Updated: [08/31/2011] Inspire 4G, rooting - Windows/Linux/OSX

Great Tutorial. Worked great the first time. I'm running Ubuntu linux 64 bit so needed something like this. I flashed the leedroid rom and now have "H" above the signal level bars (HSDPA) on ATT. my D/L speed is 5693kbps and up is 1258k.
The only problem I have is only my son and grandson think this is cool, the rest say Hunh??

thanks again!
Tony

 

hi,
i just rooted my htc inspire with your instructions and now i cant use the internet on it. i really need it so please help me!

 

I too have virtually no internet access after downloading this root. Just to make sure, I re-rooted and the problem is still prevalent. PLEASE help

 

I rooted my phone this morning with this and it was so easy! It took maybe half an hour (along with flashing CM7)

Funny enough after having Sense I feel my phone is plain and boring haha. So I'm downloading a couple Sense roms and will see how they work.

Great job!

EDIT: I do feel I've spoken too early, CM7 is gorgeous... A lot of beautiful little touches that make it very nice to use.

 

Rooted last night using this method, and it worked well! It took a while to get everything downloaded and working correctly, but after that it went relatively fast. Thanks Talderon!

I'd never rooted before, and am still pretty new to all of this, so getting a ROM was a bit trickier. I can see that there are tons of them over at XDA, but it is difficult to tell which are good, stable packages. I went with Android Revolution HD ([ROM] Android Revolution HD 5.1.10 | High Quality & Performance | OC | Sense/no-Sense - xda-developers). It seems good so far, although I don't like how the apps scroll a page at a time. Occasionally it seems laggy. The whole theme thing is a bit confusing - to load a new theme, do you have to re-flash your phone? Also, the authors of ARHD state "After every ROM update please check first, if the theme or mod you used to flash is still compatible with current ROM version." Is there a central site for ROMS, themes, etc where users can easily check these types of things? Right now it all seems pretty disorganized.

 

Step 5 of your Lee rom instructions has a bad link.

I'm going to do this soon, thanks for the guide.

 

I ended up doing it last night, everything went well. Thanks for the guide

 

Hi, I have a question.. What happens if I dont uninstall HTC Sync? Is it REQUIRED to perform the root? It a program that I want to keep.

First. Prerequisites.

1. Download HTC Sync and install it. It will install the drivers and get you all set up. Then, you can Uninstall HTC Sync, but do NOT uninstall the drivers.

***answered*** was able to root with htc sync installed and off

 

I didn't uninstall, I just made sure it wasn't running. Everything was fine.

 

this all sounds really cool but i have one big question.... What is rooting?

sry for my noobiness

 

hi, i am unable to get the link on part 4 to work
4. This one greatly improves the I/O performance of the phone: http://leedroid.ftp.rshost.eu/DHD-Addons/GB_IO_Performance_Patch.zip

 

hi it is actually 3 links. 4 5 and 6 that i can not get to download in the above post

 

Hi,
I have done everything that the "effin-manual" has told me to do. Its not working from the start... I run hack as administrator and the black window pops up and disappears in a flash...so I'm thinking its running in the background or something but I get to the step with the CID and it says that the little administrator step is supposed to get that for me...and something about a goldkey--goldcard? (IDK)

I'm really good at following directions especially when it comes to cell phones. This is making me feel really stupid. is there an easier way or Better directions?

Thanks to anyone who can help me.

Nikki--HTC Inspire 4G since March 2011

 

Running non-intel mac OS 10.5.8. Trying to root Inspire 4g. It mounts in hard drive mode but its not detected in charge only mode with usb debugging checked. I ran "diskutil list" and its not listed there. So I'm thinking that is the reason why hack-ace.sh (I am using hack kit v11a) script fails to detect the phone. The original thread mentioned that there are usb drivers for Linux/Mac OS systems. Are they part of HTC Sync? If so, isn't HTC Sync just for Windows? Where does MAC users get the drivers from? It's funny how difficult this is becoming when both the phone and the comp is running Linux under the hood. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

I do however can get the CID for my mmc0 using goldcard helper. Can I proceed ahead to completing the rooting process by simply finish making the goldcard? Or will I need the scripts?

 

Just wanted to say thanks for the great tutorial. Was able to get a friend rooted and ROMed over the phone. Having some issues with his market but XDA should have an answer.

It wound up being my fault. Fixed and running. Thanks again.

 

I Changed this Please help with the custom Rom part of this

 

Sorry I'm reading a lot of info andim figuring it out I think. A little more detail on the custom Rom would be appreciated

 

okay im getting rather frustrated, ive tried rooting the phone following the steps above i get the cid #get the gold card put it in the gcimg folder press 2 it reboots i dont have to go through setup then onto step 3 i for 1 dont understand the (type exit and enter at the # prompt) 2 once i go through step 3 my phone turns off and all of a sudden my phone stays black only with a picture of a phone with a red triangle and exclamation mark i dont know what im doing wrong. please help??

EDIT: this is the part when running number 3 it gets to before the phone does its thing

"please wait booting recovery to patch downgrade romroot/sound/locale
ECHO is off please wait"