I know there are several threads on these topics already, but being redundantly helpful, I took the time to create a single guide with all the above information in one place. I mean, why not?
The guide covers:
Root via unrEVOked3
Titanium Backup
Wireless Tether
AdFree
nandroid
boot animations
removing unwanted apps
custom ROMs and kernels
Completing restores from Titanium and nandroid backups
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Originally Posted by iowabowtech
This thread is sticky material IMO.
We have enough stickies in this forum as is, so I can't really do anything ATM (Big guys upstairs don't like having too many stickies in one forum). And since those guys beat him to the punch, I'll give them their shine for now. If anyone feels like this is a drastically better guide than the two already stickied, PM me and we will discuss it. I will look further into it if you feel strongly about it.
Edit: However, you guys are free to bump this thread to keep it near the top.
Brothers and Sisters of androidforums, I hereby declare this post of thanks to necosino. Let it be known today that he has answered my question with great promptness and accuracy.
I did a nandroid backup and it seemed to go okay but at the end I got:
"No /sdcard/ .android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sdext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum..."
then the backup finished. Is this supposed to happen and that's why peeps use Titanium backup in addition to backup their apps?
I did a nandroid backup and it seemed to go okay but at the end I got:
"No /sdcard/ .android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sdext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum..."
then the backup finished. Is this supposed to happen and that's why peeps use Titanium backup in addition to backup their apps?
That seems odd. Do you have a stock SD card or a different one? Is it full, or is there room? You'll need about 300-400MB depending on what you have on your phone. When you boot the phone normally does the SD card get mounted?
Before seeing your tutorial I had already installed the USB Drivers, and they are in My Documents. I'd like to follow your tut step by step, because right now:
-Unrevoked does not do anything, so I assume it doesn't recognize the phone
-Old method "exec ‘/system/bin/sh’ failed: No such file or directory (2)" doesn't cycle in.
-And step 5 in the second way to start Old Method doesn't happen. I get no SD Card error messages.
How can I uninstall those drivers off the phone so I can start from scratch?
Amazing. I did it on another computer with the unrevoked3.exe. XP didn't want to do it.
If I hook it up to my XP, although I rooted it using a Vista, will I lose root access?
Also, if I were to purchase a larger SD card will I need to reroot the phone?
I'm not the most tech savy person, so I'm learning as I go.
I'm trying to remove some bloat and when I go to the mount /system, how do i run adb shell?
When i type it into cmd i get ('adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file)
Thanks again for the tut, I'll be donating.
Last edited by aust10n; July 16th, 2010 at 01:34 AM.
Amazing. I did it on another computer with the unrevoked3.exe. XP didn't want to do it.
If I hook it up to my XP, although I rooted it using a Vista, will I lose root access?
Also, if I were to purchase a larger SD card will I need to reroot the phone?
I'm not the most tech savy person, so I'm learning as I go.
I'm trying to remove some bloat and when I go to the mount /system, how do i run adb shell?
When i type it into cmd i get ('adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file)
Thanks again for the tut, I'll be donating.
Congrats on getting rooted!
Connecting your phone to a different computer or using a different SD card will not cause you to lose root. The only way you could loose root now is by an OTA update, or if you specifically flashed your phone to return to stock.
You have to install the android sdk. In the downloads section of the guide you can get the first link (the zip file) or download it directly from Google: Android SDK | Android Developers
If you download from google, unzip the directory "android-sdk-windows" to c:\ and rename it "sdk." Then run sdk-setup.exe
That seems odd. Do you have a stock SD card or a different one? Is it full, or is there room? You'll need about 300-400MB depending on what you have on your phone. When you boot the phone normally does the SD card get mounted?
I have an upgraded card. 16gb sandisk class 2. There's plenty of room on it for the backup so that's not the issue.
Since I got this card it's been a little inconsistent. Sometimes when I reboot the phone the card won't read properly and I'll have to remount it. Or after the phone has been connected to my computer used as a disk drive the card will take forever to read after i unplug it. The other day I reformatted the card and restored all my data on it and that seemed to help but it still doesn't seem like it should all the time. You think I should try the nandroid backup again and see if the results change?
I have an upgraded card. 16gb sandisk class 2. There's plenty of room on it for the backup so that's not the issue.
Since I got this card it's been a little inconsistent. Sometimes when I reboot the phone the card won't read properly and I'll have to remount it. Or after the phone has been connected to my computer used as a disk drive the card will take forever to read after i unplug it. The other day I reformatted the card and restored all my data on it and that seemed to help but it still doesn't seem like it should all the time. You think I should try the nandroid backup again and see if the results change?
It sounds like the card is flaky. Now that you've formatted the card try doing a backup again. If it doesn't work, try it on a different card.
If it works on a different card I'd exchange the one you have for a new one.
Connecting your phone to a different computer or using a different SD card will not cause you to lose root. The only way you could loose root now is by an OTA update, or if you specifically flashed your phone to return to stock.
You have to install the android sdk. In the downloads section of the guide you can get the first link (the zip file) or download it directly from Google: Android SDK | Android Developers
If you download from google, unzip the directory "android-sdk-windows" to c:\ and rename it "sdk." Then run sdk-setup.exe
adb is in the sdk\tools directory.
Have sdk installed. How do I now run adb in the cmd prompt? it is giving me errors. everything i try is no recognized.
Have sdk installed. How do I now run adb in the cmd prompt? it is giving me errors. everything i try is no recognized.
You have to get to the tools directory from the command prompt.
If you put the sdk folder in the C:\ drive you get there by typing
cd\
Then your prompt will say "C:\"
type "cd sdk\tool"
Then your prompt will say c:\sdk\tools\"
Remember "sdk" is the directory where you put the sdk that you downloaded. If you put it somewhere else you need to go to that directory, and then tools.
In other words, if you saved the SDK directory to your desktop it would be
c:\users and settings\username\Desktop\sdk\tools
If you saved it to you program files directory it would be
c:\Program Files\sdk\tools
etc.
You need to know where you saved the sdk folder that you pulled out of the zip file.
Now that unrEVOked v3.1 has been released, which fixes the communication error with windows systems, I've removed the old method of rooting from the guide.
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Now that Unrevoked has released a simple root process, the "complete guide to rooting" methods are not needed. With that reasoning, I am unsticking them and resticking this thread in its place as this now holds more value.
However, at the moment your page that the link goes to doesn't work. Any help or a mirror link would be great for those occasions when this happens. Thanks.
However, at the moment your page that the link goes to doesn't work. Any help or a mirror link would be great for those occasions when this happens. Thanks.
Hunter
Sorry if it was down - I'm supposed to have redundant servers and cached backup service as well...
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