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Root Rooting the Motorola Admiral

Hi guys. Just wondering if you experienced any problems after rooting?

Occasionally when I lock my screen, wait a few minutes, and then unlock it, the screen glitches rapidly just before the lockscreen appears. I have a feeling that it might be related to renaming the camera/camcorder shutter sound files. It's minor but definitely noticable.
 
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No problems with the screen here. The only buggy behavior I've seen is 2-3 sontaneous reboots since I've owned it. No idea if rooting is responsible, but it certainly could be.

Yeah mine has rebooted while I'm using it about 3 times in total since I rooted it. Even before rooting, it randomly rebooted itself every now and then, just like my old Droid Pro. I think it's just a Motorola thing.

I really wish there were some custom ROMs, MotoBlur is unacceptable.
 
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This procedure worked for me:
How to get your phone back on the upgrade path...

Now to find a WiFi Thethering app that works....

Edit: On my Motorola Admiral

Things I did to setup *before* following the link abaove.

On my PC:
Install Android SDK
Install phone drivers. (The phone auto-ran a Moto Sync tool when I first plugged it in to my PC, which seemed to install these for me.)

On my phone:
Enable USB Debugging
Enable Non-market apps
Set USB connection to "None" when I plug it in to computer.

On my PC, I then ran "adb devices" in a CMD prompt to verify the debugger could see my phone. attached to this post is a screen shot of this CMD showing my device after running that command.

I then used the Windows-only 1-click-exploit in the link I posted above, from a CMD prompt. I'm not totally sure, but I think I may have had to run it twice. I think the first time it didn't find my phone, or had to restart the adb service or something.
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GOT ROOT !!!

TY TYVM

Best regards,
-boggsie
 
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I am trying the Root from MDW. When I run ./zerg I cannot go any farther. It say I don't have permission. Here is the log from my CMD prompt. Please help. Thanks Please can someone show us what the log shold look like to the letter so we know what a successful root looks like.


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Maggie>adb push zerg /data/local
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Maggie>cd root

C:\Users\Maggie\root>adb push zerg /data/local
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
3177 KB/s (22776 bytes in 0.007s)

C:\Users\Maggie\root>adb push su /data/local
3617 KB/s (22228 bytes in 0.006s)

C:\Users\Maggie\root>adb push Superuser.apk /data/local
4028 KB/s (754980 bytes in 0.183s)

C:\Users\Maggie\root>adb shell
shell@cdma_pax:/$ cd /data/local
cd /data/local
shell@cdma_pax:/data/local$ chmod 777 zerg
chmod 777 zerg
shell@cdma_pax:/data/local$ ./zerg
./zerg

[**] Zerg rush - Android 2.2/2.3 local root
[**] (C) 2011 Revolutionary. All rights reserved.

[**] Parts of code from Gingerbreak, (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew.

[+] Found a GingerBread ! 0x00016118
[*] Scooting ...
[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...
[*] Sending 189 zerglings ...
[-] Hellions with BLUE flames !
[1] + Stopped (signal) ./zerg
shell@cdma_pax:/data/local$ adb shell
adb shell
adb: permission denied
[1] Illegal instruction ./zerg
shell@cdma_pax:/data/local$
 
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