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Hello everyone,
I am Stringbeanz. I just recently bought a G1 and I'm loving it! However i do hear this and that about Rooting/Jailbreaking/Modding and that sort to the G1 and I'm deeply interested in it. I have read a bunch of different threads about it but i seem to be stuck in a confused state. If someone would kindly be able to post the links to any downloads needed and maybe some text or videos to help guide me on my path to a Rooted G1 that would be awesome!
Thanks again!
Stringbeanz
There is a most excellent G1 rooting guide on xda.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Just follow the steps and you'll be rooted and ready to go within 30 minutes.
thanks a bunch! that sure was a fast reply!
Ill get right on it......
mannyb said:
There is a most excellent G1 rooting guide on xda.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Just follow the steps and you'll be rooted and ready to go within 30 minutes.
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This is true... completed all mods within a hour.
All~G1 said:
This is true... completed all mods within a hour.
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Hey guys i followed the instructions and i was able to downgrade to rc29 but for some reason i keep gettin stuck somewhere..... When i load the phone and press enter twice on the home screen the slider slides open and close and then i type telnetd and press enter again. then i proceed to download Telnet and i press enter twice and i have a ## prompt. then i type in all the codes on separate lines.... Is there supposed to be a confirmation after the last one? And does anyone have the latest link to JF 1.42 rc33? or the latest one for US? thanks a bunch.
P.S what files am i currently supposed to have on my SDcard? do i still need DREAIMG.nbh since i have rc29 already? and what files do i need to have when i am proceeding to telnet? Sorry for all the questions im such a noob lol.....
Everyone's gotta start somewhere. I can't help you with the rooting process since I bought an Adroid Dev Phone that comes totally unlocked/rooted straight out of the box, but at least I can point you in the direction of the latest JF RC33: http://jf.odiness.com/v1.42/JFv1.42_RC33.zip
mannyb said:
Everyone's gotta start somewhere. I can't help you with the rooting process since I bought an Adroid Dev Phone that comes totally unlocked/rooted straight out of the box, but at least I can point you in the direction of the latest JF RC33: http://jf.odiness.com/v1.42/JFv1.42_RC33.zip
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Thanks. I appreciate it. Ill start from scratch i guess....
Instructions and notes for JF's images: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475381
If when i hold the Home button and i can see Android System does that mean im rooted? i couldn't see that before
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean when you boot the phone up by holding Home and Power?
Well i was trying to follow JF's steps and when i held the camera button and power i saw the skating androids and his post says thats from the Hard SPL. i let it boot and i pressed enter on the home screen and typed in
cd sdcard<press enter>
sh install<press enter>
and it was supposed to reboot but it didn't
so im trying to figure what to do now. Gah so confusing!
Thanks for all the help guys! I got my G1 rooted and rockin!
Champion!
Now go play with the damn thing
mannyb said:
Champion!
Now go play with the damn thing
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Yeah i sure am! The only down side is i think i corrupted my SD card!
If you got any ideas I'd appreciate it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=496706
Thanks!
Stringbeanz
Hey Guys
I really hope I'm posting this in the right place. Please forgive my ignorance
For the past few days I have tried to get simple and UP TO DATE instruction on how to root the G1. There is so much information scattered out there that its quite overwhelming. Unfortunately I only understand half of the stuff I'm reading (at best) and was hoping one of you smart folks can help a complete amateur in my desperate quest to get root
Can someone please help me with the following:
1) are these steps for downgrading to RC 29 and rooting still applicable for cupcake?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
2) what does it mean to update the radio, SPL, and ROM and how do I do that.
3) where can I find the latest versions of all the stuff I need?
4) will I be able to reinstall all the apps I've bought as long as sign in with the same email after rooting?
5) will some market apps be blocked for me after rooting?
I realize this sounds really ignorant but would appreciate any help I can get!
Think about how many times a day the same inquiries roll these boards. If you've been reading the boards for the past few days and didn't find the answer to the majority of those questions something ain't right meng. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm just saying. The foundation of everything you may or may not learn is slap dab one of the first posts in this forum.
I'm not going to get into that..but you need to. the answers to all your questions are here in front of you. It just gets frustrating (it was to me at least) at times because you might stumble upon 3 different but totally correct answers to one question. Thats exactly where i was right HERE. that was two weeks ago. jumped on the boards one friday night a wreck, by sunday night i was peacefully rooted. Slow down, think about what your doing and what you're reading. make sure you have some free time...TO YOUR SELF. get a pen and some paper right stuff down. take into consideration you might not make it in a day. yeah u might botch your way to ROOT, but unless you REALLLY understand and know how to get there...you could be setting yourself up for alot of frustration. thats all i have to say about that. you caught me on a good night...just had a glass of wine bout call it quits. sorry about any typos. good luck!
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Think about how many times a day the same inquiries roll these boards. If you've been reading the boards for the past few days and didn't find the answer to the majority of those questions something ain't right meng. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm just saying. The foundation of everything you may or may not learn is slap dab one of the first posts in this forum.
I'm not going to get into that..but you need to. the answers to all your questions are here in front of you. It just gets frustrating (it was to me at least) at times because you might stumble upon 3 different but totally correct answers to one question. Thats exactly where i was right HERE. that was two weeks ago. jumped on the boards one friday night a wreck, by sunday night i was peacefully rooted. Slow down, think about what your doing and what you're reading. make sure you have some free time...TO YOUR SELF. get a pen and some paper right stuff down. take into consideration you might not make it in a day. yeah u might botch your way to ROOT, but unless you REALLLY understand and know how to get there...you could be setting yourself up for alot of frustration. thats all i have to say about that. you caught me on a good night...just had a glass of wine bout call it quits. sorry about any typos. good luck!
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off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
1) downgrading to RC29 has not changed. it is only different if you do not have a us or uk g1 (you will need to use a goldcard method otherwise)
2)
radio is here
(ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip )
http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3
HardSPL found here w/ descriptions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
3)what stuff?
4) yes your apps will be there
5) depends on the rom but most have all apps enabled
B-man007 said:
off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
1) downgrading to RC29 has not changed. it is only different if you do not have a us or uk g1 (you will need to use a goldcard method otherwise)
2)
radio is here
(ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip )
http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3
HardSPL found here w/ descriptions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
3)what stuff?
4) yes your apps will be there
5) depends on the rom but most have all apps enabled
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Thanks so much! I realize hearing these basic questions about root over and over must be increadibly frustrating for you and appreciate the patience!
Any recommendations as to what ROM I should install? Not quite sure how the different versions compare.
off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
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OUCH! Good looking out.
OP, I followed the instructions you linked to just a few days ago and it worked like a breeze. Much easier that I thought it would, and i have no experience with this. I would suggest that when you get to the final part where you are upgrading to a new ROM to try cyanogen's stable build 3.6.8.1. It is just like cupcake (what you had) with a ton of new options.
also, his pimped out recovery.img can be used... version 1.4. I followed that guide to a T, then learned of this new and improved recovery.img file he made. So, basically the next day I changed to this version and it is a lot better.
Partition your sd card when you finish this and his rom will put all of your apps on your SD card, which frees up a ton of internal memory. I went and d/loaded about 60 apps after doing this. His rom does it for you automatically... like, no thought needed, you want even know unless you go to settings and look at the memory.... or, you may b/c of the speed of your phone. This was also much easier than I though, basically just keying a few lines of text in terminal emulator (which you will have after loading his rom above).
Any of the other experienced people have any issues with what I said?
I would also suggest cyanogen's builds. It has a lot of features and is both relatively noob friendly, feature-packed, advanced capabilities for advanced users, and fast. His 4.0 stable is just around the corner with even more features than his current stable version. There are many other ROM's out there as well, you'll have to try em out yourself and see if you like them or not. (Be careful of the ones that say you need the updated SPL, such as the hero ROM's. If your not careful when updating to that SPL [Haykuro's 1.33.2005 SPL] you could brick your phone. )
Cyan's recovery is a must
its great no matter what ROM you choose to use
If you need anything else, feel free to PM me or post here
This is how I got it to work!!!
(SD CARD READER NEEDED)
Got it to work using this tutorial. If I had found it before I wouldn't have started a new thread. Will look harder in the future!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533731
Followed steps until step 16
After step 16:
I had to install the JesusFreke rom cause it wouldn’t let me flash the cyanogen recovery image otherwise (permission denied problem as mentioned by author)
Installed cyanogen recovery image
I skipped partitioning the sd card at this point cause I didn’t plan on installing the Hero rom. If you want to flash the Hero rom you shouldn't skip partitioning
Installed latest Radio
Installed latest SPL
From here on I did my own thing:
Couldn’t boot after updating SPL cause rom got wiped by updating SPL. I had to put the new rom (Cyanogen v3.6.8.1) onto sd card, rename as update.zip and boot into recovery mode to flash it. This is were the sd card reader comes in handy.
You can find the Cyanogen ROM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204
After flashing the rom it was stuck on the loading screen so I rebooted into recovery mode and did a clean swipe. Loaded just fine after that.
Created ext2 partition using Paragon Partition Manager (see threat below), rebooted and was good to go
Partitioning using Paragon Partition Manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...artitioning+sd
Thanks again for your help guys!
I just used cyan's recovery 1.4 and loaded the radio.zip, spl.zip, and rom.zip onto my sdcard and flashed them in that order. I didn't need to take my sdcard at all
ThR1LL said:
I just used cyan's recovery 1.4 and loaded the radio.zip, spl.zip, and rom.zip onto my sdcard and flashed them in that order. I didn't need to take my sdcard at all
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lol i c u used my guide.
Hope it was helpful hahahaha
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lol i c u used my guide.
Hope it was helpful hahahaha
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There's a guide on this?!?! WTF!!! I like freaked out over a week trying to figure out how to flash the new SPL without taking out my SD card until I found this post and made it work with cyan's new recovery. Someone should sticky your guide bc I had no idea it existed lol.
ThR1LL said:
There's a guide on this?!?! WTF!!! I like freaked out over a week trying to figure out how to flash the new SPL without taking out my SD card until I found this post and made it work with cyan's new recovery. Someone should sticky your guide bc I had no idea it existed lol.
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ya . Right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548924
o and right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
(scroll down to fastboot)
nephron said:
ya . Right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548924
o and right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
(scroll down to fastboot)
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Ohh lol see I didn't bother reading that ADB guide since I already had adb since pre-cupcake when I attempted to root my phone the first time.
firmware 1.6
baseband 62.50S.20.17U_2.22.19.26I
build DRC92
I got G1 bought in uk (continental)
HOW TO ROOT IT FIRST AND THAN INSTALL 2.1 ANDROID on it.
Don't tell me its on the forum, because its not.all the answers are confusing,everyone is trying different files etc.
I need 100% working sollution ,someone who have done it, and knows exacly the process.
I know i have to downgrade first DRC92, than root it ,than install 2.1 .
only working sollution checked by yourself.
THanks
lu9thix said:
Don't tell me its on the forum, because its not.all the answers are confusing
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Ok, I won't "tell you" it's on the forum, but it is. Did you even look here? HERE
This is a step by step of what to do. If you can read, you can root.
Since this is your first post I won't "tell you" to have a better attitude and not be lazy.
if that dont work work email me bro and we can do that ish step by step. i got gchat if u got it its faster.
Welcome to the forum and thanks for not clicking any of the stickies labeled READ ME BEFORE YOU POST in any of the forums. We appreciate this, because now we get to spend time reading this thread and being annoyed, when the time could be better served helping people that actually read the directions and maybe got stuck. And yes, I am being sarcastic.
Ninjineer said:
Welcome to the forum and thanks for not clicking any of the stickies labeled READ ME BEFORE YOU POST in any of the forums. We appreciate this, because now we get to spend time reading this thread and being annoyed, when the time could be better served helping people that actually read the directions and maybe got stuck. And yes, I am being sarcastic.
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Sigh* my back hurts now. Go install adb also.
Here, both tutorials in 1 spot....
ADB 4 Dummies (this will get ADB up and running on either linux, windows or mac w/ step by step instruction for all)
G1 Root / Upgrade Tutorial - this will root, upgrade recovery, upgrade radio, upgrade spl, partition your sdcard and install the newest cyanogenmod 4.2.15.1.
Six6Sicks said:
Ok, I won't "tell you" it's on the forum, but it is. Did you even look here? HERE
This is a step by step of what to do. If you can read, you can root.
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I started reading through that, downloading the files that it said to download but I'm stuck at the "1.6 Recovery Image" file. The link goes to a page that offers files for the Android DevPhone, but I just have a normal TMobile G1. What file am I supposed to use?
hawicz said:
I started reading through that, downloading the files that it said to download but I'm stuck at the "1.6 Recovery Image" file. The link goes to a page that offers files for the Android DevPhone, but I just have a normal TMobile G1. What file am I supposed to use?
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When you go here: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Scroll down till you see
Version: Android 1.6
Image: Recovery Image
download this one: signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip
If you get stuck after that let us know.
the 32b version of the Dream is the t-mo G1 AND the ADP1 (dev phone) only diff is one came with a diff SPL, and some cool graphics
@ all sarcastic ppl - will you pay me for my bricked phone if I try and do something wrong?Its better to ask someone who. Already done it, init?
Considering amount of bricked g1/htc on ebay-thanks :]
Bloody experts,instead help you get old ppl talk.
@all who was helpful -mrandroid and b6gsix
Six6Sicks said:
When you go here: h ttp://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Scroll down till you see
Version: Android 1.6
Image: Recovery Image
download this one: signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip
If you get stuck after that let us know.
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Ok, I'll assume that I should ignore the big warning at the top of the page that says "This update applies to the Android Dev Phone for developers only", and try that file. Thanks.
mrandroid said:
Here, both tutorials in 1 spot....
ADB 4 Dummies (this will get ADB up and running on either linux, windows or mac w/ step by step instruction for all)
G1 Root / Upgrade Tutorial - this will root, upgrade recovery, upgrade radio, upgrade spl, partition your sdcard and install the newest cyanogenmod 4.2.15.1.
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This works perfect. includes all files needed and easy to follow tutorial. By the time you're done you'll need to do nothing else.
hawicz said:
Ok, I'll assume that I should ignore the big warning at the top of the page that says "This update applies to the Android Dev Phone for developers only", and try that file. Thanks.
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yeP!
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whitemonster said:
This works perfect. includes all files needed and easy to follow tutorial. By the time you're done you'll need to do nothing else.
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You're kidding, right? When I tried that upgrade tutorial (the one at myhangoutonline.com) *none* of the files were available for download. Every single one I clicked on went to a "404" page.
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yeP!
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Ok, thanks, but... I'm still a bit confused: all the instructions I've seen for upgrading to Android 2.1 say to use cyanogenmod, but the cyanogenmod site says that it is based on Android 1.6 (according to cyanogenmod.com/about), so is that really what I'm supposed to use?
hawicz said:
You're kidding, right? When I tried that upgrade tutorial (the one at myhangoutonline.com) *none* of the files were available for download. Every single one I clicked on went to a "404" page.
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I apologize, stupid SEO plugin was rewriting the url and messing up a seperate plugin. Links are now working if you still need to upgrade.
My tutorial shows you how to root and upgrade everything and install cyanogenmod 4.2.15.1 if you want to try the 2.1 version which is in testing, go to the cyanogenmod repository on my site, go into the testing folder for the G1 and download that rom instead. Use that rom instead of 4.2.15.1 as the final step.
G1 Root / Upgrade Tutorial
hawicz said:
Ok, thanks, but... I'm still a bit confused: all the instructions I've seen for upgrading to Android 2.1 say to use cyanogenmod, but the cyanogenmod site says that it is based on Android 1.6 (according to cyanogenmod.com/about), so is that really what I'm supposed to use?
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Just put the 1.6 on then you can flash 2.1 found HERE
Follow the directions on the main post.
If you have gtalk pm me your gtalk email and I'll try and step you through it if you absolutely can't figure it out.
Thanks for all the answers! I think I have a good understanding of what I need to do now, so here goes...
*crosses fingers*
I'm following the instructions on myhangoutonline.com.
Well, so far so good, with some minor hiccups:
During the downgrade your phone step, when the phone says "Press the action key" after step 6, it's talking about the trackball button. Took me a little while to figure that out.
However, after I pressed it, it just went back to the initial multicolor gradient screen, with the addition of a line in the middle that said "Serial0". (maybe it was there before, but I missed it?) I ended up having to pull the battery because I could figure out how to make it reboot.
After reboot I had to go through the Google sign in process. Not a big deal, but it'd be nice to mention that this is necessary.
Upgrading recovery seemed to go pretty much as described. On to the apparent dangerous step of upgrading the radio & spl!
Uh oh! It looks like something didn't work. I started up in recovery mode, but there's no option in the menu for "Mount SD card".
I tried going to console, then "ls /sdcard", but no files show up, and /sdcard doesn't show up as a mounted filesystem when I run "mount".
I couldn't figure out how to get out of the console ("exit" just took me back to a "press enter" prompt, and then back into the console), so I ended up pulling the battery again.
Now what? Should I try upgrading recovery again?
Sooooo today I read this article (http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-edition-htc-one-bootloader-and-recovery-now-available) and I was siked to try to get vanilla android on my One. Unfortunately, I'm no whiz when it comes to these things and usually just try and follow step by step directions I find on forums. I found this page (cdforum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316726) and in all my excitement I completely missed where it said S-off is required and began the process. Booted the phone into bootloader, flashed the zips, and ended up with "error: cannot load 'descenpet_HBOOT_1.54_2.24_MOD'. Now I'm stuck with my phone still plugged into my computer only showing the black screen with the HTC logo. I read on to find out if I mess with it anymore it could possibly be bricked...not something I want.
Some quick facts, it's running stock sense software which came on it when I bought it and I rooted it a month or two ago. I hadn't even upgraded the software version to .10 (instead I still have the .7 at the end). Any kind of help would be great and please feel free to ask questions because I'm completely out of my element here and I don't what else you guys need to know in order to help me out. Thanks anyways!
its a bad idea to flash GSM firmware onto a CDMA phone... I would just RUU the whole thing back to stock
RUU may be your best option, but if you managed to flash the modified hboot/bootloader with S-ON you may be hosed OP. S-ON won't let the tampered boot-time code run if you overwrote it. Look in the forums for the RUU guide (search tool) and give it a go, but it doesn't look great.
cowkong said:
Sooooo today I read this article (http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-edition-htc-one-bootloader-and-recovery-now-available) and I was siked to try to get vanilla android on my One. Unfortunately, I'm no whiz when it comes to these things and usually just try and follow step by step directions I find on forums. I found this page (cdforum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316726) and in all my excitement I completely missed where it said S-off is required and began the process. Booted the phone into bootloader, flashed the zips, and ended up with "error: cannot load 'descenpet_HBOOT_1.54_2.24_MOD'. Now I'm stuck with my phone still plugged into my computer only showing the black screen with the HTC logo. I read on to find out if I mess with it anymore it could possibly be bricked...not something I want.
Some quick facts, it's running stock sense software which came on it when I bought it and I rooted it a month or two ago. I hadn't even upgraded the software version to .10 (instead I still have the .7 at the end). Any kind of help would be great and please feel free to ask questions because I'm completely out of my element here and I don't what else you guys need to know in order to help me out. Thanks anyways!
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you may just need to flash the kernel for .10, don't know your whole situation.
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum; this is my first post.
I have an M7 on a stock HTC/AT&T ROM running Lollipop 5.0.2 with Sense 6.0.
I would like to root the device so that I can do things like eliminate ads, remove bloatware, run more advanced software, etc., but I do not want to loose things like Beats Audio/Boom Sound. So I'm thinking I just want to stick with the stock AT&T/HTC M7 ROM.
I have seen reference to the Sunshine App, but unless someone can tell me it does something absolutely magical for the one-use $25 payment they expect, I'm fine doing it the free way. I got the impression about Sunshine that it doesn't actually get you all the way to root. If it got me all the way and saved my data/apps, too, I'd be all over it.
Can someone please give me the full path of steps I need to go through to get this done? I'm not a dumb guy. Pretty computer savvy, actually, but there is a lot of jargon and intermediate steps that seem to be involved in all of this. Some of the videos I'm seeing are quite dated at this point, and I have to wonder if they are relevant to an AT&T M7 on Lollipop a this point. But I thrive on step-by-step tutorials, so if you guys point me to the right videos or written tutorials, I should be fine.
Any suggestion on the best way to backup my device would be appreciated, too. I understand I'm going to get all my data and programs wiped somewhere along the path.
Thank you!
djMot said:
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum; this is my first post.
I have an M7 on a stock HTC/AT&T ROM running Lollipop 5.0.2 with Sense 6.0.
I would like to root the device so that I can do things like eliminate ads, remove bloatware, run more advanced software, etc., but I do not want to loose things like Beats Audio/Boom Sound. So I'm thinking I just want to stick with the stock AT&T/HTC M7 ROM.
I have seen reference to the Sunshine App, but unless someone can tell me it does something absolutely magical for the one-use $25 payment they expect, I'm fine doing it the free way. I got the impression about Sunshine that it doesn't actually get you all the way to root. If it got me all the way and saved my data/apps, too, I'd be all over it.
Can someone please give me the full path of steps I need to go through to get this done? I'm not a dumb guy. Pretty computer savvy, actually, but there is a lot of jargon and intermediate steps that seem to be involved in all of this. Some of the videos I'm seeing are quite dated at this point, and I have to wonder if they are relevant to an AT&T M7 on Lollipop a this point. But I thrive on step-by-step tutorials, so if you guys point me to the right videos or written tutorials, I should be fine.
Any suggestion on the best way to backup my device would be appreciated, too. I understand I'm going to get all my data and programs wiped somewhere along the path.
Thank you!
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just posted this for someone else
Flash TWRP 2.8.5.0
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.0-m7.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
/ enter recovery
Exit recovery choose yes to Root
when the phone boots up go to the SuperSU Icon in the app drawer
it will ask to update / choose TWRP
after it reboots your rooted
clsA said:
just posted this for someone else
Flash TWRP 2.8.5.0
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.0-m7.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
/ enter recovery
Exit recovery choose yes to Root
when the phone boots up go to the SuperSU Icon in the app drawer
it will ask to update / choose TWRP
after it reboots your rooted
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Thanks, but I think you are making a few too many assumptions that I understand what your saying.
I don't think I can just flash twrp before unlocking the bootloader, am I right? And I have no clue how to flash twrp, how to set up to do that, and what to have where. I can do the steps if I know what they are. So I really am looking for a pretty explicit set of steps. You've given me some steps, yes, and thank you for that(!!), but I think you're coming from a position of already knowing exactly what you are doing and all the ramifications of each and every step you would take, so by the time it gets to me it just sounds like the cliffs notes and I'm still wondering what the novel is about.
And, yes, I get that some of you here answer these kinds of noobie questions a lot, and it just gets tedious repeating yourselves. Unfortunately for us noobies who come looking to the experts for the straight-up how-to, the responses all seem like "just do this, do that" without any discussion of how to do this and how to do that. I've read several "how do I root my phone" threads here, but the answers all seem just a little to Greekish to me, and to others too I would imagine. The video tutorials here were recorded back when the M7 was brand new and there's no indication at all whether updates along the way to present day have altered the process, or whether there is a safer, better way after all this time. I have no idea if they are relevant today.
I get that I'm asking a lot for such an old device, but I would really appreciate a little of a tutorial approach.
Thanks very much.
djMot said:
Thanks, but I think you are making a few too many assumptions that I understand what your saying.
I don't think I can just flash twrp before unlocking the bootloader, am I right? And I have no clue how to flash twrp, how to set up to do that, and what to have where. I can do the steps if I know what they are. So I really am looking for a pretty explicit set of steps. You've given me some steps, yes, and thank you for that(!!), but I think you're coming from a position of already knowing exactly what you are doing and all the ramifications of each and every step you would take, so by the time it gets to me it just sounds like the cliffs notes and I'm still wondering what the novel is about.
And, yes, I get that some of you here answer these kinds of noobie questions a lot, and it just gets tedious repeating yourselves. Unfortunately for us noobies who come looking to the experts for the straight-up how-to, the responses all seem like "just do this, do that" without any discussion of how to do this and how to do that. I've read several "how do I root my phone" threads here, but the answers all seem just a little to Greekish to me, and to others too I would imagine. The video tutorials here were recorded back when the M7 was brand new and there's no indication at all whether updates along the way to present day have altered the process, or whether there is a safer, better way after all this time. I have no idea if they are relevant today.
I get that I'm asking a lot for such an old device, but I would really appreciate a little of a tutorial approach.
Thanks very much.
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Yeah, that's not going to happen
Read the FAQ >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228274
and the So you came at XDA-Developers to find help
If your still stuck after that then ask questions.
Hint: I described all the steps in post 2 above
djMot said:
Thanks, but I think you are making a few too many assumptions that I understand what your saying.
I don't think I can just flash twrp before unlocking the bootloader, am I right? And I have no clue how to flash twrp, how to set up to do that, and what to have where. I can do the steps if I know what they are. So I really am looking for a pretty explicit set of steps. You've given me some steps, yes, and thank you for that(!!), but I think you're coming from a position of already knowing exactly what you are doing and all the ramifications of each and every step you would take, so by the time it gets to me it just sounds like the cliffs notes and I'm still wondering what the novel is about.
And, yes, I get that some of you here answer these kinds of noobie questions a lot, and it just gets tedious repeating yourselves. Unfortunately for us noobies who come looking to the experts for the straight-up how-to, the responses all seem like "just do this, do that" without any discussion of how to do this and how to do that. I've read several "how do I root my phone" threads here, but the answers all seem just a little to Greekish to me, and to others too I would imagine. The video tutorials here were recorded back when the M7 was brand new and there's no indication at all whether updates along the way to present day have altered the process, or whether there is a safer, better way after all this time. I have no idea if they are relevant today.
I get that I'm asking a lot for such an old device, but I would really appreciate a little of a tutorial approach.
Thanks very much.
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Hi,
I know its 2019, four years since you posted this request, but I just pulled my HTC One M7 AT&T after 3 years and had the exact same query and needed a way to ensure that steps mentioned in posts like these in 2015 are still relevant/applicable on our device running Android 5.0.2 with HTC Sense 6.
I was looking to have a device specific tutorial to finally make the plunge to install a custom ROM (someone ported Android 10 to this device!) , but remember there being some complexities back in the day to do this on our device. Were you able to get around this? Look forward to your response.
Thanks & regards,
Deepesh