Yes another question about rooting.

[shellc0de]

So, I have the official 2.1 firmware, and can't find any of my options for rooting because when I search/google I get a million "from 1.5 to leaked 2.1 root eris!" when I want to go from official 2.1 to rooted 2.1.

Shouldn't be a hard task right? I just need to escalate privilages so I can access the /data/ folder and whatnot, but why does it have to be so difficult? lol. If it helps I don't want any of those weird-o ROMs I just need root access so I can debug my phone properly with adb.

 

[Bob Dammit]

Read the top sticky in this board. Follow all the steps down to where you flash the rom. You will need to flash an OC kernel, if you want to rub your phone faster.

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[shellc0de]

Well I'm at the droidone010 app step, and when I run it, click okay okay, root me please, it just closes the app and nothing happens...I think its supposed to reboot on its own? So I shut down the phone, tried to go in recovery mode and nothing, turn back on the phone, run the app again, still nothing, it doesn't reboot on its own.

EDIT: alright with enough playing I managed to flash the rootme.zip file to my phone, then I rebooted, but when I open astro I can't navagate to the /data folder still, is there something I missed or does it take a new rom to be completely 'rooted'

 

[Bob Dammit]

Download terminal emulator from the market. Open it, and type su and hit the enter key at the prompt. The command prompt icon chould change from "$" to "#" if you are rooted.

 

[shellc0de]

Ah I figured out 90% of this so far, I downloaded some root only apps like the terminal and the explorer, and noticed that they have to ask for root permissions from the new 'superuser permissions' app that appeared on my phone. I also noticed theres no way to make the app give root to other programs, they have to ask for it themselves, which leads me to my FINAL question before this thread can be locked, and that is how do I make it so that adb.exe has root permissions when I debug my phone with the USB cable?

 

[Bob Dammit]

You have to "tell" adb to run as "su".
adb shell
su
do what you want.
Think of shell via adb as running Terminal Emulator from your computer.

PS: That will fix your sig line, lol

 

[shellc0de]

Aha! I just noticed the little message popped up asking me if I want to allow it root privs, alright everything works great now! lol thanks for all the help.