Root Anybody feel like helping an idiot root his eris?

no-idea said:

ahhh ok... that kinda sucks. i need a new laptop! haha

oh man, sorry about all of this. guess im going to start over on my wifes win. xp laptop.

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BigBeefy said:

it seems to be working for him. he is able to use the commands to find his md5 hash correctly.

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no-idea said:

ok, sdk is on her computer. now im stuck on step number 8


8. Right-click My Computer > Properties, and go to Device Manager. You should see a device with a yellow exclamation next to it, this is your phone (if you don't see it you probably forgot to enable USB debugging mode)

debugging is on and i dont see it. there is "android usb devices" is that it? under that is "my htc"

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Open up a "Command Window" by using the Windows Start Menu:

Start ... Run ... (then type in the little box "CMD", and hit enter)

A black-background command window will pop up.

The next thing to do is to Change Directories ("CD" command) to the tools folder of your android SDK

Type into that window the commands

c:
cd \
cd \Andro*

find the "tools" folder underneath there and "CD" to that. It might help to use Windows Explorer to find the tools folder, so that when you are typing in the name of that folder you know what you are looking for.

Findally, when the prompt shows that you are in the tools folder, the command prompt will look something like this:

C:\Android....blah...blah\tools> (or perhaps "C:\Android...blah...blah\Tools>" I'm not using a Windows box)

at that point you can try typing

adb devices

and you should get some output that shows your device identity (if your are connected)

If you see a string that starts with "HTA...", then so far so good.

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no-idea said:

thanks, ill give it a shot.

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