Has anyone rooted 2.1 without installing a custom rom?

[Guest feelmychi]

I've been using the T-mobile official 2.1 update for the last few days, and if I'm perfectly honest, I've come to quite like canvas and whatnot. For that reason, I'm wondering if anyone has rooted without installing a custom rom, as as we all know, root access is pretty much essential on our pulses...

feelmychi

[Guest John Hamelink]

I've been using the T-mobile official 2.1 update for the last few days, and if I'm perfectly honest, I've come to quite like canvas and whatnot. For that reason, I'm wondering if anyone has rooted without installing a custom rom, as as we all know, root access is pretty much essential on our pulses...

feelmychi

+1

[Guest Simon O]

It can be done. You need to extract the boot.img from your phone, unpack it and disable the secure bit. this will enable root. Pack it back up and flash it using fastboot. Once booted into Android you'll have root.

It's not the easiest method though.

[Guest BigBearMDC]

It can be done. You need to extract the boot.img from your phone, unpack it and disable the secure bit. this will enable root. Pack it back up and flash it using fastboot. Once booted into Android you'll have root.

It's not the easiest method though.

I'll upload superboot images for all 2.1 ROMs (HU, TRE and UK) in the coming week (unless someone else does it before me :D ).

Best regards,

BB

[Guest scoobydoo99]

I've been using the T-mobile official 2.1 update for the last few days, and if I'm perfectly honest, I've come to quite like canvas and whatnot. For that reason, I'm wondering if anyone has rooted without installing a custom rom, as as we all know, root access is pretty much essential on our pulses...

feelmychi

I'm in the same place, been using the official update for a couple of weeks and it's the most stable my phone has been in the 8 months since I got it - it's like I've just been handed a newer generation brand new phone :D

It would be good to sort out the memory issue by rooting and installing apps2sd but after 8 months experience with custom roms giving me regular force closes, silent phone calls, missed text notifications and the odd reboot, I'm not really in the mood for another custom rom at the moment.

I do browse the threads for the 2.1 custom rom and some of the problems I read about put me right off trying another custom rom just now.

[Guest feelmychi]

I'll upload superboot images for all 2.1 ROMs (HU, TRE and UK) in the coming week (unless someone else does it before me :D ).

Best regards,

BB

Bobo, you always have been and always will be my favourite ^__^

feelmychi

Edited August 21, 2010 by feelmychi

[Guest Epic-Emodude]

I've been using the T-mobile official 2.1 update for the last few days, and if I'm perfectly honest, I've come to quite like canvas and whatnot. For that reason, I'm wondering if anyone has rooted without installing a custom rom, as as we all know, root access is pretty much essential on our pulses...

feelmychi

This is actually really simple =)

All you have to do is flash the recovery image in fastboot (see the sticky thred if you need help), and then download this.

Flash it in recovery then when you reboot you will have root =)

I suggest you then download clockwork mod recovery from the market and intall that.

Aaron

[Guest rjm2k]

This is actually really simple =)

All you have to do is flash the recovery image in fastboot (see the sticky thred if you need help), and then download this.

Flash it in recovery then when you reboot you will have root =)

I suggest you then download clockwork mod recovery from the market and intall that.

Aaron

works for me!

[Guest twrock]

I'll upload superboot images for all 2.1 ROMs (HU, TRE and UK) in the coming week (unless someone else does it before me ;) ).

Best regards,

BB

If I asked reeeeeeeeeally nicely, would you also consider a version with a2sd? I'd love to have the Tre rom with both root and a2sd.

Yes, I know, I really should just go learn how to do it myself, but this stuff is pretty hard for us old people. :huh:

[Guest twrock]

I'm in the same place, been using the official update for a couple of weeks and it's the most stable my phone has been in the 8 months since I got it - it's like I've just been handed a newer generation brand new phone :huh:

It would be good to sort out the memory issue by rooting and installing apps2sd but after 8 months experience with custom roms giving me regular force closes, silent phone calls, missed text notifications and the odd reboot, I'm not really in the mood for another custom rom at the moment.

I do browse the threads for the 2.1 custom rom and some of the problems I read about put me right off trying another custom rom just now.

If you want to give something else a try, have a look at J-MOD. I will say that at least with v. 1.0, it was stable for me. (I don't know about v. 1.1, but it's probably good too.) But, YMMV.

[Guest rjm2k]

If I asked reeeeeeeeeally nicely, would you also consider a version with a2sd? I'd love to have the Tre rom with both root and a2sd.

Yes, I know, I really should just go learn how to do it myself, but this stuff is pretty hard for us old people. :huh:

a2sd is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670087 not tried it myself

[Guest rjm2k]

a2sd is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670087 not tried it myself

and busybox is on the market

[Guest twrock]

a2sd is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670087 not tried it myself

Thanks. Now all I have to do is set aside a week of uninterrupted time to do nothing but figure out what they're talking about. ;)

Incidentally, I should say that after having just installed FLB 1.5, I'm completely blown away! It's fast and stable!!!! I've been running it for a couple of hours now and I am thoroughly impressed. So for all those hold-outs, backup what you've got and then give it a try. And being slightly paranoid, I reloaded the Tre rom first before upgrading to FLB 1.5. Don't know if that even matters, but it worked for me.

(And that is one less reason for me to try to learn how to root a rom and enable a2sd on it.) :huh:

[Guest JohnPorter]

If you want to give something else a try, have a look at J-MOD. I will say that at least with v. 1.0, it was stable for me. (I don't know about v. 1.1, but it's probably good too.) But, YMMV.

J-MOD v1 and v1.1 are stable :huh:

[Guest twrock]

J-MOD v1 and v1.1 are stable :D

;) :( :huh:

Kidding aside, yes, that was the thing that I like best about J-MOD. I had been having a lot of stability problems before using it. That's part of why I decided to use the CCR and J-MOD as the base of the TWeak rom. And, honestly, I think I made it less stable in the end with my attempts at improvements. (But don't tell anyone.)

[Guest feelmychi]

This is actually really simple =)

All you have to do is flash the recovery image in fastboot (see the sticky thred if you need help), and then download this.

Flash it in recovery then when you reboot you will have root =)

I suggest you then download clockwork mod recovery from the market and intall that.

Aaron

XD

If I hadn't already tried that, I wouldn't have posted the thread :huh:

feelmychi

[Guest beneix]

I'll upload superboot images for all 2.1 ROMs (HU, TRE and UK) in the coming week (unless someone else does it before me :huh: ).

Best regards,

BB

Sounds like just what I need. Since I am new to these forums, once you have uploaded it, where should I look for it?

[Guest rjm2k]

Sounds like just what I need. Since I am new to these forums, once you have uploaded it, where should I look for it?

See post 7, the download there is all you need to get root once you have installed a custom recovery.