Root First post. Going to root soon.

[char561]

Before you try anything like that, Have you rebooted the phone recently? If not I would reboot and try one more time

 

[eurotrash323]

Your supposed to type the command from the # prompt.

# adb shell mount.........<hit enter>
adb push.........<hit enter>
adb push flash.....<enter>
adb .........

 

[bigdaddyblues]

power off
power on
correct?

 

[char561]

yes or type adb reboot when you are in the cmd prompt

 

[char561]

and you're not supposed to do it from the "#" prompt you are supposed to do it exactly like the directions say. When you are at the "#" prompt it is entirely shell commands and you dont want that for the push commands

 

[bigdaddyblues]

that worked.
do I need to do the next step?
4. Success! You now have a recovery partition installed on your phone. You can access it by running "adb shell reboot recovery" or by powering off your phone, holding "Volume Up + Power On"

or do I go to the next process.
III. Installing the new rooted ROM

 

[jreed2560]

install a rom first them reboot into recovery.

 

[char561]

now download (if you havent already) "eris21official-root.zip" and mount your phone and put it on the SD card (still .zipped) and then turn the phone off and then turn it on in recovery mode (vol up + power key) and follow the guide

 

[bigdaddyblues]

Tried to reboot into recovery mode by holding "Volume Up + Power On"
Doesn't work??

 

[nova77]

try rebooting into recovery from adb on the command prompt

 

[eurotrash323]

and you're not supposed to do it from the "#" prompt you are supposed to do it exactly like the directions say.

Crap.....really sorry about that. I've been deleting too many apps lately and gotten used to the #. My bad....


What does it do when you do Vol up + Power? Are you holding the two buttons down together for a second or two?

 

[bigdaddyblues]

held for 2 seconds nothing. Power is the right red phone?
To install other roms like evil eris, etc.. I would do the same process?

thanks

 

[MJL]

held for 2 seconds nothing. Power is the right red phone?
To install other roms like evil eris, etc.. I would do the same process?

thanks

You need to have the rom zip saved to the root of your sd card so that you can flash it with the recovery image first. If not, youll just boot to the recovery and have to reboot the phone to save a rom to your card. I'm assuming you know to power DOWN the phone first, then boot into recovery mode with the vol up+pwr?

 

[char561]

@euro, no worries. We all forget things sometimes.
@bigdaddyblues, have you been able to boot into recovery yet or do you still need help?

 

[bigdaddyblues]

I got into recovery through adb. Running fine.
Next thing to try is some roms. Do you have a favorite. I see the poll has eris v2 on top. I think I saw at xda that jcase has a v3. Have you tried that yet?

Thanks again for all the help. I been taking notes...

 

[char561]

I really like aloysius and sense-able. If you go to grdlocks site (android.grdlock.net) you can directly download whichever one you want from there.

 

[eurotrash323]

If you don't really care for Sense - Gridlocks Vanilla ROM is very fast and stable. I've been running it with either Helix or Nexus launcher and in the past three weeks only had maybe three random re-boots......which take less than a minute to complete.
No dialer lag either.

Congrats on getting it rooted, you'll have a lot of fun now, If you don't go completely mad with all of the available options!

 

[char561]

You should also (if you havent already) put the Swype keyboard on your phone which is available here [Mod] BlackSwype - Themed Swype (Updated 4/28 - CMEdition Skin!) - xda-developers in different colors