Root Rooted. What next?

UKNewbie · Oct 1, 2013

Bazcabs said:
just copy the key then right click in the DOS box and select 'Paste'

It turns out it isn't quite that simple. You need to edit the properties of the DOS box in the header border.
However, even pasted the Beta key doesn't work :thinking:

UKNewbie · Oct 1, 2013

I have to be honest and say that this whole experience is turning out to be so problematic I am on the point of giving up and just living with the limitations of an unrooted phone

I have wasted nearly a week trying to wade through the various instructions to no avail.

I would like to thank the various people who have tried to help me

Hadron · Oct 2, 2013

I know it is possible to paste the beta key because people have done it. But I'm not a Windows user, so if there's some trick to getting it into that environment I'm afraid I don't know what it is.

nicka3200 · Oct 2, 2013

nicka3200 said:
An alternative plan of attack would be to follow this guide which will give you root & a custom recovery (Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 which still works well for the Desire).

There is an easier way to get root but it won't give you s-off. But many of us managed without s-off for quite some time. What do you hope to get out of rooting? I presume it's more storage. You can have that without s-off but you'll need to partition your sd.

If you follow the guide linked in the above quote you will find that you've most of the steps already.

UKNewbie · Oct 2, 2013

nicka3200 said:
There is an easier way to get root but it won't give you s-off. But many of us managed without s-off for quite some time. What do you hope to get out of rooting? I presume it's more storage. You can have that without s-off but you'll need to partition your sd.

If you follow the guide linked in the above quote you will find that you've most of the steps already.

HTC Sync
Hboot Drivers
UnrEVOked 3.21
If Software versio for ARA (2.xx.415.x) use: UnrEVOked 3.32
If your Erase size = 40,000 use:Amon-Ra 2.0.1

Grrrrr OK I am willing to try one more time but I am falling at the 2nd fence!
In the above list of necessary downloads the Hboot drivers link is dead :mad:

OK I have managed to get round that dead link, have installed the drivers, have downloaded unRevoked and run it. I get an error message that reads: Failed to push recovery. Terminating. Recovery image ClockworkMod Recovery. I have tried both as a user and an Admin and get the same result

Hadron · Oct 2, 2013

Do you not have the hboot drivers already, from trying revolutionary? Should be the same ones, because the revolutionary guide tells you to use the download link from the unrevoked guide.

UKNewbie · Oct 2, 2013

Hadron said:
Do you not have the hboot drivers already, from trying revolutionary? Should be the same ones, because the revolutionary guide tells you to use the download link from the unrevoked guide.

LOL Our postings crossed.

I have found the Hboot drivers. Actually the link for the Hboot drivers in the Guide is a dead link.
I have even managed to get unrEVOked to run
I have loaded the recovery image. The wording on unrEVOked is as it should be.
I have checked that USB Debugging is enabled and the USB cable is connected in USB Tether mode

Nothing seems to be happening
The Guide says to watch the phone screen. What should I see?

UKNewbie · Oct 2, 2013

After about 10 attempts at rooting with unrEVOked it at last started working only to stop with an error saying it couldn't find the backup CID

All the FAQ says is it may just be as well to downgrade using teppic74's downgrade tool (GSM ONLY), to 2.1 and try with an older unrEVOked version.

I really am losing the will to live on this whole rooting thing. It gets more and more complicated

Hadron · Oct 2, 2013

I'm unsure why it's so complicated. As you'll have gathered, most of us found that one or other tool worked pretty much straight off (I had to run unrevoked twice, after the first attempt failed with some error, but the second was fine).

I don't think you want to go to the downgrader tool - I doubt we've anyone left who ever used that.

nicka3200 · Oct 3, 2013

Both methods worked first time for me (i had to reroot after a motherboard replacement), however I did have the hboot drivers. installed from the outset.

I would try the revolutionary method again now that you have the hboot drivers. That could make all the difference.

UKNewbie · Oct 3, 2013

Hadron said:
I'm unsure why it's so complicated. As you'll have gathered, most of us found that one or other tool worked pretty much straight off (I had to run unrevoked twice, after the first attempt failed with some error, but the second was fine).

I am obviously missing something very basic as, reading on the rest of the forum, everyone else seems to have no trouble

I shall have one more go later today and then, if I can't get it to work, I shall give up

UKNewbie · Oct 3, 2013

What exactly is the backup CID unrEVOked is looking for?

Hadron · Oct 3, 2013

TBH I've no idea. "cid" in HTC-speak means customer id, i.e. region/network the phone was sold to. What a backup cid would be isn't obvious. Have to assume it's related to how it cracks bootloader security and installs a customer recovery, and that it would mean something to the developer.

Can I just ask precisely what hboot version and android software version you currently have? Just to be sure of compatibility.

UKNewbie · Oct 3, 2013

Hadron said:
Can I just ask precisely what hboot version and android software version you currently have? Just to be sure of compatibility.

I am using Android 2.2.2 and Hboot 0.93.0001

Hadron · Oct 3, 2013

Ok, your hboot is fine, but 2.2.2 is probably not going to work with unrevoked. The thread title for that is "2.2.1 or lower", and we'll have done that for a reason. Unrevoked is an old tool, and hasn't been updated for the latest software because the developers moved on to revolutionary. So I suspect it's got to be revolutionary now.

UKNewbie · Oct 3, 2013

Hadron said:
Ok, your hboot is fine, but 2.2.2 is probably not going to work with unrevoked. The thread title for that is "2.2.1 or lower", and we'll have done that for a reason. Unrevoked is an old tool, and hasn't been updated for the latest software because the developers moved on to revolutionary. So I suspect it's got to be revolutionary now.

Ah, that may explain it.

Unfortunately using Revolutionary returns to the original problem where I couldn't get the Beta key to be recognised

nicka3200 · Oct 3, 2013

UKNewbie said:
Ah, that may explain it.

Unfortunately using Revolutionary returns to the original problem where I couldn't get the Beta key to be recognised

Hadron, would the previous lack of hboot drivers have an impact on this?

Hadron · Oct 3, 2013

No idea - I don't know how Revolutionary validates the beta key. If it compares the key with some information obtained from the phone it might.

UKNewbie · Oct 3, 2013

Ok I am officially quitting this whole rooting thing

I have no idea what I am doing wrong but it has beaten me

Many thanks to Hadron and Nicka3200 for all your help

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