To downgrade your HBOOT to go back to 2.2 visit this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255474
This will allow you to flash 2.2 to perm root the phone
If you wish to help with perm root status for Android 2.3.3, please visit this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218580
Thanks to everyone in this post who has helped get this far. You will need to have the Android SDK installed and working knowledge of ADB and basic file system structure.
Major help from minneyar
TEMP ROOT Instructions:
You now have temp root. Disregard any notification about outdated SU binary. Root will go away if you reboot. If you reboot your phone you can obtain root again by just running the following
I haven't found a way to re-root after rebooting without connecting to a PC
This will allow you to flash 2.2 to perm root the phone
If you wish to help with perm root status for Android 2.3.3, please visit this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218580
Thanks to everyone in this post who has helped get this far. You will need to have the Android SDK installed and working knowledge of ADB and basic file system structure.
Major help from minneyar
TEMP ROOT Instructions:
- Download http://tinyw.in/1lI
- Unzip if required and put in your ADB folder
- Launch command prompt and navigate to your ADB folder
- adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp/
- adb shell
- chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
- /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF (if this doesn't work, try rebooting phone)
- Download these 2 files here and put them in your ADB directory: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14927732#post14927732
- exit back to command prompt if you aren't there already
- adb push Superuser3-beta1.apk /data/app/
- adb push su-3.0-alpha7 /data/local/tmp
- adb shell (should now see # instead of $)
- cd /data/local/tmp
- chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7
- ./su-3.0-alpha7
- cd /
- mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs /
- rm vendor
- mkdir vendor
- mkdir vendor/bin
- cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su
- chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su
You now have temp root. Disregard any notification about outdated SU binary. Root will go away if you reboot. If you reboot your phone you can obtain root again by just running the following
- adb shell
- chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
- /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF
- adb shell (should now see # instead of $)
- cd /data/local/tmp
- chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7
- ./su-3.0-alpha7
- cd /
- mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs /
- rm vendor
- mkdir vendor
- mkdir vendor/bin
- cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su
- chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su
I haven't found a way to re-root after rebooting without connecting to a PC
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