Rooting Tbolt - Win XP, Win7 or Ubuntu 11.10? - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I just picked up a new Tbolt, sealed in the box. Has not been activated yet.
I am going to root it and have rooted many Dinc, Evos etc with Unrevoked, but I have never been able to obtain root on windows and always have used Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)
Should I stick with Ubuntu (now on 11.10 but can revert as its a spare computer) or is it better to use the current revolutionary with Windows?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance

jimmyUT said:
So I just picked up a new Tbolt, sealed in the box. Has not been activated yet.
I am going to root it and have rooted many Dinc, Evos etc with Unrevoked, but I have never been able to obtain root on windows and always have used Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)
Should I stick with Ubuntu (now on 11.10 but can revert as its a spare computer) or is it better to use the current revolutionary with Windows?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
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Revolutionary. Definitely.
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LeftyGR said:
Revolutionary. Definitely.
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I am definitely using Revolutionary, but they offer it for Windows and Linux, that what I am up in the air about... which did you use? and what version of Windows or Linux did you use?
Also, I see you are running Infected... looks pretty sick and has good feedback...is that the first ROM you would suggest flashing?
Thanks

Worked fine on windows 7 64-bit for me.
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Cool. I will give it s try on my win 7 laptop then....
Thanks for feedback
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Worked on both win 7 64bit and Vista 64bit.
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Ok, I will give Win 7 64 bit a try.
One more question:
Does it matter if I root before I activate the phone?
I have rooted in past before activation, but this is my first 4g LTE phone, so not sure with the SIM card and all that.
Thanks

Revolutionary works fine on Vista as well
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I've used Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 and revolutionary worked well on both. I would activate the phone before you root. No real reason, its just my opinion.

Damn... I was gonna root before but I will wait. It's a Christmas present to myself so I was planning in opening up a rooted phone...but I guess ill have have all Xmas day to do that after the kids pass out from excitement
Hehe
Thanks for advice...very much appreciated
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Just got the bolt from best buy mobile. I traded my Dinc2 for this. I only paid $2 for it with trade in. They updated the phone to android 2.3.4 , can I still root it with revo tool even though it has been updated.
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Yes... On of the mods on the irc revolutionary Chanel verified that for me today. He said it will work on any Android version, but hboot needs to be 1.04 or 1.05
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I rooted my wife's phone via Revolutionary on Gentoo (~amd64) a couple weeks ago. She was already at the latest OTA release. For the most part it worked fine. I did have to manually download and install ClockworkMod (somethng was hardcoded that broke on Gentoo). Overall it was a painless process.

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evo 3D HBoot 1.5 to 1.4 downgrade Process is deff recommended!!!

I just did the downgrade in about hour in time(coulda been shorted but I recommend it be done in a PC desktop. If you havent done it......DO IT!! so far I been goin flashcrazy with the freedom of the 1.4////
this is just my 2 cents.
to brick..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695
then to use this toolkit was maddddd easy!!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563342
thanks to closeone http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4432252
and
unknownforce http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1354510
I'm itching to do this, can you do it with Windows operating system?? I know the commands are in Linux. Is there a program I can install to write Linux commands from a Windows computer?? Or is it included in closeone's CD?? Thanks.
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gump4696 said:
I'm itching to do this, can you do it with Windows operating system?? I know the commands are in Linux. Is there a program I can install to write Linux commands from a Windows computer?? Or is it included in closeone's CD?? Thanks.
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Everything you need should be included in closeone's Live CD. Just boot it up on your PC and follow the tut. Should have it done in no time.
I've been doing a lot of reading in preparation for rooting my Evo 3D that I've had since launch and with all the cool tools now available, there hardly seems to be any benefit to downgrade to HBOOT 1.4. Am I missing something?
Iceman248 said:
I've been doing a lot of reading in preparation for rooting my Evo 3D that I've had since launch and with all the cool tools now available, there hardly seems to be any benefit to downgrade to HBOOT 1.4. Am I missing something?
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Its just easier to flash things with soff plus you have more control power over your phone
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I had no linux experience whatsoever, very limited knowledge of command terminals, and a lot if anxiety before I dove in and gave it a shot. I'm a total newb, just come on here to listen to the devs chat about what's going on with roms and flash a new one here and there blah blah blah. I maybe even should have realized I had no business trying the downgrade to 1.4 but I did it anyway. It was absofrickinlutely EASY, and all I did was follow and mimic EXACTLY what was in the videos. If some arbitrary know nothing newb like me can research for a couple hours how to make sense of the steps and get through it, the rest of you who haven't jumped should have no problem whatsoever! Just throwing that out there for what its worth.
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Definitely not a hard process, and the newest tool I put out makes it super easy, but yes linux is still required at this time.
Thanks
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i put ubuntu on my laptop using the windows installer will that work or not?
Bighurt196 said:
i put ubuntu on my laptop using the windows installer will that work or not?
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Yes
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Pure mac rooting??

Ok. Will there ever be a way to root the AT&T Note via Mac? Keep in mind, I am refering to pure OSX, not running Windows underneath. If not what are the obstacles? Anyone willing to join me in donating to this cause?
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Just download Odin on a friends PC and root
shouldnt take no more than 10 mins
then im prety sure you can just DL roms on your mac and transfer them and
flash away
I finally gave up waiting for a OSX rooting process. Finally just went the bootcamp route.
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I haven't tried this but would "DooMLoRD's Easy Rooting Toolkit" work on the Note.

Lazy Panda Brick=Lazy Mac

Ended up bricking my phone using Lazy Panda, and could not even get it to power on. It was taking too long to d/l Ubuntu, so, I decided that in the time it would take me to get it all going, I could jump over to BB and utilize my black tie protection and swap it out, lol. And now, a new Evo to play with. Guess I'll wait for a safer s-off method.
iandmacdonald said:
Ended up bricking my phone using Lazy Panda, and could not even get it to power on. It was taking too long to d/l Ubuntu, so, I decided that in the time it would take me to get it all going, I could jump over to BB and utilize my black tie protection and swap it out, lol. And now, a new Evo to play with. Guess I'll wait for a safer s-off method.
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Windows? Mac? What were you using? Were you S-On or S-off? Unlocked by HTC or another method.
I was Htc unlocked, S-On and used lazy panda for Windows and had zero issues. Took all of about 8 mins and i was S-off. really simple.
swaze said:
Windows? Mac? What were you using? Were you S-On or S-off? Unlocked by HTC or another method.
I was Htc unlocked, S-On and used lazy panda for Windows and had zero issues. Took all of about 8 mins and i was S-off. really simple.
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I am now S-off using Lazy Panda. I was Regaw unlocked, while on Mean 1.3. I tried this again using stock right after regaw unlocker and worked flawless.
iandmacdonald said:
I am now S-off using Lazy Panda. I was Regaw unlocked, while on Mean 1.3. I tried this again using stock right after regaw unlocker and worked flawless.
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Why would you run the Regaw unlocker before running LazyPanda?? LazyPanda doesn't void ur warranty like the Regaw HTC method....
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SPreston2001 said:
Why would you run the Regaw unlocker before running LazyPanda?? LazyPanda doesn't void ur warranty like the Regaw HTC method....
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You have to have root before you can use lazypanda for s- off
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SPreston2001 said:
Why would you run the Regaw unlocker before running LazyPanda?? LazyPanda doesn't void ur warranty like the Regaw HTC method....
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Nobody uses the HTC warranty. It's pretty useless.
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Feed Panda with VM
I completed the s-off proceedure using an ubuntu vm in vmware on my Mac. If you are going to do this make sure you set the USB setting for the ubuntu vm to Always connect USB devices to it (the vm) instead of the host.
The only other thing that happened was after the panda was fed I started getting an error 16 when making phone calls and people could not call me. A quick call to Sprint, telling them after a hard reset I started getting the error they put me back on the network and everything is good.
One more bit of info, I tried to feed the panda on my old mac mini g4 that is running linux instead of OSX and received an expected ( error. Which points to not having the right libraries installed, 64 vs 32 but I think it has to do more with the processor architecture (g4 vs i386).

ANY one know how to s- off with Windows 7 64 hboot 119

Just as the title states, New replacement phone..
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Dirty Racun on Ubuntu Live Cd.
64bit is not supported because of driver issues. Some have succeeded with it but that's a gamble and you won't get support from unlimited.io team.
How do I get the live cd?
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http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
I used 12.04. Just make sure its the 32bit. Choose to donate or not. It should download an ISO. Just burn that with imgburn or your preferred burning program.
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Or you can use a usb and/or sd card
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I achieved S-off couple of days ago with windows 7 and 64 bit. I had no problems at all.
There are well known driver issues with 64 bit which is why a 32 bit system is required.
Download any iso for linux live and burn to CD. Or run from Windows 8 which works as well but you should get 64bit working since it works for me. Try deleting, registry entries etc and reinstall the correct drivers. Hope that helps.
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you can gamble on the x64 but I've done it several times and I haven't experienced a brick yet
Thanks, its pretty easy, HTC dev was down, so I reached out to regaw-lenaid, he took my identifier code and sent me unlock token through his account, I am now s-offed once again!!
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Also looking to get s off. Just bought the phone and updated to 3.16 like an idiot. I can't find anything compatible with windows 8.
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greeneperson said:
Also looking to get s off. Just bought the phone and updated to 3.16 like an idiot. I can't find anything compatible with windows 8.
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3.16 is currently not supported for s-off. And windows 8 is not supported. You'll probably have to use a live disc of ubuntu.
om4 said:
There are well known driver issues with 64 bit which is why a 32 bit system is required.
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You just have to use the universal drivers on 7-64
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE
laie1472 said:
You just have to use the universal drivers on 7-64
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE
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Universal drivers? Can you link please
bigdaddy619 said:
Universal drivers? Can you link please
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Yup here ya go. I've used them for quite some time haven't had any issues. YMMV.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583316
The link is inside of the thread.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE
laie1472 said:
Yup here ya go. I've used them for quite some time haven't had any issues. YMMV.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583316
The link is inside of the thread.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE
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I'm out of thanks so THANKS
bigdaddy619 said:
I'm out of thanks so THANKS
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Lmfao. Thanks man .
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I was worried about doing the procedure using 64 bit but it worked for me as well.
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Yes, it works on win 7 64 bit, was pretty easy...I do suggest you have adb preinstalled though, process was seamless.
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[Q] Hi im new and i need help with s off

Okay i have a htc evo 4g lte and i have the viper 4g rom on it, (3.1.4) I rooted my phone when i first got it a long time ago and now i come to discover that it is still s on. I want to try to get it s off but i have hboot 1.12 and i dont have a linux so i cant use dirty racoon. I was looking for lazy panda but its no where to be found, even the website took it down. I am running on windows 7 and i dont want to change that. is there any way i can get s off on my evo? Also any roms you guys recommend? i haven't tried exploring past viper rom and cm10. But can someone please help ive spent all day googling and looking on here but all i can come up with is lazy panda and i wish i had the lazy panda software, and the other one i saw was dirty racoon and i dont have a linux to use it with. :crying:
Smileymk6 said:
Okay i have a htc evo 4g lte and i have the viper 4g rom on it, (3.1.4) I rooted my phone when i first got it a long time ago and now i come to discover that it is still s on. I want to try to get it s off but i have hboot 1.12 and i dont have a linux so i cant use dirty racoon. I was looking for lazy panda but its no where to be found, even the website took it down. I am running on windows 7 and i dont want to change that. is there any way i can get s off on my evo? Also any roms you guys recommend? i haven't tried exploring past viper rom and cm10. But can someone please help ive spent all day googling and looking on here but all i can come up with is lazy panda and i wish i had the lazy panda software, and the other one i saw was dirty racoon and i dont have a linux to use it with. :crying:
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Wrong section. Use dirtyracun while using windows command instead of sudo ./
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Smileymk6 said:
Okay i have a htc evo 4g lte and i have the viper 4g rom on it, (3.1.4) I rooted my phone when i first got it a long time ago and now i come to discover that it is still s on. I want to try to get it s off but i have hboot 1.12 and i dont have a linux so i cant use dirty racoon. I was looking for lazy panda but its no where to be found, even the website took it down. I am running on windows 7 and i dont want to change that. is there any way i can get s off on my evo? Also any roms you guys recommend? i haven't tried exploring past viper rom and cm10. But can someone please help ive spent all day googling and looking on here but all i can come up with is lazy panda and i wish i had the lazy panda software, and the other one i saw was dirty racoon and i dont have a linux to use it with. :crying:
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Use FacePalm it's much easier
bigdaddy619 said:
Use FacePalm it's much easier
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Dirtyracun is funner
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Delakit said:
Dirtyracun is funner
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I tired both and I couldn't get it to S-Off. n00bing
bigdaddy619 said:
Use FacePalm it's much easier
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I second facepalm.
I did run into a strange issue where I had to manually
eboot to bootloader and fastboot & issue the commands. I'm first to experience that problem. Other than that it worked great.
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scttydb411 said:
I second facepalm.
I did run into a strange issue where I had to manually
eboot to bootloader and fastboot & issue the commands. I'm first to experience that problem. Other than that it worked great.
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I also had to upgrade supersu to pro version. For some reason it wouldn't grant root to adb trying the sipercid commands.
poetxo said:
I tired both and I couldn't get it to S-Off. n00bing
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If you're on the latest firmware you'll need to use Babyracun to downgrade and then continue with Dirtyracun or Facepalm. I did Babyracun and then Facepalm.
scttydb411 said:
I second facepalm.
I did run into a strange issue where I had to manually
eboot to bootloader and fastboot & issue the commands. I'm first to experience that problem. Other than that it worked great.
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I also had to upgrade supersu to pro version. For some reason it wouldn't grant root to adb trying the sipercid commands.
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Weird. Never had any of those issues.
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Delakit said:
Dirtyracun is funner
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How so?
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scottspa74 said:
How so?
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More of a challenge. End result is cleaner.
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Smileymk6 said:
Okay i have a htc evo 4g lte and i have the viper 4g rom on it, (3.1.4) I rooted my phone when i first got it a long time ago and now i come to discover that it is still s on. I want to try to get it s off but i have hboot 1.12 and i dont have a linux so i cant use dirty racoon. I was looking for lazy panda but its no where to be found, even the website took it down. I am running on windows 7 and i dont want to change that. is there any way i can get s off on my evo? Also any roms you guys recommend? i haven't tried exploring past viper rom and cm10. But can someone please help ive spent all day googling and looking on here but all i can come up with is lazy panda and i wish i had the lazy panda software, and the other one i saw was dirty racoon and i dont have a linux to use it with. :crying:
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I was in the same position, just ended up borrowing a friend's macbook. Going S-Off on Linux is mockingly easy.
Try hopping on a friend's macbook for an hour or so?
Or Google Ubuntu live cd or usb.
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I didn't even know what Ubuntu was and I was able to get s-off. I suggest you make a live cd and play around with it until you feel comfortable. Its easy just follow the directions to the letter, and download all the files completly first before you try starting the s-off process. Thats what I didn't do and kept getting an error. Team Unlimited also has a support channel.
thicklizard said:
Or Google Ubuntu live cd or usb.
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Or use Windows. Lol. It was doable in the past and it still is. Well, last I checked, about a month ago.
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Delakit said:
Or use Windows. Lol. It was doable in the past and it still is. Well, last I checked, about a month ago.
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They dropped windows support, so unless he can find an older version, live cd it is.
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It says that I need to use the 32 bit version on ubuntu but I have a 64 bit windows 8 os. Well this work?
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Adebayo88 said:
It says that I need to use the 32 bit version on ubuntu but I have a 64 bit windows 8 os. Well this work?
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Burn a LiveCD
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A 32 bit or i386 Os will work on a x64 system. However you can install x64 Ubuntu and just install all the dependencies required using the i386 flag on apt-get
Edit: I recommend just getting the 32bit live cd or usb
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But it says
(((We only support Ubuntu 12.04 (and newer) 32bit, you may use a LiveCD if you have the wrong OS installed natively. LiveUSB will NOT work!))) Can i use usb any ways?
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jaysonpeyton said:
But it says
(((We only support Ubuntu 12.04 (and newer) 32bit, you may use a LiveCD if you have the wrong OS installed natively. LiveUSB will NOT work!))) Can i use usb any ways?
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Some have had success using LiveUSB but is it worth the risk?
jaysonpeyton said:
But it says
(((We only support Ubuntu 12.04 (and newer) 32bit, you may use a LiveCD if you have the wrong OS installed natively. LiveUSB will NOT work!))) Can i use usb any ways?
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They say live usb interferes with usb connection at times. Better to play it safe like big daddy said. Live CD is easy, I use img burn to burn the iso.
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