Getting Root [Think Tank]

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This thread is created so everyone can just meet in one thread and solve a common problem, which is to root the HTC Vivid.

Let's start by looking at the problem. Temp-root is possible but superuser disappears from system folder.

What about putting superuser is the data/app folder?

Would not having the bootloader unlocked have any issues with rooting?

Sent from my T-Mobile G1 using XDA App

if you download superuser from the market it goes in /data/app/ thats not the problem. the problem is the su binary, and busybox. you could probably symlink them, but the symlink wont stay. the problem with the locked bootloader, is that every time you reboot it wipes away any configurations you have done to anything in /system

What if /system is already mounted at boot, that way the bootloader will be denied access to it since it is already mounted.

Edited: Never mind. Thats not a good idea. The OS runs of the /system folder. So mounting it will stop the OS from running.

Originally Posted by Pirateghost

if you download superuser from the market it goes in /data/app/ thats not the problem. the problem is the su binary, and busybox. you could probably symlink them, but the symlink wont stay. the problem with the locked bootloader, is that every time you reboot it wipes away any configurations you have done to anything in /system

Originally Posted by mohsinkhan47

What if /system is already mounted at boot, that way the bootloader will be denied access to it since it is already mounted.

not sure i know how that would be possible....

the bootloader from htc doesn't work either?

Originally Posted by mohsinkhan47

the bootloader from htc doesn't work either?

AT&T users dont have any way to unlock the bootloader right now. The Raider can get an unlocked bootloader by using the HTCDev.com website.

if you have an unlocked bootloader, you can have permanent root.

The latest script upload from rpendrik seems to have made the su binary properly sticky. I'm going on 14 hours right now and it hasn't disappeared.

have you guys tried this out:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1296916

or

entering this in from a computer.

"fastboot oem unlock"

Originally Posted by mohsinkhan47

have you guys tried this out:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1296916

or

entering this in from a computer.

"fastboot oem unlock"

that is how we have been getting temp root.

fastboot oem unlock will not work. we have to get the unlock code from HTC, and they wont give it to us, likely because of AT&T

as of right now, this very instant, there is no way of unlocking the bootloader and achieving permanent root (that we have discovered)

THIS ONLY APPLIES TO THE AT&T VIVID

the Rogers RAIDER is unlockable and the permanent rootable.

Could be completely off in thinking this, but:

Would it be possible to compare multiple Rogers/Bell identifier tokens, against their corresponding unlock.bin files (as they're both the same hex lengths)
and see if an algorithm can be found? And apply said algorithm to ATT Vivid's and see if we could generate our own unlock_code.bin from our identifier tokens?

Just the way I was looking at it, sorry if I'm completely off base.