Rooting a phone

[johnd09]

I just tried it again and it told me: "Checking..[PG05IMG.zip]" (it was like that for 20 minutes) and that's all it says but that's after I see the blue scanning bar in the top right hand corner


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That's odd if its unlocked it should let you flash it. You might contact HTC and complain, or try revolutionary and see if their method will unlock it and give you s-off, theirs installs a new bootloader so it should let you flash recovery, but that method won't give root since the newest update, you'll have to install a rooted rom after you get recovery on it. In short on revolutionary, it should unlock and install recovery, but root will fail. Install a rooted rom and it should be rooted.

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[knlin515]

That's odd if its unlocked it should let you flash it. You might contact HTC and complain, or try revolutionary and see if their method will unlock it and give you s-off, theirs installs a new bootloader so it should let you flash recovery, but that method won't give root since the newest update, you'll have to install a rooted rom after you get recovery on it. In short on revolutionary, it should unlock and install recovery, but root will fail. Install a rooted rom and it should be rooted.

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I have tried revolutionary but it still failed. I try and find a way to contact HTC because if I'm haveing this much trouble I would advise people not to use the HTCdev tool just yet

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[ram1970]

I'm very nervous about bricking my phone because I am new to this. Listening to what you guys are talking about here I guess I'll just wait and see if an easier method surfaces. I guess this new firmware update makes this a pain.

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[johnd09]

Where did revolutionary fail at? If it succeeded in flashing their custom bootloader you may have s-off.

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[knlin515]

Where did revolutionary fail at? If it succeeded in flashing their custom bootloader you may have s-off.

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It fails at "Zerging root..."

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[johnd09]

Check your bootloader, you should be able to get into recovery and flash a rooted rom.

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[knlin515]

Check your bootloader, you should be able to get into recovery and flash a rooted rom.

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I just tried that and still no luck. It's frustrating on how locked down HTC made this phone to be. Every thing is locked it some way or another.

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[johnd09]

Sorry, maybe somebody will be able to help you, I was fortunate enough to get rooted pre-gingerbread.

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[ram1970]

That stinks. I wish I would have rooted before this latest firmware like I was originally intending. :-(

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[johnd09]

Something you might check into is pushing recovery by adb on your computer. I don't know exactly how to do it, but you might research it.

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