAPPIMG on the sd card...it finds it and installs it and everything then when i reboot...BOOM!...Bootloops!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
Well...I Guess this problem is completely Unfixable-.-...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkguy2008:
I think you need to boot into bootloader AFTER you do the SAPPIMG thing, then install a RUU, and from then you can fix it. No?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] iRootAll:
Im having the same issue.I got another sappimg.zip other than the one from theunlockr but when I try and flash it, it hangs up on unzipping the system. My computer recognizes the phone but adb will not. Im lost....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Pancake Modz:
RUU?????????????

I was sooo happy when I finally got SAPPIMG.zip to be read by the phone...then I still cant access Recovery...i do not have a gold card ....and i do not know what a RUU is....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] iRootAll:
I finally got mine up and running with cm. You need to flash Amon RA's recovery...then you will be able to get into recovery. Check out cyanogenmod's wiki. They have a good write up and the links are good.
[Galaxy 3 General] matej30:
please help me i lose my imei !! how can i fix it? :(:(:(
[Galaxy 3 General] divzzen:
are you sure?

are you really sure you lost the imei? check again by trying *#06#. what does it say?

reply soon.
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
If so, root your phone (if it isn't), use "root explorer" or "super manager" to browse to your efs partition (hidden files must be visible) and check if there is .nv_data.bak and .nv_data.bak.md5 if so, just delete the files nv_data.bin and nv_data.bin.md5 they contain bad imei and will be replaced by their .bak files on next reboot.
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
Is that really all you have to do?

Sent from my Lestatious v1.4.5.1 Galaxy 3 FROYO
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
Normally yes, at least it works that way on sgs. And if the bak files are there it should work here also.
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
Will the .bak files be created again?

Sent from my Lestatious v1.4.5.1 Galaxy 3 FROYO
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
They get created when the originals get overwritten, u delete the originals and they get recreated by copying the bak... so the bak files are not touched at all
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
Ahh. That's cool. Good to know. Thanks! I'll hit the thanks button once on a computer.

Sent from my Lestatious v1.4.5.1 Galaxy 3 FROYO
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
Remember it is not confirmed working on g3 yet. But you could check the content of the efs partition, or even do a backup of the files there and delete the originals to see if they get restored.
[Galaxy 3 General] Kaleptik:
Will do!

Sent from my Lestatious v1.4.5.1 Galaxy 3 FROYO
[Galaxy 3 General] matej30:
I do this and stil no imei, didnt see nv_data.bin.md5, nv_data.bak , nv_data.bak.md5 just nv_data.bin. What can i do ?

sory for my bad english
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
Did u enable your filebrowser to show hidden files? Did u backup the files u deleted?

There is another thread about restoring imei, check that method...
[Galaxy 3 General] matej30:
Which methot ?
[Nook Color General] jim-c:
Folks, I am trying to root my NC for the first time. I am following the instructions found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=942424.

I cannot get WinImage to write to the disk. I downloaded auto-nooter-3.0.0. It is about 125 Meg when unzipped. I open Winimage just fine, and point to the .img file. When I try to do the "Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image", it asks me for a VHD file. I checked all the folders I installed, and cannot find a .vhd file anywhere.

I did point it back to the image file and it says it cannot write it because the file is in use...

I also tried the alternate windows application, Win32ImageWriter. No good. It errors out as well. Gives me an undocumented error code: error 8.

There must be something wrong with my setup, but I cannot figure out what it is. I have a brand new MicroSD card, 8GB. The card is visible in windows explorer and it shows empty...

Any help would be appreciated.

Jim
[Nook Color General] n1bsbri:
Error 8 means you have to run win32imagewriter as administrator.
[Nook Color General] subcan:
Using Win Image 32

Jim,

EDIT: use whatever version of Clockwork Mod that is recommended for the purposes that you are trying accomplish. The one I listed below may not work with what ever you are doing.

I had similar issues when I started to use it, also.

The following is info from another post I made on installing a rom to the Nook. Formatting the XD card with SD Formatter 3.0, and then using version 0.1 of Win Image seemed to be the answer.

A) Download the following software to your PC/MAC for formatting your XD card. This is the best one that I have found.

SD Formatter 3.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC:

- Format your XD card. This step is very important to correctly write the EXT4 compatible bootable SD recovery.

B) You will need “Image Writer for Windows”

- I found that the “0.1 (truckstop) release” worked the best. The newer version seemed to always have some problem.

- Paste the unzipped folder to you C:\ directory. Put the EXT4 compatible bootable SD recovery file in the same folder. This will help prevent issues. This software is originally intended for a Linux environment and thank you to the developer for making it compatible with Windows.

- Make sure that the chosen device is your XD card. It automatically selects the correct one, but you never know. Go to “my computer” in windows and check to see what Letter has been assigned.

- Choose the EXT4 compatible bootable SD recovery file from Image writer directory.

- Click the “write” button. This will take a few minutes to finish.

- Now you can copy misc files to the flash drive. It is ready to boot your Nook into Clockwork Mod Recovery.

They don't trust me yet on this site, so I cannot post links to other sites. The required links are in my original post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=997764

Let me know it this helps.

SUBCAN
[Nook Color General] jim-c:
Solved: cannot write SD image

solved...

Thanks to both Subcan and n1bsbri for the replies. The one that put me on the right track was N1's statement that I had to run as admin. I was running as admin, but obviously I did not have write permission. I then just tried to write something to the card using dumb old windows explorer and found that the card was write protected.

I am embarrased to admit it took me hours to find a post that highlighted the fact that on some microSD adapters you had to tape (yes, good old Scotch Tape) over the switch to get it writeable. I did that, wrote the card, and the NC booted right up.

I cannot begin to tell you how many bad words it took me to figure that out...

Thanks to both of you for your replies. I am very new at this and I know I will have more questions... thanks for getting me over the hump!

Jim
[G Tablet General] luigic81:
I can't figure out how to keep my google mail and calendar from syncing on my gtab. I went to accounts and sync, but I can't seem to do anything from there. I don't want anything from my mail, or calendar etc to sync. Any advice? Thanks!
[G Tablet General] k3an:
Normally, once you're in accounts and sync, you select your google account, then you'll get options to selects which things you want to sync (i.e. Calendar, gmail, contacts etc.)

Are you saying that you can't select the google account once you're in accounts and sync?
[G Tablet General] luigic81:
I can select my google account and see everything, but there Are no boxes to uncheck It just tells me the last time everything has synced.....
[G Tablet General] luigic81:
Oops nm I got it figured out lol
[G Tablet General] Flaco05:
Having trouble with this. How do I disable it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chefdrew:
Hey All,

I am curious about a few things...

I had a couple/few nandroid back ups that were stored on my phone, do you all only keep 1 nandroid and delete your previous backups?

I am running mikfroyo and flashed another ROM about 2 days ago, had some issues so I went back to mik. I think I may have done it in a way that nobody else does...I did it like I was flashing it for the first time, wipe everything and flash from sd card.

Should I have just did a nandroid restore? What does this actually bring back? Text, recent calls, apps?

When doing a nandroid restore should I wipe all before doing so? I would imagine the answer is yes.

And one more, before switching to any new ROM, should I always flash Caulkins Format All zip?

Thank you.