It took about 2 minutes to load the PB00IMG.zip then a minute to check it and then it took me to the regular HBOOT screen. It had 4 options. And
<Volume Up> Previous
<Volume Down> Next
<Power> Select
There must have been something else on the screen besides that - those are just instructions on which keys to use to navigate. But don't worry about that for the moment.
Just curious, have you looked at this
thread with example pictures to see what the screens look like that you should be expecting to see?
There are three possible outcomes trying to load a PB00IMG.ZIP file that you could experience:
(1) The "Checking" step succeeds, meaning that the .zip file is "intact", but this then is followed by a "Main version is older!" message.
(2) The "Checking" step succeeds, meaning that the .zip file is "intact", and it also passes version checks, so a screen
similar to this one appears:
(3) The third alternative is that the file does not even unpack correctly - meaning that it was corrupted or truncated somehow when it was transferred to your SD card. The HBOOT just gives up at that point, and drops you into a menu.
This third alternative seems to be what happened to you - apparently, three times, given your comment below about trying three different zip files.
I used 3 PB00IMG.zips so far, not sure if theyre different, I used 2 from the 4fuzz.net and one from xda.
[SIZE=+3]STOP[/SIZE]
Do not proceed any further - you are racing into this without understanding some fundamentals. Worse yet - if you go out onto the internet and start grabbing files willy-nilly, you are likely to end up with a "Leak-{V1, V2, V3}" ROM on your phone, which will prevent you from getting root - possibly forever.
The first fundamental rule to obey is this:
Always check the MD5 signature of a file after you have transferred it or downloaded it from the internet.
I was trying not to waste keystrokes previously, and yet I still typed (up above):
md5sum: 63eacc5ede3b179f95dc22d8ef585f94
when mentioning
which PB00IMG.ZIP file you should be using.
I mentioned it BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT.
What's an md5sum useful for? If you compute the same value that the originator of the file says it should have (using your copy of the file on your computer), then you can be absolutely certain that the file you have is not only not corrupted, but it identical to the one the originator had - every last byte of it, no more, no less. If only a single "bit" in the file changed, a different "md5sum" value would be reported.
So here's what you need to do: download a tool from
Cnet's Downloads that will allow you to check the md5sum signature of files you download.
As I said before, and now three times, the md5sum signature of the PB00IMG.ZIP file that you are using should be:
63eacc5ede3b179f95dc22d8ef585f94 PB00IMG.ZIP
Don't proceed any further until you have done just that - checked the file you downloaded on your own computer by calculating its' MD5 signature. On your next post, report what you did in this regard and what happened. While we're at it, I want you to check the md5sum of every "PB00IMG.ZIP" file you downloaded, and report those values as well.
And note also, that if the md5sum computes correctly, then there is absolutely no need to go searching around the internet for a different copy of the file; not only are you sure you have the right file in hand, but the odds of a different files of the same size having an identical MD5 checksum value are essentially zero.
(BTW, I gave you a link up above for the correct PB00IMG.ZIP file - search for GrdLock)
Now, let's look at the possible causes of file corruption when transferring PB00IMG.ZIP files from your PC to the SD card on your phone.
The most likely culprit is that you rebooted the phone, or disconnected the USB cable before the files were even transferred, and they were truncated - so the check failed no matter
which version of PB00IMG.ZIP you were using.
Those files are BIG - 100+ Mbytes! And the SD card in your phone is a relatively slow device - it should take nearly a minute or more to copy the file from your PC to the Phone (class 2 SD card). So first, you need to wait a minute or two before you reboot or disconnect.
Second, If you are using a Windows machine, it performs what is called "write cacheing" - which means that Windows "acts" like it has copied your file instantaneously, and whatever command you use to copy the file seems to happen very fast... but it continues to write the file to the SD card "in the background".
So,
wait a minute or two after you do the file copy before you do anything - let it do its' job.
Second - you should always be in the habit of using the "Safely Disconnect Devices" control in your Windows Tray when it comes time to disconnect the "mount" of the SD card in the phone to the PC. (The icon in the PC/Windows "tray" for this looks like a little green arrow with a pcmcia card or similar). This control is aware of whether or not there is still writing going on - it will warn you if that is the case, and when it's all clear, will say "Safe to Disconnect" or similar.
If you want to look at what I've written here and try things on your own, then feel free; but reading between the lines of your posts, I see a certain degree of casual impreciseness and disregard for explicit instructions already given, which suggests to me that perhaps you should not be attempting to root your phone. For all the amazing things that computers can do, their one downfall is that you can not provide them instructions which are "sort of correct", and expect good results. You have to get every last detail correct, or woe follows.
I'm not saying that to be mean - honest.
eu1