I know everyone on this website hates noobs, so I'm just going to break the news to you right now, I'm a noob, king noob to be accurate. So now my question: how on gods green earth does one go about rooting an HTC amaze 4G? I swear I've spent hours and hours trying to do it, and it never works. All I can do is unlock the bootloader. After which I then use this software called one click root which runs command prompt and it says "failed". I gave up after numerous fails. I've picked up a pretty bad drug and alcohol habit after not being able to root it. So I really need help.
Are you using my tool?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493905
What does it say EXACTLY on the command prompt screen. Copy and paste it here. You have me for a few mins before I start watching a show and going to sleep.
Adding on to what hasoon said, you can also watch his tutorial video on YouTube here.
super-one-click root isn't for htc devices mostly Motorola and Samsung, use hansoon's AiO toolkit
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I know everyone on this website hates noobs, so I'm just going to break the news to you right now, I'm a noob, king noob to be accurate. So now my question: how on gods green earth does one go about rooting an HTC amaze 4G? I swear I've spent hours and hours trying to do it, and it never works. All I can do is unlock the bootloader. After which I then use this software called one click root which runs command prompt and it says "failed". I gave up after numerous fails. I've picked up a pretty bad drug and alcohol habit after not being able to root it. So I really need help.
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You spent hours and hours trying to use a program on your phone that you didn't even know if it was ok or safe to use on your phone? Rather than spending 10 mins reading how to do it correctly? Always research, read, and make sure you understand what to do before you attempt to do it... If u don't, there's a good chance you will end up with a bricked device.
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Hello,
I'm coming from the Evo. Got my TB today after looking at this forum and seeing all the ROMs but I realize now that I should have paid more attention to the root part of the situation.
I used unrevoked to root the Evo. I have never used ADB or ABD whichever it is and have no clue how to. I have searched the pages of this forum and can not find an answer to is there a 1-click root for the thunderbolt?
MY TB INFO:
2.2.1
1.13.605.7
I read through the manual root but do not think I have the skills to pull that off. So is there a 1-click root and I'm just being a noob and missing it? And if not I know there is one for the droid x and do you think I should take back the TB and get a droid x instead.
All responses are appreciated! (even if they are smartass which I'm sure some will be lol)
it isn't that bad, honestly. I had no background with ADB (I think its ADB, and not ABD), and I went through the command prompts pretty effortlessly. I got scared when I accidently copied two lines and pasted them into the command prompt, but just re did each line separately and it was okay. Unsure if the root method has changed since I did it but my advice is to heavily research it, and not panic if you do start doing it. I was stressed out about it throughout the entire process, when in reality there wasn't much to be worried about. Good luck kind sir.
There are also YouTube videos of the rooting process for the TB that you can watch to get an idea of what you are in for which isn't that bad but so worth it!
I 2nd the youtube vids, worked flawless. Adb for dummies set up, vids, best walkthrough by far... Thanks Natemil
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There is a 3-click method that i used.
What is this 3-click method you speak of?
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What is this 3-click method you speak of?
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This http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005292
I used this one too.
I will give it a shot
The 3-click method is just the manual one with some batch files that do most of the work for you, basically. It's not like an app on your phone. I prefer to do it manually over the one-click apps. It's really not that hard and you can pretty much be guaranteed it's going to work right. Do a little reading and go do it. It's really simple.
Well the majority seems to lean towards the manual root. I guess I will study up on the youtube videos and attempt. I just don't want to brick my phone. The fear sets in....
Just get ready to pause. Youtube video is pretty damn easy!
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Well the majority seems to lean towards the manual root. I guess I will study up on the youtube videos and attempt. I just don't want to brick my phone. The fear sets in....
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i used the so called "3 click root method" they were talking about and it didn't work for me 2 times so i did it manually. there is also a youtube video that shows how to set up your computer with adb as well since you said you've never used it
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Well the majority seems to lean towards the manual root. I guess I will study up on the youtube videos and attempt. I just don't want to brick my phone. The fear sets in....
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haven't heard of one person actually bricking their phone yet (i'm coming from a droid x that i bricked twice so i was ultra cautious)
the root looks scary but all you got to do is follow instructions...i knew nothing about ADB going into this and now i don't hesitate to flash anything.
good luck man...plenty of people here to help
p.s. i used the "permaroot" method by jcase (check sticky's) and i would not recommend anything else...he is very well trusted around here and i have had zero issues with losing root or flashing rom's, ruu's and kernels...and i flash new ones daily! droid x was a nightmare!!!! you are in good hands lol
Thank you all for your replies! Funny how one community is nicer than another.
All very helpful! I guess I'm just used to the evo forums where it wasn't acceptable to be a noob lol.
I am going to get a good night sleep and attack the manual root tomorrow.
Thanks again!!!!
SUCCESS!! WE HAVE ROOT!!
Took about an hour but if you go through the instructions slowly everything works out just fine. The longest part was getting adb setup correctly for me.
Thanks again for all the help!
ive been rooting all my phones since the droid 1. i have a pretty good understanding of adb and ive still always used the easy root methods. i used the 3 step method and if you follow all the instructions it works perfectly. as long as you dont do exactly what it tells you not to theres no worry about bricking your phone which, with all the devs out there, theres really no need to worry about anymore. you can usually get it up and working again no matter how bad you screw it up.
Hello everyone. I was looking at the rooting instructions like damnnn. Lots of steps. I remember when i had the og EVO or my vibrant I could root it and download a custom rom just using my phone. It was just put zip on root of SD card, apply zip, use that ROM changer app to download/apply custom ROM. Bam done. Is the 3D ever going to be that or no?
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I didn't mean to say the rooting process is too much, its just not as simple as before.
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I love the steps..Makes me feel like im actually rooting the phone..Thats just me though,I enjoy the process.
I'm not sure exactly what the exploit is that gets s-off so its hard to say if there will ever be a 1 click method or easier way.My guess is someone will make an easier way of doing it in the future.
Yea Rooting the vibrant 3g was very simple I used z4root it only takes 2mins.. One phone that took me the longest to root was Mytouch 4g because there's alot of steps to do.
It's about as close to one click as you can get with out being one click. all you need to do is run revolutionary and flash su. Even the old one clicks you still had to click to download then click to run, thats two clicks right there. Thats not counting the whole pluging your phone in. Personally I was impressed at how easy it was right away.
Maybe one day all you will need to do is put your 3vo under your pillow and the root fairy will come down and do it for you and leave a shiny quarter(not trying to be a prick here just funny)
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It's about as close to one click as you can get with out being one click. all you need to do is run revolutionary and flash su. Even the old one clicks you still had to click to download then click to run, thats two clicks right there. Thats not counting the whole pluging your phone in. Personally I was impressed at how easy it was right away.
Maybe one day all you will need to do is put your 3vo under your pillow and the root fairy will come down and do it for you and leave a shiny quarter(not trying to be a prick here just funny)
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It sounds simple when you say it like that lol. There's the command prompts and the sdk blah blah I'm not computer litterate but I try because I love my phone. LOL I wish there was a root fairy, and free money too? Win.
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I found it obscenely simple... Lol
My nook was a pain my nuts. The G1 was a ***** without the data Sim card, and the my touch 3g was almost as big of a pain. I'd root another Evo 3D in a heart beat. OG Evo was easier, but not by much.
My buddies fascinate is also a bit of a pain with versions of cwm having to match the rom, modem problems, and more.
E3D'ed... Booyah!
Well, i am not trying to be an asshole, but 1. I think we can't really complain about put a little bit of thinking to get what the devs put way more thinking and effort into. 2. It clearly states that it's a test beta release. maybe when it is actually finalized it will be easier to use.
No.. not too much at all.
I rooted a MyTouch Fender ... That was a process and a half. Required a Goldcard, flashing engineering hboot, flashing rom/kernel and then reflashing the retail hboot.
Hassle...
This.
Input serial
Run Revolutionary
Input serial...
Umm.... Oh yeah, that's all.
Are We Not Phones?
We Are D3VO!
Are we not phones?!
3.DeE.V.O.!!
Flonkas said:
It sounds simple when you say it like that lol. There's the command prompts and the sdk blah blah I'm not computer litterate but I try because I love my phone. LOL I wish there was a root fairy, and free money too? Win.
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To be honest with you....As much of a hassle as you think it is, learning how to use ADB and the neccessary commands from the computer is truly in your best interest. There very well may come a time when you need those very commands to recovery your phone from a bad flash or simple mistake. A lot of people use the simple root method, jump in head first and get into some serious trouble without having the neccessary knowledge to fix said problems. Just something to think about.
rooting the evo 3d was beyond easy.
i feel the evo 4g took more to root. i didnt even feel like i was rooting a phone flashed a few zips and i was done..
anyone saying its difficult or was to many steps will be the first to get bootlooped and wonder why.
Too much? I thought is was pretty simple. Click the bat file & let it go. Then type Y or N to install CWM. Then reboot into recovery & flash Su. Pretty damn easy. No need for ADB unless you want to flash Twerp & now they have a PCM files you just place on root of SD & reboot into Bootloader to flash. You must weren't around when the root & nand unlock first came out for the Hero & OG Evo. Now that got a little complicated. This is very simple.
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This thread proves exactly why HTC should NOT release an unlocked bootloader to the masses!
I am by no means trying to flame on ya OP, but if you consider the root utility for the 3D difficult you should start reading some more or not even be rooting at all.
This utility makes the rooting process cake. If this seems difficult you need to read up on ADB etc. This is a lot easier than the original rooting processes for most phones if you go back a few years. Try rooting using all command prompt with 25 steps that you have to do manually.
I hope that this isn't taken the wrong way, but this is the reason that carriers frown upon rooting...Because people get themselves into something that they shouldn't and end up using insurance at an excessive rate because they brick phones.
Sorry for my rant, just wanted to give my .02
Wow...this root process was super easy...took less then 5min for me...
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This thread proves exactly why HTC should NOT release an unlocked bootloader to the masses!
I am by no means trying to flame on ya OP, but if you consider the root utility for the 3D difficult you should start reading some more or not even be rooting at all.
This utility makes the rooting process cake. If this seems difficult you need to read up on ADB etc. This is a lot easier than the original rooting processes for most phones if you go back a few years. Try rooting using all command prompt with 25 steps that you have to do manually.
I hope that this isn't taken the wrong way, but this is the reason that carriers frown upon rooting...Because people get themselves into something that they shouldn't and end up using insurance at an excessive rate because they brick phones.
Sorry for my rant, just wanted to give my .02
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No worries. I think I have been spoiled with super easy one click root methods so i never had to learn adb or any of that. Just remember not everyone on xda are mega proficient with computers, guess I got some researching to do.
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klbjr;16233680 You must weren't around when the root & nand unlock first came out for the Hero & OG Evo. Now that got a little complicated. This is very simple.
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Those were a pain sometimes. It kept the riff raff out though. You had to be a pretty brave individual to go through that process, I think my brain exploded 3 times before I successfully rooted my hero.
The worst was I bought a g1 off ebay about a year ago, It was completely up to date and the bastard left his security lock on! We have no tmobile service here so I had to do all kinds of crazy ADB commands just to get past the gmail sign in because of having no sim card(back then you couldn't turn on wifi until you got past that point). Plus the whole rooting it too. What I'll do just to have buttons for my emulators.
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Agreed. I didn't even have to use adb to get twrp..just a flash in recovery. Painless. I can't see it needing to be any easier. I am impressed with how well executed Revolutionary is.
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i thought it was very simple compared to the other 5 phones i have done, its funny usually when we first get s-off its a pretty hard process for noobs, but congrats to unrevoked and alpharev for completing this one, and making a nice zip to do it
For the OP:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196131
Haven't tried it myself but here's a method without using ADB.
I tried to root my phone using the regawmod process on my PC. i followed the steps until the first reboot…i put the debugging option on the phone when it rebooted because everything got wiped as it said it would and then the phone went completely black as if it was rebooting as it should..but never reloaded..i cant turn my phone on or anything..phone was charged to 65%..so i know it couldn’t have died that quick..What happened?? please help!
hmmmm....
not sure what to tell you man.
hold power button for a while, until you see it reboot... IF you see it reboot. should happen within ten seconds....
if you have root access..... download quickboot and try to boot into recovery.
we'll go from there.
also, plug device into comp and see if it detects it.
assuming you installed all drivers necessary and software packages from that thread, correct?
I did everything to the T...I tried to connect to the PC again and it did not detect the phone, and still wouldn't turn on..so i took it as a loss and took the phone back to the store and they gave me a new one because it wouldn't turn on...I appreciate the reply back.:good:
probably wasn't bricked, btw
This kind of makes me worry..... with what everybody has used, which would be considered the "best" to use? This is my work phone and I'm ok to root it and what-not; heck, I root my co-workers phones all the time so I'm no noob at all to this. Thanks!
I don't know what happened but I tried again, started with fresh files and it worked..I'm thinking one of the files got corrupted our wasnt being recognized by my PC...but now I'm enjoying my rooted phone!
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This kind of makes me worry..... with what everybody has used, which would be considered the "best" to use? This is my work phone and I'm ok to root it and what-not; heck, I root my co-workers phones all the time so I'm no noob at all to this. Thanks!
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Regaw is the best to use, I would say. This is the only case of this I've heard and I've followed the thread from day 1. A few did have it fail part way thru, but then just reran it and all went fine.
If you want S-off, there is the lazy panda method now. But I've seen way to many bricks on that thread to recommend it to anyone. But I guess they're also working constantly on a fix for those bricks and have had measured success (from what I've read).
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Every one of your 4 posts have been negative on regaw's process and your experience...
Here is a little tip of advice for you that MIGHT lead you to getting actual valuable answers to your problem...
PM Regaw....I'd say post in his thread but you dont have 10 posts...
Regardless I can promise you that creating a new thread each time you try is NOT going to help your situation at all.
OK. I just wanna say that this has got to be the MOST difficult device to unlock & root. I just spent the past 2+hrs trying! I was trying to unlock & root my girlfriend's phone but it is just not happening. I watched a million videos on youtube and even read all the tutorials. Its just not working. I am stuck at the part where my command says "waiting for device"...I would LOVE for someone to help me with this...message me...or whatever. I know this thread will probably be deleted anyway..so send me a message because I am SUPER frustrated!
I have a Galaxy Nexus and it took 5 minutes to do everything I wanted to do!
Fix you install the drivers onto the computer?
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If U read my post.. I said I have read everything and watched every YouTube video about it and I cannot do it. That is why I made this post to get answers. If not, that's fine... Not my phone anyway.
Thanks for your "help"... NOT.
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Thanks for your "help"... NOT.
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This attitude won't get you far in this community so if you would really like help from others start behaving like a decent man and not just like some "too cool gangsta for this forum".
Try unlocking and rooting your girlfriend's phone on some other computer available to you.
I followed this tutorial and i unlocked mine in matter of minutes.
http://androidforums.com/3892643-post2.html
Good luck.
So you tried a couple of hours...
I actually tried for days. Weeks went by and still could not get the wire trick to work. Same thing... it said: "Waiting for device".
Finally, I read in a forum to try a different computer and that's what I did. Made sure that HTC Sync and stuff like Double Twist were not installed. Re-installed the adb and usb drivers. And still did not work the first time I tried it. So, I went into Device Manager and deleted the Android Phone entry. The computer then re-installed adb by itself. After that, I finally got the "Do the wire trick" message!!!!
It took me three or four tries before finally getting it.
Now I am S-Off and downgraded to Eng hboot. Installed Team Dirt's AOKP Rom and could not be happier. It is so smooth that I have kept it as my daily driver, even though it is still missing a couple of things.
So, definitely try using another computer. Even better if it has never been connected to an android phone and you can install the drivers from scratch.
Hope that helps.
So as you can see, others agree that it might be a driver issue since "waiting for device" usually means the phone is not being seen by the computer due to the drivers not being installed.
But I don't know what I'm talking about because it took me only one hour to root and s-off my phone just by reading the directions. I must be a moron. :banghead:
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I had that "waiting for device" problem before (am using Desire S tho), and to my surprise, the solution to that was to change my data cable. I used the one from HTC, and solved by using a generic one.
and yeah, that attitude needs a chmod..
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So as you can see, others agree that it might be a driver issue since "waiting for device" usually means the phone is not being seen by the computer due to the drivers not being installed.
But I don't know what I'm talking about because it took me only one hour to root and s-off my phone just by reading the directions. I must be a moron. :banghead:
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Or USB debugging might be disabled.
I was going through the DirtyRacun steps and finally got to the RabiesShot point. As it was running, I noticed it was stuck on "Is that a corndog?" Where I got to the point where it had about 5 lines of periods and nothing. The phone will no longer turn on. It's doing absolutely nothing. What the hell should I do?
Also, why the hell is it such a nightmare to get this phone S-OFF? Every other phone I've owned, it was so damn simple. This thing, it's like trying to wrestly a damn bear.
Please help.
Edit: Nevermind, I had to use the RacunHunter to get it out. Mods can close thread if they'd like.
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I was going through the DirtyRacun steps and finally got to the RabiesShot point. As it was running, I noticed it was stuck on "Is that a corndog?" Where I got to the point where it had about 5 lines of periods and nothing. The phone will no longer turn on. It's doing absolutely nothing. What the hell should I do?
Also, why the hell is it such a nightmare to get this phone S-OFF? Every other phone I've owned, it was so damn simple. This thing, it's like trying to wrestly a damn bear.
Please help.
Edit: Nevermind, I had to use the RacunHunter to get it out. Mods can close thread if they'd like.
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I have done that same step getting stuck on the corndog part 3 times now and I was able to unbrick 3 times now and I am not sure what is going on. I had a launch day evo with a rooted 1.12, but its been having some issues and I had to rma it and now I am trying to unlock this new one and it is a real pia compared to first rooting it.
using a 2gb microsd with ubuntu live 13, were you able to get it working?
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I have done that same step getting stuck on the corndog part 3 times now and I was able to unbrick 3 times now and I am not sure what is going on. I had a launch day evo with a rooted 1.12, but its been having some issues and I had to rma it and now I am trying to unlock this new one and it is a real pia compared to first rooting it.
using a 2gb microsd with ubuntu live 13, were you able to get it working?
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Yeah I was. The second time I ran it, the only things I changed was using the actual HTC USB cable. I don't really think this made a difference but, I gave it a whirl anyway.