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Is it possible to root the SGS3 (international version) without access to a Windows machine? I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and can connect to the phone using adb, but no access to a Windows machine.
alistair.cunningham said:
Is it possible to root the SGS3 (international version) without access to a Windows machine? I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and can connect to the phone using adb, but no access to a Windows machine.
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No, not yet possible afaik. You need a computer and Odin or Heimdal. Heimdal seems to be working on linux i heard, but not sure. Search google for heimdal for linux.
alistair.cunningham said:
Is it possible to root the SGS3 (international version) without access to a Windows machine? I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and can connect to the phone using adb, but no access to a Windows machine.
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this is what might help u out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWMlU10ir3I
gee2012 said:
No, not yet possible afaik. You need a computer and Odin or Heimdal. Heimdal seems to be working on linux i heard, but not sure. Search google for heimdal for linux.
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Thanks, search for heimdal for Linux returned a link on galaxys3root.com (sorry, XDA is refusing to let me post the full link) and I downloaded the image from downloadandroidrom.com. This includes heimdall_1.3.2_i386.deb. So now I'm working on this. So far, every time I reboot into recovery I get the stock <3e> recorvery console that refuses to load the unsigned ClockworkMod image, but will keep working on it.
alistair.cunningham said:
Thanks, search for heimdal for Linux returned a link on galaxys3root.com (sorry, XDA is refusing to let me post the full link) and I downloaded the image from downloadandroidrom.com. This includes heimdall_1.3.2_i386.deb. So now I'm working on this. So far, every time I reboot into recovery I get the stock <3e> recorvery console that refuses to load the unsigned ClockworkMod image, but will keep working on it.
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Well good luck, see the link above from vegeta1. :fingers-crossed:
No joy unfortunately. I use heimdall to upload the recovery image:
heimdall flash --recovery /tmp/recovery.img
and it says "RECOVERY upload successful" but then when I reboot to the recovery menu, it's the stock Android one not ClockworkMod. Any ideas?
No I am sorry, not familiar with ubuntu or heimdal. I use Odin.
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Do you have usb debugging enabled on your phone?
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Solved! The cure is to run:
heimdall flash --no-reboot --recovery recovery.img
then reboot by taking the battery out and putting it back in again. I then held down volume-up, power, and home as it booted, though I don't know if this last part is necessary.
I'm now gloriously rooted! Thanks for all your help.
Happy for you
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alistair.cunningham said:
Solved! The cure is to run:
heimdall flash --no-reboot --recovery recovery.img
then reboot by taking the battery out and putting it back in again. I then held down volume-up, power, and home as it booted, though I don't know if this last part is necessary.
I'm now gloriously rooted! Thanks for all your help.
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Thanks! I was stuck here for a while until I found your method. I now have one rooted SG3, cheers
CWM working?
idoa01 said:
Thanks! I was stuck here for a while until I found your method. I now have one rooted SG3, cheers
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I got mine rooted the same way, but despite clockworkmod being in the recovery, it doesn't run unless I repeat the whole process... Did you get it installed permanently?
Just need to install framaroot app and runed aragorn exploit and reboot ... one click root ...
Easyest method ... no counter ... no triangle ... just rooted
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I have looked but I cannot find anything on how to get fastboot for Nook Tablet working (and yes I do have CM9 0.05.1) and I want to flash recovery but it is not recognizing my Nook. All it has on device manager is Other Devices/ Acclaim with an exclamation point. Please help
Hi, have you installed adb succesfully in your pc previously?
If yes then the next thing you need is fastboot.exe file, if not then start with that first then fastboot.
You can find what you need here, also if you search in my threads (link in my signature) you can find a tutorial about how to install and use ADB.
~ Veronica
Acclaim
I have the same challenge. I have ADB working successfully (and have used Veronica's guide to repartition my NT - thanks again). Yet when I use Cyanoboot and start Fastboot my device shows up in Other Devices as Acclaim and none of the USB drivers I have pointed to get installed. It isn't mission critical that I solve this but it would be nice from a knowledge base to understand what I am missing in case I ever need to use Fastboot. It seems to be a much easier tool to change the installed Recovery image than ADB. Any help would be appreciated.
adb works for me. i currently have cyanoboot, when i try to go to start fastboot to install a new recovery, i notice in my device manager there is an uninstalled driver called "Acclaim". Already tried the NT drivers for it and it didn't work. Any ideas? I recently flashed succulent's cm7 image which had a cwm v5.0.x and i want to flash cwm v 5.5.x. Already tried using indirect's NT recovery flasher and no go on that...
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adb works for me. i currently have cyanoboot, when i try to go to start fastboot to install a new recovery, i notice in my device manager there is an uninstalled driver called "Acclaim". Already tried the NT drivers for it and it didn't work. Any ideas? I recently flashed succulent's cm7 image which had a cwm v5.0.x and i want to flash cwm v 5.5.x. Already tried using indirect's NT recovery flasher and no go on that...
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Can someone upload fastboot mode driver for NT for me? I turn my NT into bootloader but my PC can't "see" NT so I can't fastboot recovery.img.
Thanks.
Sorry for my bad English.
bingoz said:
Can someone upload fastboot mode driver for NT for me? I turn my NT into bootloader but my PC can't "see" NT so I can't fastboot recovery.img.
Thanks.
Sorry for my bad English.
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when doing fastboot do you see "acclaim" under other devices in device manager? I had to install another set of drivers in order for fastboot to work.
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ShinnAsuka said:
when doing fastboot do you see "acclaim" under other devices in device manager? I had to install another set of drivers in order for fastboot to work.
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My PC search for driver but I can't install. Would you please send me link to "set of drivers in order for fastboot to work"? Thank you very much
bingoz said:
My PC search for driver but I can't install. Would you please send me link to "set of drivers in order for fastboot to work"? Thank you very much
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you need to find the id of the nook under other devices acclaim. then you modify the android_winusb.inf file with those new id's and install the drivers
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ShinnAsuka said:
you need to find the id of the nook under other devices acclaim. then you modify the android_winusb.inf file with those new id's and install the drivers
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Can you explain more or upload the file already edit for me? Thank you
bingoz said:
Can you explain more or upload the file already edit for me? Thank you
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each product id is different so uploading the file isn't going to do you much good. sorey
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mamifsidtect said:
I have looked but I cannot find anything on how to get fastboot for Nook Tablet working (and yes I do have CM9 0.05.1) and I want to flash recovery but it is not recognizing my Nook. All it has on device manager is Other Devices/ Acclaim with an exclamation point. Please help
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I don't have windows so I won't comment on that. There is one thing that I never see mentioned when talking of adb access problems.
On custom roms (your case cm9 0.05.1) in settings, developer options, Android debugging should be checked to allow adb access. If not checked that may be your issue.
If I'm having adb issues and it was working previously I'll boot to cwm (5.5.0.4 version not 5.0.2 or whatever) and go from there.
You should get adb working properly, but to flash recovery you can use one of the flashable zip files while in cwm. They work for me!
Got a few minutes on a windows 7 pc (people should take their breaks at their desk). If you are using Veronicas thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22049356&postcount=1 you will find a file runmefirst.bat if you run it and follow instructions about unplugging and replugging nook it will create and setup the previously mentioned file. Do not run zergy as suggested. When it pulls device manager your exclamation should say nook. Right click it, update driver software, browse my computer, let me pick, and then choose the directory with your usbdrivers, tell it yes to use them. Do not worry about anything else from runmefirst.bat including anything else to run. You just want it to set the codes for your nt and then it is of on use.
I had adb working for my nt quickly on that windows 7 pc. It had no previous adb or usb drivers installed.
Good Luck
I got nook tablet drivers installed and it works for adb however fastboot still has acclaim!
anyone have steps how to fix this?
fastboot has no devices
nba1341 said:
I got nook tablet drivers installed and it works for adb however fastboot still has acclaim!
anyone have steps how to fix this?
fastboot has no devices
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like i said in a previous post, right click the acclaim item under other devices and look for the product id and edit the android_winusb.inf accordingly.
after that right click acclaim, update driver software, and browse for the drivers yourself. if all goes well fastboot should work. this is how i did it. not that i ever really use fastboot but its good to have just in case.
Is there any step-by-step tutorial on how to flash NT with fastboot? I have tried to search, but still could not get it work.
Thanks.
mamifsidtect said:
I have looked but I cannot find anything on how to get fastboot for Nook Tablet working (and yes I do have CM9 0.05.1) and I want to flash recovery but it is not recognizing my Nook. All it has on device manager is Other Devices/ Acclaim with an exclamation point. Please help
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Check your android_winusb.inf to see if you have the right entry for the NT -- see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35971559&postcount=13.
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Penguin101 said:
Is there any step-by-step tutorial on how to flash NT with fastboot? I have tried to search, but still could not get it work.
Thanks.
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Why not flash your NT using SD-based CWM Recovery (e.g., see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37515697&postcount=31)?
The easiest way under windows, is just choose the driver on your own, use the driver from the Android SDK (sdk\extras\google), and you will be presented with a couple of options, choose Android Composite ADB Interface.
It would, at this time to be prepared for s-off, making sure you have all htc drivers install, sdk tools and the like, have you recovery.img ready to go and your supersu zip in the proper place, don't wait to the last minute to do this, then your ready to go.
I've been working on gathering everything up. I'm unlocked so I need to relock, install update, unlock and get root back yet. I've been holding off cause I hate to give up viper and go back to stock.
Where would one start? I don't know where to get sdk....not to mention how to use it. Do you think you could come up with a list of you have the time? Every phone I've rooted has had unlock tools (unrevoked for og Inc and alpha rev for Inc 2)
Linch89 said:
Where would one start? I don't know where to get sdk....not to mention how to use it. Do you think you could come up with a list of you have the time? Every phone I've rooted has had unlock tools (unrevoked for og Inc and alpha rev for Inc 2)
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go to unlimited.io and you can get latest htc drivers and adb sdk tools too, they have links there. you can get recovery from hasoons tool. we don't have a root tool yet, it's coming.i should say s-off tool
as far as using adb and sdk tools, should be some instruction here somewhere, search the forums for it you should find it.
Thanks boss yeah I know no tool yet
Aldo101t said:
go to unlimited.io and you can get latest htc drivers and adb sdk tools too, they have links there. you can get recovery from hasoons tool. we don't have a root tool yet, it's coming.i should say s-off tool
as far as using adb and sdk tools, should be some instruction here somewhere, search the forums for it you should find it.
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Do we need root tool, or can we just flash recovery then su binary?
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jamminjon82 said:
Do we need root tool, or can we just flash recovery then su binary?
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you can't flash recovery til you either get s-off or unlocked bootloader, you can't flash SU til you have recovery, so.
Aldo101t said:
you can't flash recovery til you either get s-off or unlocked bootloader, you can't flash SU til you have recovery, so.
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I was saying once you have s-off
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I'd say get a ROM ready, once u get s-off, u can install recovery, then install a ROM.
the superuser root .zip is only needed if you plan to use the stock ROM.
I am so going to have to take my laptop to town to get to Wi-Fi to update Windows so I can root my phone.
To quote the juggernaut, "sh!t I've been ready to f!ck"
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Aldo101t said:
go to unlimited.io and you can get latest htc drivers
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Whether I try to use the drivers from unlimited.io or the ones linked by jose51197 in the automatic unlock post I can't get them to install on my computer. I'm running 64-bit Windows 8 Release Preview Version 6.2 (Build 8400). OldNut5 mentioned that it worked for him on 64-bit Windows 8 Pro, so I don't think my operating system is the problem. As soon as the installer starts running, it shows an error message which reads:
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The Driver Installer is not supported for this Operating System!
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried running it as administrator, as well as running it in compatibility mode for both Windows 7 and Windows XP (SP3), but it always produced the same error. Am I missing something obvious, or does this only work on the Pro version of Windows 8 for some reason?
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Whether I try to use the drivers from unlimited.io or the ones linked by jose51197 in the automatic unlock post I can't get them to install on my computer. I'm running 64-bit Windows 8 Release Preview Version 6.2 (Build 8400). OldNut5 mentioned that it worked for him on 64-bit Windows 8 Pro, so I don't think my operating system is the problem. As soon as the installer starts running, it shows an error message which reads:
Code:
The Driver Installer is not supported for this Operating System!
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried running it as administrator, as well as running it in compatibility mode for both Windows 7 and Windows XP (SP3), but it always produced the same error. Am I missing something obvious, or does this only work on the Pro version of Windows 8 for some reason?
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Drivers are designed to work for a specific operating system. I personally haven't been able to get a single driver for any device to work on Windows 8 that was designed for Windows 7. Vista drivers more often than not did work on Windows 7, though. Go figure.
In this thread, someone says they installed the most recent version of HTC Sync on Windows 8 and managed to get the drivers working. Try that.
EDIT: Just tried this on Windows 8 and it worked perfectly.
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EDIT: Just tried this on Windows 8 and it worked perfectly.
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Thanks a bunch! Installing HTC Sync didn't help, but this worked perfectly.
bleh, just use linux and you dont need to worry about drivers
nitsuj17 said:
bleh, just use linux and you dont need to worry about drivers
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To be honest I dual-boot my computer and primarily use Ubuntu, but the automatic bootloader unlock guide was written for Windows with a handy zip of executables and a batch script, and I didn't want to have to figure out how to properly install adb on Ubuntu as well as risk messing something up if there happens to be a Linux-only issue.
It's nice to know that it should work on Ubuntu without any need for the drivers. I assume this is how I would have to install adb. It's a shame I can't just "sudo apt-get install adb" it...
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To be honest I dual-boot my computer and primarily use Ubuntu, but the automatic bootloader unlock guide was written for Windows with a handy zip of executables and a batch script, and I didn't want to have to figure out how to properly install adb on Ubuntu as well as risk messing something up if there happens to be a Linux-only issue.
It's nice to know that it should work on Ubuntu without any need for the drivers. I assume this is how I would have to install adb. It's a shame I can't just "sudo apt-get install adb" it...
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looks like a decent guide
So not sure exactly what happened while running the lastest paranoid build. Everything was fine until a random reboot happened, said proccess stopped working and rebooted once more except for im on white screen. went to wipe data and reflash the rom but sd card has been wiped. I am s-on and cant get adb to recognize my device. Any advice please.
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So not sure exactly what happened while running the lastest paranoid build. Everything was fine until a random reboot happened, said proccess stopped working and rebooted once more except for im on white screen. went to wipe data and reflash the rom but sd card has been wiped. I am s-on and cant get adb to recognize my device. Any advice please.
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go into recovery and try turning adb sideload on then off and see if adb recognizes your device after that.
failed to open driver control: no such file or directory
when i start adb, it zooms really fast through codes and then exits.
IceAzures said:
failed to open driver control: no such file or directory
when i start adb, it zooms really fast through codes and then exits.
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Then you didn't set adb up correctly
Edit: now that I think of it you may be typing in the command incorrectly.
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Ill reinstall the sdk and drivers and ill report back.
This is the correct way right?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2131284
edit1: so to use adb im using the windows vista cmd promt correct?
edit 2: okay so we are somewhere. Adb now works. I just need to get the dna to be able to be detected. Any way i can do this?
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(double post accident)
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Get into twrp
Find to sideload option.
Select it.
Plug your phone into your computer, make sure to use usb 2.0 not 3.0.
Open up a command prompt where the rom is located.
Type adb sideload rom.zip
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Bigandrewgold said:
Get into twrp
Find to sideload option.
Select it.
Plug your phone into your computer, make sure to use usb 2.0 not 3.0.
Open up a command prompt where the rom is located.
Type adb sideload rom.zip
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So i was getting help from another member and I feel like he is getting frustrated as I am. Im running CWM 6.0.2.1 and this is what im dealing with
Device is not recognized even though i have the drivers for it. I heard USB debugging is enabled regardless in recovery I just don't know why I cant push or sideload anything even if im on install zip from sideload.
IceAzures said:
So i was getting help from another member and I feel like he is getting frustrated as I am. Im running CWM 6.0.2.1 and this is what im dealing with
Device is not recognized even though i have the drivers for it. I heard USB debugging is enabled regardless in recovery I just don't know why I cant push or sideload anything even if im on install zip from sideload.
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CWR has some issues with adb. flash latest version of twrp here:
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/dlx
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CWR has some issues with adb. flash latest version of twrp here:
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/dlx
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Do you think vista might be an interference? Im currently on waiting on device while trying to flash the recovery in fastboot
IceAzures said:
Do you think vista might be an interference? Im currently on waiting on device while trying to flash the recovery in fastboot
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nope. Vista sucks and all, but it isn't the problem here.
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Do you think vista might be an interference?
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There's your problem. "Vista"
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beaups said:
nope. Vista sucks and all, but it isn't the problem here.
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So what would you recommend at this point? Because at this rate im surprised my phone is not dead yet. Although i do see the led light in recovery mode
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There's your problem. "Vista"
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Yeah and unfortunately its all i got
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So what would you recommend at this point? Because at this rate im surprised my phone is not dead yet. Although i do see the led light in recovery mode
Yeah and unfortunately its all i got
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I'd recommend you flash twrp then adb push your rom, then flash it
Okay im going to post the steps and maybe this will be easier for all of us.
1- Flashed Paranoid
2- Flashed crpalmers boot.img in flashgui
3- Phone was good for a solid day, then rebooted.
4- After reboot phone said a lot of the services are force closing and then rebooted into the white htc screen
5- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2131284 and followed it to the T
6- phone is not being recognized in adb
7- went to flash the recovery but its waiting on device even though its in fastboot usb
Maybe im missing a driver or a step I am not sure about but hopefully that helps a bit more than posting little by little.
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Okay im going to post the steps and maybe this will be easier for all of us.
1- Flashed Paranoid
2- Flashed crpalmers boot.img in flashgui
3- Phone was good for a solid day, then rebooted.
4- After reboot phone said a lot of the services are force closing and then rebooted into the white htc screen
5- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2131284 and followed it to the T
6- phone is not being recognized in adb
7- went to flash the recovery but its waiting on device even though its in fastboot usb
Maybe im missing a driver or a step I am not sure about but hopefully that helps a bit more than posting little by little.
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Do you htc's adb drivers installed? Not just the sdk.
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Do you htc's adb drivers installed? Not just the sdk.
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I believe i have them installed, but everytime i try to install the drivers via device manager I have windows telling me its already and its latest driver installed.
Good thing though is now my device is being recognized in adb and fastboot <devices> but still having issues pushing or flashing rom
IceAzures said:
I believe i have them installed, but everytime i try to install the drivers via device manager I have windows telling me its already and its latest driver installed.
Good thing though is now my device is being recognized in adb and fastboot <devices> but still having issues pushing or flashing rom
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When in device manager , how is the unit listed? Does the listing have an yellow exclamation point in front of it?
IceAzures said:
I believe i have them installed, but everytime i try to install the drivers via device manager I have windows telling me its already and its latest driver installed.
Good thing though is now my device is being recognized in adb and fastboot but still having issues pushing or flashing rom
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Might want to unplug from the net when installing them so it doesn't look for others which driver version you installing? EDIT: also if you have a otg cable then you can put the rom on a flash drive and flash it from that.
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IceAzures said:
I believe i have them installed, but everytime i try to install the drivers via device manager I have windows telling me its already and its latest driver installed.
Good thing though is now my device is being recognized in adb and fastboot <devices> but still having issues pushing or flashing rom
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What error is it giving you when you try to push a rom.
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I just purchased the Sprint variant of the HTC One Max and decided to unlock the bootloader to root it. I followed the instructions up to the point where I have to have to run the fastboot command in CMD. The example shows the CMD changing its directory to \Android. When I try to do this, I'm given the error: "The system cannot find the path specified." I tried just doing fastboot command, but came back with "fastboot is not recognized..."
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Android SDK, Java Runtime, and HTC Sync are all installed and updated.
Thanks in advance!
bb2si said:
I just purchased the Sprint variant of the HTC One Max and decided to unlock the bootloader to root it. I followed the instructions up to the point where I have to have to run the fastboot command in CMD. The example shows the CMD changing its directory to \Android. When I try to do this, I'm given the error: "The system cannot find the path specified." I tried just doing fastboot command, but came back with "fastboot is not recognized..."
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Android SDK, Java Runtime, and HTC Sync are all installed and updated.
Thanks in advance!
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You need to run cmd prompt as admin and CD to wherever the platform tools folder is installed (part of the sdk)...
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dottat said:
You need to run cmd prompt as admin and CD to wherever the platform tools folder is installed (part of the sdk)...
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Thank you for the quick reply.
This worked, but when I attempt to run the command for the fastboot I get an error saying "The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer."
Was this something that was supposed to be installed from one of the Android SDK installs?
bb2si said:
Thank you for the quick reply.
This worked, but when I attempt to run the command for the fastboot I get an error saying "The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer."
Was this something that was supposed to be installed from one of the Android SDK installs?
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Sounds like part of it didn't install correctly. Rinse and repeat. Maybe something got hosed in your earlier attempts.
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dottat said:
Sounds like part of it didn't install correctly. Rinse and repeat. Maybe something got hosed in your earlier attempts.
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I happened to have found the file in a different folder. Should I just drag and drop it into the adt folder?
bb2si said:
I happened to have found the file in a different folder. Should I just drag and drop it into the adt folder?
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Which folder and what else was in it ?
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Which folder and what else was in it ?
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It was in the sdk\platform-tools folder.
Does the command line have to be directed to the folder containing the fastboot application file? Inside said platform-tools folder is the fastboot file as well as the ApbWinApi.dll file.
OH! I think I got it! I'll report back with final details...
Keep your fingers crossed!!!
bb2si said:
OH! I think I got it! I'll report back with final details...
Keep your fingers crossed!!!
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Lol....didn't I say platform tools the first time ? Good luck man...
Btw if you get it working you just learned one of the most important prerequisites for android modding.
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dottat said:
Lol....didn't I say platform tools the first time ? Good luck man...
Btw if you get it working you just learned one of the most important prerequisites for android modding.
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Yep! Unlocked the bootloader successfully! Now, I'm trying to Root and the instructions I'm following are good, but I'm stuck again - It says to run CMD and use the command "adb devices." It comes back with nothing found, yet, according to the instructions my phone's serial number should be listed. I placed the Superuser.zip file in the phone's storage (per requisite) and tried to run the command with the phone on normally and again in the bootloader.
No luck... Suggestions?
Edit: USB Debugging wasn't on... Trying again...
bb2si said:
Yep! Unlocked the bootloader successfully! Now, I'm trying to Root and the instructions I'm following are good, but I'm stuck again - It says to run CMD and use the command "adb devices." It comes back with nothing found, yet, according to the instructions my phone's serial number should be listed. I placed the Superuser.zip file in the phone's storage (per requisite) and tried to run the command with the phone on normally and again in the bootloader.
No luck... Suggestions?
Edit: USB Debugging wasn't on... Trying again...
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If you are unlocked you can simply download a custom recovery for your phone into your fastboot directory and boot your phone to boot loader (fastboot) mode. Flash your recovery using your appropriate fastboot command. Then boot to your new custom recovery and flash the su.zip you copied to the phone from recovery.
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dottat said:
If you are unlocked you can simply download a custom recovery for your phone into your fastboot directory and boot your phone to boot loader (fastboot) mode. Flash your recovery using your appropriate fastboot command. Then boot to your new custom recovery and flash the su.zip you copied to the phone from recovery.
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Everything went smoothly! I am now rooted and excited to get to work!
Thank you for your time and help!
bb2si said:
Everything went smoothly! I am now rooted and excited to get to work!
Thank you for your time and help!
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Good deal. You may want to investigate s-off'ing that thing too while you still can. Just make sure you download the right version for your phone and run as admin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525375
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dottat said:
Good deal. You may want to investigate s-off'ing that thing too while you still can. Just make sure you download the right version for your phone and run as admin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525375
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Would that solve my next problem? (I'm such a sputz)
I'm rooted, but I can't uninstall anything with Titanium Backup. The last time this happened on my S3 I was told to install SuperSU and install updated binaries. I did that, but when I reboot and go back into SuoerSU it acymts as if it never happened. Apps I uninstalled are still present, too.
Would S-offing solve this?
Edit: Also, I get an annoying pop-up when I start the phone up that says vDN client has failed. Even before I unlocked and rooted. Any way to stop this?
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bb2si said:
Would that solve my next problem? (I'm such a sputz)
I'm rooted, but I can't uninstall anything with Titanium Backup. The last time this happened on my S3 I was told to install SuperSU and install updated binaries. I did that, but when I reboot and go back into SuoerSU it acymts as if it never happened. Apps I uninstalled are still present, too.
Would S-offing solve this?
Edit: Also, I get an annoying pop-up when I start the phone up that says vDN client has failed. Even before I unlocked and rooted. Any way to stop this?
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You need to flash an insecure boot.img to disable system write protection. S-off would allow you to recover your phone using both signed and unsigned ruu. The advantage of that is when you hose your phone and there's not a current ruu for the version your phone is on - s-on user would be screwed because you cannot downgrade. Just one of many reasons.
The fc problem I'm not sure. If you aren't using that app you can disable it in the stock app manager. Same goes for stuff you might normally remove with tibu. Be warned too that future otas will likely fail if system apps are missing.
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bb2si said:
Would that solve my next problem? (I'm such a sputz)
I'm rooted, but I can't uninstall anything with Titanium Backup. The last time this happened on my S3 I was told to install SuperSU and install updated binaries. I did that, but when I reboot and go back into SuoerSU it acymts as if it never happened. Apps I uninstalled are still present, too.
Would S-offing solve this?
Edit: Also, I get an annoying pop-up when I start the phone up that says vDN client has failed. Even before I unlocked and rooted. Any way to stop this?
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i have noticed someelse posting about the vDN client failing.. it your providers bloatware if i remember correctly and i think @dottat has a good suggestion! disabled it
So I somehow lost root privileges... After S-offing, I was asked to update the SU binary through the Superuser app (not SuperSU) and I did so. When the install finished, I went into Titanium Backup and was told I'm not rooted.
Went back into Superuser and it didn't prompt for an update, but SuperSU did. Attempted and failed.
Went into recovery and tried to recover root - no luck.
HALP!
bb2si said:
So I somehow lost root privileges... After S-offing, I was asked to update the SU binary through the Superuser app (not SuperSU) and I did so. When the install finished, I went into Titanium Backup and was told I'm not rooted.
Went back into Superuser and it didn't prompt for an update, but SuperSU did. Attempted and failed.
Went into recovery and tried to recover root - no luck.
HALP!
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Easy...Download this and flash in recovery
http://download.chainfire.eu/382/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.93.zip
Make sure you aren't running both supersu and superuser. I prefer supersu
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Huzzah! Thanks again! Hopefully I can actually freeze/remove system apps without them being brought back after a reboot. Also, in the picture provided, what is that icon in the notification bar just right of the GPS icon? And, is there any way to hide some of the icons?
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Don't use Superuser by ChainsDD anymore.. Personally I would love to continue to use it but he is basically no longer supporting his Superuser app and binary and hasn't updated it in a very long time. SuperSU by Chainfire is constantly being updated therefore made to work with all current versions of Android.. Quite frankly it's all the same basically anyways I just liked the skull and cross bone look lol... Chainfire is a monster as well and has a ton of root related apps and cool things going on. ChainsDD I guess passed the torch on to Chainfire???
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Huzzah! Thanks again! Hopefully I can actually freeze/remove system apps without them being brought back after a reboot. Also, in the picture provided, what is that icon in the notification bar just right of the GPS icon? And, is there any way to hide some of the icons?
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Also I have no idea what that icon is next to the GPS icon.. You must be on Sprint, I'm on Verizon and I don't think I've seen that icon before..