Request: Step Instructions for Root on Mac

[want a droid]

What step are you on?
Have you rebooted yet?
Do you have the superuser Ninja icon in the app drawer?

These are the steps I did:

- open up your favorite terminal emulator program
- cd /tmp
- cp /sdcard/rage*.bin /tmp/
- chmod 777 rage*.bin
- ./rage*.bin
- ignore it's output, we are thinking outside of the box here, just wait  for it to finish and return a $
- now go to settings -> applications -> manage applications ->  running -> terminal and force close that girlie
- relaunch the terminal app and you should be greeted with the friendly #  symbol. Toda you now have a root shell

When I relaunched my terminal app I still had a $ sign.

Exploit failed. Rerun rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin.

Does that just mean re-do all those steps?

 

[darkonion]

These are the steps I did:

- open up your favorite terminal emulator program
- cd /tmp
- cp /sdcard/rage*.bin /tmp/
- chmod 777 rage*.bin
- ./rage*.bin
- ignore it's output, we are thinking outside of the box here, just wait  for it to finish and return a $
- now go to settings -> applications -> manage applications ->  running -> terminal and force close that girlie
- relaunch the terminal app and you should be greeted with the friendly #  symbol. Toda you now have a root shell

When I relaunched my terminal app I still had a $ sign.

Exploit failed. Rerun rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin.

Does that just mean re-do all those steps?

Go hit me up on Google Talk, so I can speak with you in real time.

 

[pool_shark]

Did you do this?

And until myself or someone who is less lazy rolls a version of rage that doesn't check for adb you will have to enable USB debugging.

Settiings -> applications -> development -> USB debugging.

 

[want a droid]

Go hit me up on Google Talk, so I can speak with you in real time.

Google Talk is PC only and I have Mac...

Did you do this?

And until myself or someone who is less lazy rolls a version of rage that doesn't check for adb you will have to enable USB debugging.

Settiings -> applications -> development -> USB debugging.

Yes, Debugging is enabled and it's on my notification panel.

 

[darkonion]

Take your pick of which client you want to use.

Google Talk - Other IM Clients

 

[want a droid]

I don't want to bother installing that. I appreciate you trying to help, if you aren't willing to help me through this forum then I understand, thank you though.

 

[pool_shark]

Maybe you should try rerunning the ./rage*.bin.

Make sure it's done. I saw the $ at the end and then a few more lines of text.

 

[want a droid]

I don't know if it means anything, but when i re open terminal there are two money signs now instead of originally one. When I try doing all the steps over again, after the second step I get "cp: /tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin: Text file busy"

 

[pool_shark]

You don't need to copy the file over again you've already done that.
Just cd /tmp
./rage*.bin

 

[want a droid]

My droid is running so slow right now and I'm not sure why. It's lagging real hard.

I'm trying to do those two steps you posted.

 

[pool_shark]

I'm wondering if you let the command finish before killing the terminal.

Try going into settings - applications and force close some unnecessary programs to get your speed back.

 

[want a droid]

I let the money sign come back up like it says, then kill it.

 

[pool_shark]

I let the money sign come back up like it says, then kill it.

I swear when I did it, I saw the $ then a few more lines of text came.
Then after a few minutes I hit enter and the $ reappeared.

 

[want a droid]

Ok so even after the $ comes up I should wait a bit?

 

[pool_shark]

Ok so even after the $ comes up I should wait a bit?

I did. I wanted to make sure it was done since it was the first time I tried it.