Root Rooting Droid Eris (Already on 2.1 OTA)

[aphughes88]

Hey everybody,

New on the forum. Great site though. Anyways..I had a droid eris but I have changed phones and now simply out of curiosity I want to root the phone and try some custom ROM, live wallpaper, better performance, etc. I currently have the OTA 2.1. I have found a lot of old information online about rooting the phone to go from 1.5 to 2.1 but nothing about how to do it if you already are already running 2.1. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

P.S. I have the OTA file but I got it as it came out through this site when someone posted the file..so I didn't actually get it over the air but it is the same file.

 

[namu1107]

Rooting your phone while on 2.1 is the same as being on 1.5.

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53963-guide-stock-1-5-latest-root-2-1-a.html

That will take you through the process... and I'm not too sure if its the same file. If your HBOOT is 1.47, you can root. You can check that by holding down the volume button on your phone and power at the same time. Do a battery pull to get out of that screen.

If you are able, and need help, ask around. Everyone here is really nice, and quick to respond. Also, check out the IRC chatroom and XDA website.

Happy Rooting!

 

[aphughes88]

Thanks for the quick reply!! Mine says 1.46 =(

 

[copestag]

you can root with 1.46 also.......... you can root with anything other than 1.49

 

[namu1107]

you can root with 1.46 also.......... you can root with anything other than 1.49

+1. Sry, should have specified that

 

[cmajpwc]

All Things Root (Eris) - Android Forums

This should help answer more of your questions, if you have any with regards to rooting. Good luck, I don;t have it in me to root. I'm too afraid I'll screw something up lol

 

[namu1107]

All Things Root (Eris) - Android Forums

This should help answer more of your questions, if you have any with regards to rooting. Good luck, I don;t have it in me to root. I'm too afraid I'll screw something up lol

I was worried about that too until I rooted and realized how fairly easy it was, and how truly hard it is to mess up your phone. The instructions were pretty much to the T, and as long as you have read around the forum a bit, you'll pick up on the problems that other people had, and learn where to search for the answers.

Ill never go back!

 

[copestag]

oddly enough....... Ive made some type of crack, hack, jailbreak, mod to every phone Ive had........ until this one.... Its completely within my nature to immediately root this phone...... alas..... my very first "smart" phone and the dumb thing came with 1.49 and cant be rooted

not thats just rotten luck right there

 

[aphughes88]

Hey again! So I realized that I can download that all- in- one package as I am not too comfortable with the commands. However, I am on a mac and I don't think the /bat file will run on this machine. So am I forced to do the commands since I have a mac? Thanks

 

[aphughes88]

.bat*

 

[raphifix]

.bat*

You indeed have to do the commands by hand. I have an iBook G4, so that precluded me from even using the Android SDK on my machine because it's x86 only. If you don't plan on pushing/pulling files to/from your device or doing anything besides trying different ROMs, I would consider using a friend's Windows computer to root and then uninstalling the SDK after you're done with the all-in-one script. Just my thoughts...

 

[doogald]

Hey again! So I realized that I can download that all- in- one package as I am not too comfortable with the commands. However, I am on a mac and I don't think the /bat file will run on this machine. So am I forced to do the commands since I have a mac? Thanks

This thread should actually be moved to "All Things Root".

The Mac is actually easier, as you don't have to worry about that pesky USB driver install. Very important: these instructions assume that you have an Intel based Mac. If you have a Macbook, Macbook Pro, an iMac or Mac Mini purchased after 2006, you should be all set. You can check for sure by clicking the Apple menu item at the top left on Mac OS, choose "About This Mac", and look for the Processor; if it says "Intel", you are ready to use these instructions.

Here are the instructions from the guide in the All Things Root subforum, with some of my comments interposed, to help with Mac: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53963-guide-stock-1-5-latest-root-2-1-a.html

(I will also credit erisuser1 in another thread, starting with this post, for the much-easier Fastboot method of installing the Recovery image):

A. Pre-requisite: Android SDK

1. Visit this page to download the SDK: Android SDK

2. is unnecessary on a Mac. Java is already on OSX; there is nothing to worry about here.

3. Extract the .zip file from the Android SDK download. Copy the folder "android-sdk-mac_86" that is extracted to the Documents folder off of your Home directory. There will be instructions later that assume that this is the location.

4. and 5. are unnecessary with a Mac

6. Put your phone into USB debugging mode: Settings > Applications > Development > check USB Debugging

7. Connect your phone via USB to your PC. Do not mount the SD card as a disk drive.

8. and 9. are unnecessary with a Mac.

10. You can test to make sure everything is working by going to the Terminal. In the terminal Window, type the following commands:

cd ~/Documents/android-sdk-mac_86/tools
./adb devices

(Note the period slash at the start of that command: you will be using that periodically with these commands, so watch for it.)

You should get a response like this:

* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached 
HTxxxxxxxxxx	device

If you see this, you are ok so far. Keep the Terminal open.



I. Rooting your phone (the easiest part)

1. Download this file: PB00IMG.zip (md5: 63eacc5ede3b179f95dc22d8ef585f94)

[on a Mac, you can check the MD5 hash of any file from the Terminal. If you copy that PB00IMG.zip file to the tools folder in the Android SDK folder that you moved to your Documents folder earlier, you can get the MD5 with this command at a terminal prompt:

openssl md5 pb00img.zip

You should do this for all of the files that you download, to make sure that they are correct and completely downloaded.]

2. Place PB00IMG.zip onto the root directory of your sdcard.

3. Power down your phone.

4. Hold Volume Down + Power On. This should bring you to a screen saying "HBOOT" and some other stuff. Wait for it to load the image, and it will say Push Activate. Push the trackball button to continue. The process will take around 5-10 minutes. The first time your phone boots up it will take a lot longer than normal.

5. Your phone is now rooted.

6. I've added this: at this point, the root image is no longer required, and you should erase PB00IMG.zip from your SD card, or at the very least rename it.


II. Installing Amon's recovery image

1. Download Amon's Recovery image from here: Download Amon's Recovery image from here: HTC Droid Eris ROM Site ... ory=Extras (the 1.6.2 version). Copy this file - recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img - also into the Tools directory. (the 1.6.2 version). Copy this file - recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img - also into the Tools directory in the Android SDK folder. Check the MD5 hash with

openssl md5 recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img

It should return:

MD5(recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img)= e3932991f097993602af3c7a4b61a4f8

2. Download the HTC Fastboot Tool for Mac. It's here: HTC - Developer Center . Download the file "fastboot-mac" - you'll see it part way down the page, under "Fastboot Tools" - unzip it, and copy the "fastboot-mac" file to the tools folder in the SDK, which should be home/Documents/android-sdk-mac_86/tools

3. Power off the eris and connect using USB. When you restart it, hold down the send key and press power to start it up in what is called Fastboot mode. The screen should actually have, highlighted in red, FASTBOOT USB. (It should also say, at the top, S-OFF, and on the second line HBOOT-1.49.2000, which definitely means that you have root.)

4. In the Terminal, enter this command:

./fastboot-mac devices

And it should answer with something like:

HTxxxxxxxxxx	fastboot

5. If so, here is the command that will add recovery:

./fastboot-mac flash recovery recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img

It should come back with something like:

sending 'recovery' (3834 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY

6. Success! You now have a recovery partition installed on your phone. You can press Volume Down on the phone to go back to Hboot mode. The phone should say, in green, "<VOL UP> Recovery" in the middle of the screen. If so, press Volume Up, you get the skateboarding androids, then a green text on black screen "Android system recovery". (In the future, you can access it by running "adb shell reboot recovery" or by powering off your phone, holding "Volume Up + Power On")

Now, you can continue on with the guide, substituting the ROM image of your choice with what is in the initial guide.

I suggest Ivan's Eris Official 1.0, which can be downloaded from here: HTC Droid Eris ROM Site (the one called Eris_Official_1.0_OC.zip). Just replace that name in the instructions that continue in the guide.

III. Installing the new rooted ROM

1. Download the rom here: eris21official-root.zip

2. Place the file eris21official-root.zip on the root of your sdcard

3. Reboot your phone into recovery mode.

4. Go to Wipe, and do a wipe of data/factory reset, as well as dalvik-cache wipe.

5. Go back to the main menu and select "Flash Zip from SDcard"

6. You should see eris21official-root.zip. Select it. Press the trackball to flash it.

7. That's it! You're now running the latest version of the root rom. You will use the same process in this section most likely to flash future updates to the root rom, so remember how to do this method with the recovery partition.

 

[Houstatlanavegas]

I would or we would be in the same boat but I have a regular windows vista PC anyone got something for that??

 

[aphughes88]

Thanks a lot doogald! But how to I drop the root file onto my sd card if it is not mounted?? It says in the first step to make sure that I the sd card is not mounted to the computer. Ughh such a noob haha

 

[doogald]

Thanks a lot doogald! But how to I drop the root file onto my sd card if it is not mounted?? It says in the first step to make sure that I the sd card is not mounted to the computer. Ughh such a noob haha

Go ahead and mount it to copy the file there from the Mac, but when the copy is done, eject the drive from the Finder, on the Eris use the Notification for USB to disconnect the disk drive - and you should be all set.

 

[James0615]

hey thanks for the information i can't wait to have my droid eris rooted. I started the tutorial but when I went to check to make sure everything was working in the terminal window mine said
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached

but there was no HT and then a number after it just stopped at the list of devices attached and then there was a blank line.

 

[James0615]

I started this tutorial but when I went to check to see if all was in order in the terminal window i didn't get a ht and then a number after the list of devices. it just said list of devices and then nothing after that. I just want to make sure I get everything right before proceeding. thanks again for the tutorial.

 

[OfTheDamned]

I'm going to move this thread since it will probably be better served in the root section.