[Root] SimpleRoot 1.5 (Revised - Linux/Windows)

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Here you can find the revised version of SimpleRoot. It has somewhat major changes that blend in the combination of Wes and Eugene's findings together and separate from one another. As Wes has silently left the community for the Vibrant (as I understand it - please clarify if you want Wes) I have been unable to contact him.

Consequently I am posting revised version of SimpleRoot for the people whom are new to the community or people who want a more streamlined process that uses Eugene's Clockwork update.zip and Wes' SimpleRoot package. Using Eugene's update.zip fixes problems with gaining root access once you have flashed your ROM (SuperUser APK was apparently missing in Wes').

It's been generally accepted that SimpleRoot is fairly unnecessary once you flash the ENG nbh. There was controversy over the ENG nbh, but Eugene has disproven those opinions. For those of you who still want to use SimpleRoot, here it is.

Download: For Linux v1.5 (4shared).
Download: For Windows v1.5 (4shared).

Changes (for v1.5), they are as follows:

• Switched from Wes' update.zip to Eugene's update.zip to eliminate problems gaining root access (SuperUser APK was apparently missing in Wes') after the ROM was flashed.

Changes (for v1.4.1 - WINDOWS ONLY), they are as follows:

• Apparently the usb_driver package I had from the Android SDK didn't have the HTC Espresso's hardware IDs present. Added those so it will allow you to use the packaged drivers for device installation.
• Added @ECHO off into rootme2.bat.
• These changes do not affect the Linux package since the Linux scripts work and Linux doesn't need a special driver.

Changes (for v1.4), they are as follows:

• Changed a lot of the text formatting for the Windows scripts, including fixing line feeds, quotation marks, command echoing, and grammatical changes.
• Added the most recent copy of the Android SDK's Windows USB driver since users who have never installed the driver need an easier way to get it. (Especially if they are on limited broadband)
• Added the USB driver as a requirement in the Windows script since it is a fairly important requirement.
• Added a .sh extention to the Linux script filenames.
• Added a ./ in front of "adb" in the loop.sh script so it uses the adb in the local directory of the SimpleRoot extracted archive versus erroring out in a loop (in the likely event the user doesn't have adb installed system-wide). This preserves the consistency already in the other scripts.
• Packaged the Linux files into a subdirectory in the tar.gz file versus extracting the files into the current directory (which is highly irritating ).
• Bumped version number to 1.4.
• Added myself into the credits.
• Modified the Windows Readme file to reflect the directions provided from the script.

Thanks nbetcher!

As I understand it Wes is working for both devices now, not sure though.

Quick question this worked perfect the first time but when i tried to put a rom on my sd card from clockwork it wouldnt see it when i clicked install from sd so i rebooted and i saw superuser on stock and i couldnt get back into clockwork since then and now i cant re root again it keeps saying device not found any ideas