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Root Rooting the Event

Sinner67

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Feb 10, 2011
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Conway, AR
I picked up this phone on Thursday because the Rise I had started boot looping. I was able to root my phone by following the same steps as on the below link.

Ok, so the link I posted here is now dead. So instead, I am posting a step by step tutorial. Keep in mind that I did not come up with this procedure. The thanks all go to other people. :)

1) Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled by going to Settings>Developer options. USB debugging should be checked.

2) Download Poot from the following link: http://db.tt/0HqxEURT. I downloaded this from my phone and my phone put it in the Download folder on my SD Card, but you can download it onto your computer and copy it to your SD Card.

3) Download Ministro II from the Google Play store.

4) Download Superuser from the Google Play store. There are several, but the one that works for me is the one created by CHAINDD.

5) Run Poot-debug(W100).apk from your SD Card. Run the Poot application. There is a button at the top called "Press here to poot".

6) Poot pushes su to xbin.

7) Open Superuser application. Slide the screen to the right, going into the "info" tab. Under the "su binary" section, hit the "tap to check for updates" and update binary.

8) If done right you now have root. You can check by installing an app such as Titanium Backup and opening it. It should request SU permissions.

If you have any problems with this, restart your phone and run Poot and Superuser again.

I did end up with one problem where applications were not requesting SU anymore. I just went into Superuser and updated the su binary again to the newest version.
 
Iam guessing iam no Android Pro but have a Rise that were gonna find eventually the Rise & Hydro & Event are gonna be basically the same phone with 1 special aspect about each the Rise a slider Keyboard, The Hydro Water Proof & The Event with more Internal Storage the Rise has 1gb avialable the Hydro i also believe has 1gb avialable Internal storage & the Event i believe has 4gb Internal Storage, so we should all help when One of us sides do Figure out how to bypass or unlock the Bootloader,So good Luck guys & let me know if my Theroy is Correct cause itll be good in some ways too have more help & bad cause ill have the bad news of telling you that they got both Hydro & Rise Bootloader locked down tight, and its the rom which I think I heard both rise & hydro actually have 2gb but we only have access to 1gb

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Well, per Titanium Backup, my Event shows Internal storage of 1.05 GB, and a Ext. SD card storage of 1.30 GB. My SD card does not have another partition on it. I have yet figured out how to access that 1.30 GB, other than plugging the phone into my computer. I don't seem to be able to use the space any other way.
 
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I picked up this phone on Thursday because the Rise I had started boot looping. I was able to root my phone by following the same steps as on the below link.

Ok, so the link I posted here is now dead. So instead, I am posting a step by step tutorial. Keep in mind that I did not come up with this procedure. The thanks all go to other people. :)

1) Make sure you have USB Debugging enabled by going to Settings>Developer options. USB debugging should be checked.

2) Download Poot from the following link: http://db.tt/0HqxEURT. I downloaded this from my phone and my phone put it in the Download folder on my SD Card, but you can download it onto your computer and copy it to your SD Card.

3) Download Ministro II from the Google Play store.

4) Download Superuser from the Google Play store. There are several, but the one that works for me is the one created by CHAINDD.

5) Run Poot-debug(W100).apk from your SD Card. Run the Poot application. There is a button at the top called "Press here to poot".

6) Poot pushes su to xbin.

7) Open Superuser application. Slide the screen to the right, going into the "info" tab. Under the "su binary" section, hit the "tap to check for updates" and update binary.

8) If done right you now have root. You can check by installing an app such as Titanium Backup and opening it. It should request SU permissions.

If you have any problems with this, restart your phone and run Poot and Superuser again.

I did end up with one problem where applications were not requesting SU anymore. I just went into Superuser and updated the su binary again to the newest version.

Poot failed during the run, error 68/69 - Daemon materialized, I believe. Asked me to restart.
 
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Worked for me on the second try. First time I restarted by holding the power button. Appeared that it didn't work. I ran poot again and this time shut down and restarted. All good so far. Bought my phone on the the 24th. First android and first root. Came from a 3g on 4.2.1. A little outdated. lol

On edit: I too for an error. Think it was 64 about a daemon. If you Google it it leads to a thread here that says its OK do the restart.
 
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Tried downloading POOT from the link supplied. Got error 404. Must I sign up for DropBox to access the download?

Edit: DUH nevermind. I tried typing the link as shown into my phones browser. Didn't work. Yet when I actually just click the link it does work.

TADAAAAA! worked, simple as pie. Now can anyone recommend a free wifi tethering app?
 
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