[Q] help rooting! puhhhllleeeeaaassseeeee

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ROK here's the story. I rooted my DINC when I first got it two years ago, well my girlfriend now wants hers rooted.

I read the wiki and all that. But everytime I try it gives me an error message after the first phone boot after trying to gain root access... error can't root is your firmware too new?

Now my steps are.

Plug phone in.
Install phone drivers. (I think this may be where i went wrong)
run unrevoked3
It does its stuff and reboots phone into hboot continues to do it's thing.
Reboots phone again.
Starts asking fir root.
Then I get the error.

Can you tell what I'm doing wrong?

Do I have to install the hboot drivers on my windows 7 machine when the phone is in hboot?



Help!

Ok first,I don't believe unrevoked supports the newest firmware update, but there are other methods...

second, if unrevoked completes successfully, try manually flashing the recovery, if that completes successfully, then make a backup and flash a new rom..

If it boots up however, try downloading superuser and install it, if it works, should be good to go


Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

Originally Posted by networkmagician419

Ok first,I don't believe unrevoked supports the newest firmware update, but there are other methods...

second, if unrevoked completes successfully, try manually flashing the recovery, if that completes successfully, then make a backup and flash a new rom..

If it boots up however, try downloading superuser and install it, if it works, should be good to go


Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

Its 2.2

And it wont get root access. So no SU.. I installed rom manager and it says no root access. And I can't get into recovery I believe.

Originally Posted by BossJ

Its 2.2

And it wont get root access. So no SU.. I installed rom manager and it says no root access. And I can't get into recovery I believe.

Are you s-off? If so flash cwm recovery thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip. http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/C....0/PB31IMG.zip. Then if you can access recovery use it to flash the su binary, installing the su app does not install the binary. You can go to preferencec in the su app and try installing it from there, but it usually fails. You can get the lates flashable one here. http://dinc.does-it.net/SuperUser/SuperUser_3.0.7.zip

Originally Posted by cmlusco

Are you s-off? If so flash cwm recovery thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip. http://dinc.does-it.net/PB31IMG.zip. Then if you can access recovery use it to flash the su binary, installing the su app does not install the binary. You can go to preferencec in the su app and try installing it from there, but it usually fails. You can get the lates flashable one here. http://dinc.does-it.net/su.zip

No. When I launch rom manager it says I need root. I'm not s-off.

My question is.. when I install the windows hboot drivers... does the phone need to be in hboot? I installed the hboot drivers when the phone was plugged in USB bur the phone was loaded into android 2.2

Originally Posted by BossJ

No. When I launch rom manager it says I need root. I'm not s-off.

My question is.. when I install the windows hboot drivers... does the phone need to be in hboot? I installed the hboot drivers when the phone was plugged in USB bur the phone was loaded into android 2.2

Root and s-off are two different things, and you dont need rom manager to access recovery. However if your s-on you dont have a custom recovery to flash things in anyways.

Yes when you install the drivers you need to be in hboot to get the correct drivers.

If you ran unrevoked and it compleeted successfully you should have root and s-off. I would make sure the drivers are right, and then run unrevoked again.

Originally Posted by cmlusco

Root and s-off are two different things, and you dont need rom manager to access recovery. However if your s-on you dont have a custom recovery to flash things in anyways.

Yes when you install the drivers you need to be in hboot to get the correct drivers.

If you ran unrevoked and it compleeted successfully you should have root and s-off. I would make sure the drivers are right, and then run unrevoked again.

OK. Unrevoked always failed. So. Must be the hboot drivers installing incorrectly.

Originally Posted by cmlusco

Root and s-off are two different things, and you dont need rom manager to access recovery. However if your s-on you dont have a custom recovery to flash things in anyways.

Yes when you install the drivers you need to be in hboot to get the correct drivers.

If you ran unrevoked and it compleeted successfully you should have root and s-off. I would make sure the drivers are right, and then run unrevoked again.

So when I install the hboot drivers while the phone is in hboot... do I run unrevoked when thephone is still in hboot? Or do I restart the phone?

Originally Posted by BossJ

So when I install the hboot drivers while the phone is in hboot... do I run unrevoked when thephone is still in hboot? Or do I restart the phone?

Yes restart the phome. Run unrevoked with the phone booted to the os.

Originally Posted by cmlusco

Yes restart the phome. Run unrevoked with the phone booted to the os.

Thanks so much for your help! Finally got it all taken care of!

It's been soooo long since I've rooted any phone! BUT I finally got it!

Wooo

Thanks again!