Well, you do seem to have the G2 hboot on your DZ, and if you have a DZ ROM then I'm not too suprised if weird things are happening.
You may be able to flash the hboot itself via fastboot.
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Well, you do seem to have the G2 hboot on your DZ, and if you have a DZ ROM then I'm not too suprised if weird things are happening.
You may be able to flash the hboot itself via fastboot.
If you have got adb setup and working, then fastboot should be setup too. What I was thinking of was the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img", where boot.img is the correct hboot. HOWEVER, I have not tried this and am not 100% sure if the "boot" partition that fastboot can flash is the actual hboot partition, or something else. So I would like someone else with more knowledge to confirm this before you try it.
If your not rooted download Launcher Pro from the market, if you are rooted, someone correct me if I am wrong but shouldn't he be able to use a file manager or adb to deleted the apks?
Hey Guys, Newb here,
I followed the steps from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928160&highlight=gfree+verify and things seemed to work properly. I checked by booting up and S-OFF was in the first line, so its rooted. I am just wondering if there is a way to check that sim is unlocked now? I've been trying to find a step by step guide to using gfree verify, but couldn't find one.
EDIT: I was able to get verify to work, everything is successfully rooted and unlocked!
I followed the steps from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=928160&highlight=gfree+verify and things seemed to work properly. I checked by booting up and S-OFF was in the first line, so its rooted. I am just wondering if there is a way to check that sim is unlocked now? I've been trying to find a step by step guide to using gfree verify, but couldn't find one.
EDIT: I was able to get verify to work, everything is successfully rooted and unlocked!
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I just tried rooting my G2, following the wiki guide and everything seemed to work correctly until I rebooted my phone. My phone rebooted just fine, but when I tried to run the verify it didn't work, and after checking something else it seems like it didn't work.
I followed the instructions to the letter, the only exception being that I used
instead of
because I'm already on an unlocked phone (on AT&T for awhile yet and I don't mind EDGE because I'm near a wifi 95% of the time).
I'm a bit hesitant to try it again until I can figure out why it didn't work.
Phone ROM is 1.22.531.8 if that's any help.
Edit: Seems I need to downgrade my radio firmware, but what I'm reading says that wipes the phone. Is there anyway to get a full ROM backup with temp root?
I followed the instructions to the letter, the only exception being that I used
Code:
./gfree -s off
Code:
./gfree -fI'm a bit hesitant to try it again until I can figure out why it didn't work.
Phone ROM is 1.22.531.8 if that's any help.
Edit: Seems I need to downgrade my radio firmware, but what I'm reading says that wipes the phone. Is there anyway to get a full ROM backup with temp root?
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.Can anyone help? Visionary hasn't worked for me not once yet. Either it completes the process and goes back to the option scren, Superuser is installed, yet Terminal denies me su, or it freezes on a black screen. -_-
why is this stickied now that we have gfree/rage method??? no wonder people are having so many root issues.
Help please
After following the directions on the Wiki to PermaRoot my T-Mobile G2 http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#How_To_Get_R.2FW_Access_.28Permanent_Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29 I got to the last step and it tells me that I should get an error message containing "mkdir: /system/xbin already exists", which I did, it then goes on to say that the rest of the script should run fine and to give it some time...How much time should I give it? I'm not getting any extra lines of code after that error message...I've even ignore this and tried to verify using gfree's verify software but I keep getting denied permission in the second line of code in the shell. Please help me!!!!
After following the directions on the Wiki to PermaRoot my T-Mobile G2 http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#How_To_Get_R.2FW_Access_.28Permanent_Root_.2F_.22Permaroot.22.29 I got to the last step and it tells me that I should get an error message containing "mkdir: /system/xbin already exists", which I did, it then goes on to say that the rest of the script should run fine and to give it some time...How much time should I give it? I'm not getting any extra lines of code after that error message...I've even ignore this and tried to verify using gfree's verify software but I keep getting denied permission in the second line of code in the shell. Please help me!!!!
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2Thanx to blackprince310 that posted a tutorial video on youtube on how to perm root your g2..so now there's a video for all of us.. Subscribe to his youtube channel.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU9zn_BEth4
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At the time of this post, yes, you can still root your G2. I imagine that at some point the G2 will receive the additional security of the 1.72 Desire Z OTA, but hopefully by that time the security will have been cracked.1
First off, on adb, have you tried this guide - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865685 ? That tells you where to get the necessary drivers.
I realise adb won't help you right now though.
Your hboot version sounds odd, sounds like you have the G2 eng hboot even though you have a DZ, I wonder if that's why it's boot looping ?
Can you get into hboot through starting with the phone off, holding down Volume Down, then holding Power until it switches on ? If so you may want to try flashing a new ROM from your SD card. The one at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=820410&highlight=707 sounds the closest to what you're running at the moment. This is an Asian ROM, right ? If you download that and call it "PC10IMG.zip" and place it in the top (root) folder of your SD card, then boot into hboot it should find it and ask if you want to flash it. However, beware that this will wipe all your existing settings/data etc.
If you can get into hboot then there are also some different recovery options if it is an ENG hboot, e.g. trying to flash new stuff via fastboot from your PC. Though you will need to get adb working for that (which enables fastboot too) - see the linked guide above.
