Multiple phones - Root them, unroot them

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Thank you beef and razor, I'm just here to try to help cure as much wailing and gnashing of teeth as I can; glad y'all got 'er done.
 
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Hello All,
I'm new here and to Droid rooting. I would first like to start off by saying what a great forum you folks have here. It seems like you have some very helpful members. Anyway off to my question/problem.

I have a new Droid X running Android 2.2, system version - Version.2.3.15.MB810.Verizon.en.US

I am attempting Step 2 option A

I start off with :
*Visit the market and get the free Android Terminal Emulator installed.
*Visit the market and make sure you have Astro installed.
*Grab rageagainsthecage.zip with your phone
*Use Astro to navigate to the /sdcard/download folder
*Long press on the rageagainstthecage.zip file and "extract to this directory"
*The 4 files, from the zip file should now be in the /sdcard/download folder (rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin, su, superuser.apk and busybox.

All goes fine with those steps.
OK so I open Terminal Emulator.
I type "cd /temp"
And I get "cd: can't cd to /temp" as a response.
Then I'm sent back to the prompt "$".

Any ideas folks cause I have not a clue what to do now. I'm contemplating trying a different method, but have read all the posts in this thread and just can't figure why other DroidX users have had no trouble at all with step 2 option A and I can't even get it to start.

Once I get a handle on things and expand my knowledge I would love to help out around here. I ran a site for PSP hacking a while ago and miss helping people solve there troubles.

Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.


*UPDATE*
LOL. OK so I tried the step 2 option C and My P.O.S. computer will not run the Droid.Co Downloader.
Man this is just not my day. Is it a sign from beyond telling me not to mess with my phone?
I'm to thick headed for that I have to get this thing rooted.

I absolutely despise having things running I didn't install, don't want installed, and can't stop from running. It should be illegal for companies to bloat my equipment with software they feel I need. They should only install the OS and let me and you decide for ourselves what we need/want.

Sorry for that my rant will end there. :)

Again any help with any of this would be greatly appreciated.
 
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All goes fine with those steps.
OK so I open Terminal Emulator.
I type "cd /temp"
And I get "cd: can't cd to /temp" as a response.
Then I'm sent back to the prompt "$".

Fiend, I hate to ask this but when typing "cd /temp" are you typing cd then space then /temp ? Im sorry if it is obvious, I'm just trying to cover any bases. Thanks
 

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Yes I am. In fact I tried it both ways to cover my own butt.LOL
 

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OK found my trouble. I feel like an arse. I was typing cd /temp instead of cd /tmp.
now I'm at the part that says " [+] forked 3802 childs." and am waitin for the prompt to re-appear. How long exactly does it take to re-appear? Directly above that line I see a $ prompt.


*UPDATE*
OK as far as I could tell it was done. I waited what seemed like at least half an hour. Anyway I decided to proceed and everything went just as the guide laid out. So I believe I am rooted now. I just need to learn how and what app to use to backup before I do anything else.
 
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OK found my trouble. I feel like an arse. I was typing cd /temp instead of cd /tmp.

Why I usually sugggest printing the guide and checking off the steps.

now I'm at the part that says " [+] forked 3802 childs." and am waitin for the prompt to re-appear. How long exactly does it take to re-appear?

It was attacking the adb until it had to relent and allow you root.

Glad you got it going, and welcome to the dark side, lol.
 

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OK well I'm sure I'm rooted I just need to make a backup. Can't find a guide for that. Keep running into either rom manager or droidx bootstrapper but which do I need to use? Or do you use both. I just want to backup before proceeding with anything else. A step by step would be nice I don't even care what method or app just a solid way to backup/restore my phone when needed. I've searched but found nothing for the noob to perform the first backup.

Sorry I know to most here this is probably trivial, but as I said I'm a noob and just want to be safe.

*UPDATE*
OK so I just went and used droidx bootstrapper. I completed a backup. So now I can figure that to restore it I would just reload droidx bootstrapper and run restore and chose the folder on my sd card. My question now is how do I run bootstrapper if I can't boot the phone?

I thought I seen somewhere some one said to pull the battery and on the next boot it will goto recovery. Is this correct? If so Do you boot with A/C adapter in and the battery removed or do you pull the battery and re-install it then boot the phone? Once again sorry for the noob questions.
 
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I wish I had more info for you but I don't. All I know is what I read and then retain (which sometimes ain't much, lol), but it seems as though you are getting there.

All I do know is that the way a custom recovery image works for DX owners is very different from the A855 (D1) owners, insomuch as that on the D1 we can actually flash/over write the actual recovery image and then can trick the system to not re-write our custom recoveries when it finds that it is not stock. But for the DX users a 'custom' recovery is not written to the same place as with the D1, hence the need for a 'bootstrap' somethingoranother.

And that's about all I know. Sorry.

good luck
 

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Thanks Ted. I'm struggling along, but figuring things out.
Check out the DF sister forum Droid X Forum as I'm sure you'll get a LOT of information there. Not sure why I'm just thinking of it now. Must be I've had a LOT on my mind the past week or so...
 

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Hello again all

Ok now that I've rooted using this guide how would I go about unrooting if I so desired? Thanks again folks for any help.

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Hello again all

Ok now that I've rooted using this guide how would I go about unrooting if I so desired? Thanks again folks for any help.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk


http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/88278-easy-unroot-process-droid-x.html

Thanks Abe.
One more quick one for you. In the link you provided I found these two lines
- mount -o rw,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- mount -o ro,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
Notice the part that says
. During the process of rooting that same command was written as

Does this make a difference or will the OS deal with it either way?
 

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good catch. it should be -t ext3. system wont recognize the other one.
 

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Hmm maybe should post at other thread to help curb confussion.

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