Hello all. I've had about three Android phones and the TB since day 1. Always been opposed to rooting but I finally want to take the plunge. Need help. Someone told me to get ROM Manager and just get Bamf or CM7 but do I have to root first or will this root my phone? Also, don't I need Titanium Backup to save my existing stuff on my phone?? What are the exact course of actions do I need to do? I would like a Rom that's working and not being tested out at the moment...I can always unroot and back to my original TB, right? Thanks all
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Need help rooting my TB...!!!
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First you must root and unlock your bootloader. Go here.
Once you're finished there, download ROM Manager from the market and use it to flash clockworkmod recovery.
You can't use Titanium Backup until you have root privileges, and the rooting process will wipe all your data. I'm not sure about other methods of backing up apps and/or data...MyBackup Pro, perhaps? Not sure what needs root and what doesn't.
I'm running BAMF 1.8.6 (Froyo with MR2 radio) and I find it to be super stable and functional.
Good luck.
Once you're finished there, download ROM Manager from the market and use it to flash clockworkmod recovery.
You can't use Titanium Backup until you have root privileges, and the rooting process will wipe all your data. I'm not sure about other methods of backing up apps and/or data...MyBackup Pro, perhaps? Not sure what needs root and what doesn't.
I'm running BAMF 1.8.6 (Froyo with MR2 radio) and I find it to be super stable and functional.
Good luck.
Larry_ThaGr81
Active Member
Auto root takes the challenge out of rooting, and is definitely the way to go.
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nonnasmyladie
Member
You know what this is what i needed to force me to root.
I use to flash roms like a maniac on my D1 but the thunderbolt scares me because it is brickable.
but screw it i'm sick of waiting for gb
i'm rooting
nonnasmyladie
Member
so once i root and back up the stock root I will need help flashing the updated radio
No lag here, that might be an issue on some of the gingerbread builds. 1.8.6 is froyo
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A few weeks ago I had rooted with the auto root and everything seemed to be fine. I installed Rom manager and downloaded a Rom but it would never reboot and install like it would it would on my Droid 1. If i I manually went into the boot loader and installed the properly named zip file it would fail. Any one have an idea what went wrong. I would love to root again, but that is holding me back right now.
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nonnasmyladie
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nonnasmyladie
Member
This process seems really simple why is everone making a big deal out of it?
The only question I have is where do i put the downloaded files before i start the process?
The downgrade and upgrade RUUs - wherever, they're eventually going to be put on the root of your sd card as PG05IMG.zip.
The exploits files...I would make a folder called "exploits" or "tb_root" or whatever and unzip all the files into there. Then in your terminal just cd into that directory and follow the instructions.
nonnasmyladie
Member
ok thanks.
I'm going to try this tonight when I get out of work.
Hopefully I won't mess things up too bad.
I heard after I root I should flash the new radio before flashing a ROM or Kernal is that true?