Guest Liquid_Metal_UK Posted December 7, 2011 Report Posted December 7, 2011 Having now got my 8GB Micro SD I was about to follow the instructions at the top of the board to root my Liquid Metal but notice that a few bits relate to it being done from a PC. Anyone on here successfully rooted from a Mac? I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 if that helps.
Guest !gm Posted December 8, 2011 Report Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) you'll need the sdk and the Android SDK Platform-tools to switch the recovery check this xda post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19529637&postcount=10 the fastboot procedure can you obtain by the install_recovery.cmd at the extracted recovery.zip then you can root your device by flashing the zip from the sd Edited December 8, 2011 by !gm
Guest Liquid_Metal_UK Posted December 8, 2011 Report Posted December 8, 2011 Many thanks for the reply, would I then follow this thread... Or does what you said above replace some/all of the instructions in that thread? Sorry, but am a complete newbie when it comes to rooting a phone.
Guest !gm Posted December 8, 2011 Report Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) no, the "How to install a custom ROM & Partition your SD & Root" is sligtly wrong about rooting only this is where you get the recovery + mentioned install_recovery.cmd: superuser you'll get from here: http://androidsu.com/superuser/ recovery you can enter finger-breaking-free by adb reboot recovery (if you enabled USB-Debugging) Edited December 8, 2011 by !gm
Guest Liquid_Metal_UK Posted December 8, 2011 Report Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) Sorry, really stupid when it comes to all this type of stuff and need a bit more help. At the moment I have my week old Acer Liquid Metal running 2.3.6 Gingerbread. Basically I only want to partition my phone as fed up with the "Low space" messages, what version of Android would I end up with if I followed above? Are there any simple instructions such as: 1. Download blah blah 2. Plug in USB blah blah Etc? I am really nervous about attempting this but feel I have to as phone is so restricted without partitioning for more space. Thanks for your time so far :) Edited December 8, 2011 by Liquid_Metal_UK
Guest !gm Posted December 9, 2011 Report Posted December 9, 2011 (edited) You just asked about rooting - we only talked about rooting this includes a replacement of the recovery, but android version and partition table remain untouched. Don't think about repartitioning the phone, you have definitely no doubt about the consequences... <_< If you meant altering the partitiontable of the sdcard you'll go well with the appropriate part in the "How to install a custom ROM & Partition your SD & Root". Edited December 9, 2011 by !gm
Guest Frojd Posted December 9, 2011 Report Posted December 9, 2011 (edited) Here is a step by step list for you Liquid_Metal_UK: 1. Download the android SDK from: Android SDK 2. Follow the SDK instructions to download and install "android platform tools". 3. Download and extract fastboot_mac.zip to "android-sdk/platform-tools". Rename it "fastboot". 4. Download CWM recovery and extract "recoo.img" to "android-sdk/platform-tools" 5. Plug in your LM and enable "USB-debugging" in settings. 6. Start up terminal and cd to the android-skd/platform-tools folder. 7. Type "adb devices" and check that your device is displayed (a series of number and letters). 8. Shut down your device and hold "volume up" while pressing power to boot into fastboot mode. Type "adb shell reboot fastboot". Your device will reboot into fastboot mode. 9. When you see three colored squares on the display you're in fastboot. Type "fastboot flash recovery recoo.img" in terminal. If it worked correctly you will get a succes response. 10. Type "fastboot reboot" to reboot normally. When rebootet you can use "adb shell reboot recovery" to get into the recovery. Shut down your device and press "volume up", "focus" and "power" to boot into CWM. If all has worked well you will be able to partiotion your SD-card from here. 11. Download the superuser app that !gm linked. Put it on the root of your SD-card and use CWMrecovery to flash it. Now your devices should be rooted and your SD-card ready for usage with Link2SD. Edited February 25, 2012 by Frojd
Guest Liquid_Metal_UK Posted December 10, 2011 Report Posted December 10, 2011 Thanks so much Frojd. Will report back once I have attempted it. I am sure that your step by step guide will help other Mac users with this phone. Thanks again.
Guest Frojd Posted December 10, 2011 Report Posted December 10, 2011 It has been some time since I last did it so just come back if you run into any problem! :)
Guest akasma74 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Posted February 1, 2012 Here is a step by step list for you Liquid_Metal_UK: 1. Download the android SDK from: Android SDK 2. Follow the SDK instructions to download and install "android platform tools". 3. Download and extract fastboot_mac.zip to "android-sdk/platform-tools". Rename it "fastboot". 4. Download CWM recovery and extract "recoo.img" to "android-sdk/platform-tools" 5. Plug in your LM and enable "USB-debugging" in settings. 6. Start up terminal and cd to the android-skd/platform-tools folder. 7. Type "adb devices" and check that your device is displayed (a series of number and letters). 8. Type "adb shell reboot fastboot". Your device will reboot into fastboot mode. 9. When you see three colored squares on the display you're in fastboot. Type "fastboot flash recovery recoo.img" in terminal. If it worked correctly you will get a succes response. 10. Type "fastboot reboot" to reboot normally. When rebootet you can use "adb shell reboot recovery" to get into the recovery. If all has worked well you will be able to partiotion your SD-card from here. 11. Download the superuser app that !gm linked. Put it on the root of your SD-card and use CWMrecovery to flash it. Now your devices should be rooted and your SD-card ready for usage with Link2SD. on step 8 it says "Operation not permitted" what's wrong with it?
Guest chemicalbuz Posted February 1, 2012 Report Posted February 1, 2012 on step 8 it says "Operation not permitted" what's wrong with it? it means you don't have root usually
Guest Big_Bang_Bones Posted February 1, 2012 Report Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) i'm not the savviest, but mac's Terminal did my head in (it wouldnt recognize 'adb' even tho SDK installed fine). I ended up buying & installing W7 with Bootcamp... Edited February 1, 2012 by Big_Bang_Bones
Guest digitaldai Posted February 1, 2012 Report Posted February 1, 2012 I just rooted on mac but using vmware running windows XP to get round these kind of problems. so most likely not much help!
Guest akasma74 Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 it means you don't have root usually I thought all this was to obtain this root, wasn't it? ;)
Guest akasma74 Posted February 2, 2012 Report Posted February 2, 2012 i'm not the savviest, but mac's Terminal did my head in (it wouldnt recognize 'adb' even tho SDK installed fine). I ended up buying & installing W7 with Bootcamp... ./adb instead of adb works for me ;)
Guest Big_Bang_Bones Posted February 3, 2012 Report Posted February 3, 2012 ./adb instead of adb works for me ;) I'm pretty sure tried that too!
Guest akasma74 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 I'm pretty sure tried that too! well, I followed all the long instructions and now I'm able to manage my phone via "adb shell", but there was no way to install custom recovery apart from setting it up from Windows :\
Guest Frojd Posted February 4, 2012 Report Posted February 4, 2012 I thought all this was to obtain this root, wasn't it? ;) Yeah, that was a bit stupid of me! Use a button-combination to reboot in fastboot instead.
Guest akasma74 Posted February 5, 2012 Report Posted February 5, 2012 Yeah, that was a bit stupid of me! Use a button-combination to reboot in fastboot instead. thanks anyway, now I have all that SDK stuff on my Mac and can issue adb commands as the phone is rooted ;)
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