you had to do phone reboot, i had to computer reboot... somehow that worked for me, dunno why :/
*Root the Slide & Other HTC Devices*6/15/2010* How-To Updated 8/14/2010
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i could never get mine to show up under adb devices... thered be nothing under listed devices.... BUT i figured out what worked for me... i hit loop than like a half sec later hit power to restore and viola my phone hwed up.. unplugged replugged and i showed up as a restore! root went great! thanks!!
sorry for what might b a dumb question. but i cant find my android sdk tools folder. can some1 pls help. i would b happy to buy some1 a beer or 2 to help me root my slide. 6/17/10 sms text me at 786-250-2750.
Ballsy putting you number on the Internet!
If you downloaded the Android SDK, it comes as a ZIP file. Just tell it to extract to your C: drive, and it will create a folder called android-sdk-windows (assuming windows, replace windows with whatever your system is). Within that folder, will be a "Tools" folder.
dont put your number, if i didnt like you, i would probably spamm you a million timess
dont put your number, if i didnt like you, i would probably spamm you a million timess
dude, edit post and delete number immediately... if you get some people pm'ing you saying they'll help, then i'd say give your number to them if you feel inclined, otherwise dotn put it on an open forum like this... bad idea
I've been trying for over three hours. I've rooted many differant phones before and never ever had a problem. Im surprised at all the little tricks everyone has tried. Sdcard from pushing enter and phone power button at certain intervals from HTC such and PDA net.... its over whelming. I'm just going to wait till there's a new way of rooting. Or atleaet till the instructions are clearer. Thanks.
This was much easier to do on a Mac than on Windows! Could have been because of the driver issues discussed earlier, not sure. I spent about 2 hours trying to do this on my PC, switched to Mac and had it done in 15 minutes!
Thanks a Ton guys!!
Thanks a Ton guys!!
Thanks to mesajoejoe using his guide, I have gotten root as well. Everyone is having trouble like i did to get ADB to connect and your phone to show up offline. I have gotten it to show the phone offline for a second then dont show up in adb devices no more. I am going to show you how i did it using mesajoejoe's guide but my way of doing it. Please read carefully:
Note: I used windows 7 to do this method. Vista should be the same and XP will be slight different. This guid is assuming if you have the adb driver installed on your pc already.
1. While your phone is on, please go to settings-applications-development and turn usb debugging on.
2. Download USBDeview and install it. (Google is your friend) and while u are downloading, unplug the usb from your phone.
3. Start USBDeview (Run it as administrator!! VERY IMPORTANT!!) and delete all android drivers and mytouch drivers, anything relating to android.
4. Plug phone into computer and let the computer auto install drivers etc...
5. Turn the phone off. Power on the Slide into the bootloader by Holding Down ( Volume Down + Power Button ) After it does its little thing your computer will beep and start auto installing drivers.
6. Now select Recovery from the bootloader menu after it is done doing its thing completely 2 things will happen:
a. In device manager you will now have something under disk drives called T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide USB Device
b. In USBDeview, a new driver will pop up in part of the list with the same name.
7. This driver in USBDeview will show Yes under the Connection column. This needs to be disabled (In my case, there were 3 of them. Only choose and disable the one that says mass storage as the device type and Yes under connected). Right click on it and choose Disable Selected Device. After a few seconds it should no longer say Yes under connection column (If USB Deview freezes which it did for me after disabling it, just go to Device Manager and check under disk drives if T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide USB Device isnt there. if this isnt there, then go to the next step).
8. Now follow the guide from eugene to install root but with the step that tells you to run loop do it this way instead:
a. As soon as you reach into bootloader run the loop command.
b. As soon as the bootloader finish searches for an image file. scroll down to recovery and press power before the bootloader shows hboot USB.
c. As soon as you reach into recovery, it should show your device as offline and stay there not showing u for a second and dissapearing. If it doesnt show you at all, leave it to loop and restart your phone into bootloader and try again.
This is how I got mines to catch ADB and finally root my mytouch slide after 2 long hard days. Please show some feedback if it works for you.
Note: I used windows 7 to do this method. Vista should be the same and XP will be slight different. This guid is assuming if you have the adb driver installed on your pc already.
1. While your phone is on, please go to settings-applications-development and turn usb debugging on.
2. Download USBDeview and install it. (Google is your friend) and while u are downloading, unplug the usb from your phone.
3. Start USBDeview (Run it as administrator!! VERY IMPORTANT!!) and delete all android drivers and mytouch drivers, anything relating to android.
4. Plug phone into computer and let the computer auto install drivers etc...
5. Turn the phone off. Power on the Slide into the bootloader by Holding Down ( Volume Down + Power Button ) After it does its little thing your computer will beep and start auto installing drivers.
6. Now select Recovery from the bootloader menu after it is done doing its thing completely 2 things will happen:
a. In device manager you will now have something under disk drives called T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide USB Device
b. In USBDeview, a new driver will pop up in part of the list with the same name.
7. This driver in USBDeview will show Yes under the Connection column. This needs to be disabled (In my case, there were 3 of them. Only choose and disable the one that says mass storage as the device type and Yes under connected). Right click on it and choose Disable Selected Device. After a few seconds it should no longer say Yes under connection column (If USB Deview freezes which it did for me after disabling it, just go to Device Manager and check under disk drives if T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide USB Device isnt there. if this isnt there, then go to the next step).
8. Now follow the guide from eugene to install root but with the step that tells you to run loop do it this way instead:
a. As soon as you reach into bootloader run the loop command.
b. As soon as the bootloader finish searches for an image file. scroll down to recovery and press power before the bootloader shows hboot USB.
c. As soon as you reach into recovery, it should show your device as offline and stay there not showing u for a second and dissapearing. If it doesnt show you at all, leave it to loop and restart your phone into bootloader and try again.
This is how I got mines to catch ADB and finally root my mytouch slide after 2 long hard days. Please show some feedback if it works for you.
This was much easier to do on a Mac than on Windows! Could have been because of the driver issues discussed earlier, not sure. I spent about 2 hours trying to do this on my PC, switched to Mac and had it done in 15 minutes!
Thanks a Ton guys!!
How did you stop the loop.sh?
I was also a victim of the whole "driver issue loop thing" heres a helpful hint. Make sure adb is't running twice. Notice when you run the loop command it says " daemon started successfully" . If you start the loop process again seeing that your device didn't show up as offline make sure to open task manager and end the task of any other instance of "adb" running before you try the loop command again... .Just my 2cents
There's another thread here about getting the adb loop to stick http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6850668
Also, after a couple of days of trying it out, I came up with the following suggestion if anyone would be willing to try it let me know if it works: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6850668&postcount=59
Also, after a couple of days of trying it out, I came up with the following suggestion if anyone would be willing to try it let me know if it works: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6850668&postcount=59
OMG!!! I EFFIN HAVE ROOT!!!!! I was like "i'm just going to attempt it once today" and it worked on the very first try!!!! I dunno what It was but I went to tmobile and I got a completely new sd card so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it but it finally worked!!!
You nailed it.
This was the problem for me. It ended up being easiest to restart my computer between the ADB steps. That cleared the way for the daemon.
(At one point I pulled up the running processes and there were like 20 instances of adb, no wonder it wouldn't work)
anybody ran into an issue where the android 1.0 drivers wont installl? i didnt realize i was this much of a noob
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1I just replaced the update.zip and started in recovery, launched update.zip and all seemed fine. I already had root though and I have my sd card full so I can't try a2sd or sdparted yet but it seemed to run fine.
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