October 1, 2011 Posted by mitch |
android, G2x |
I said I was going to write about my experiences with this... and never came back to it. I've been running custom ROM's since my first post about rooting my G2x. However, I honestly was a little unsure about the whole process so I didn't want to write about the other bits. I went back through and upgraded ClockWorkMod Recovery again, this time it was a little less unnerving so, I will write down my steps here.
First... I'm following bits from this xda thread
I downloaded the rar file and pulled out the bits needed for ClockWorkMod (CWM) 5.0.2.0, so I could flash it from linux. I originally had a script that I used to flash this... my appologies I don't remember where, nor do I want to claim it as my own... I will include it however at the bottom of this post. Anyway, here goes. After grabbing the files above and the nvflash bin and a script, I put all of this in a CWM-5.0.2 directory
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ls -l
total 5008
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 3563520 2011-09-06 20:58 CWM-5020.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 4080 2011-04-21 00:40 E1108_Hynix_512MB_H8TBR00U0MLR-0DM_300MHz_final_emmc_x8.bct
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 1024992 2011-04-21 12:00 fastboot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch 125 2011-10-01 15:59 flash-recovery.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch 526131 2011-10-01 15:58 nvflash
Before running the script, you need to connect your phone, follow these steps:
- pull the battery on my phone
- plug USB cable in laptop
- Hold Volume Up AND Volume Down
- *WHILE* holding #3, plug in USB to phone
This should result in a PCI connection to your phone... Your phone will not do anything.
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ lspci
....
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
From there, you run the flash-recovery.sh script.
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ./flash-recovery.sh
Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: unknown
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3
chip sku: 0xf
chip uid: 0x02884207417fe4d7
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: false
dk burned: false
boot device: emmc
operating mode: 3
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 17
sdram config strap: 0
downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: fastboot.bin
/ 1024992/1024992 bytes sent
fastboot.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
sending file: CWM-5020.img
| 3563520/3563520 bytes sent
CWM-5020.img sent successfully
At this point... you phone will be showing a "software upgrade is in progress" screen...
even after it completes... the above output took around 15 seconds to play out... and they say you can
unplug right after this.. I left it pluged in for another 30 seconds... cause it makes me nervous... (probably
unfounded...)
Download files here
Since my only desktop is my work Lenovo ThinkPad running Ubuntu 11.04, and the bulk of the articles out there reference Windows... I did find a few articles articulating how to root the T-Mobile G2x, but I thought I'd do a full write up here over what exactly I did to root my G2x and will do a followup with flashing a CyanogenMod Nightly to it as well.
First, I downloaded the latest Android SDK from Google
I extracted the tarball and renamed it to androidsdk in my home directory:
$ tar -zxvf Downloads/android-sdk_r11-linux_x86.tgz
$ mv android-sdk-linux_x86 androidsdk
I then added the following to my .bashrc file and load it into your environment variables
$ export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/androidsdk/tools:$HOME/androidsdk/platform-tools
$ source .bashrc
The directory, platform-tools, will not exist yet, and you will need to download the Android SDK Platform-tools. To do this, you will run the command
$ android
This will startup a GUI, click Available packages -> Android Repository -> Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 5 (Revision may be updated... this was the version when I did this)
Click Install Selected wait till finished and close.
Now, we need to update udev to setup the proper device permissions for when we connect our phone.
$ sudo echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1004", MODE="0666"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
the idVendor string is unique per manufacturer, there is a list of them on Android Development here, But I've used the LG one here, since they're the maker of the G2x.
Then you need to restart udev
$ sudo service udev restart
Now... we're almost done. I first attempted to use the SuperOneClick root... which wasn't working for me. I then found a shell script that was a simple root to... thought I'd give it a go, and it worked easily, which can be downloaded on xda
I will note that... at this point, you should be able to connect your phone via USB, turn on USB Debug Mode. Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging. Then run: adb devices. Should return this... or something similar at least... not sure what the hex number is... serial#?
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
02884207417fe4d7 device
After Downloading the G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip and unzipping it.
mitch@kraven:~$ mkdir g2xroot
mitch@kraven:~$ cd g2xroot/
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ unzip ../Downloads/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip
Archive: ../Downloads/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5.zip
creating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/
creating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/adb_linux
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/adb_mac
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/busybox
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/psneuter
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/shared.sh
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/su
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/files/Superuser.apk
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/Readme.txt
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/root.command
inflating: G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/unroot.command
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ ls
G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot$ cd G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5/
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ ls
files Readme.txt root.command unroot.command
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ less Readme.txt
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$ ./root.command
Checking for connected device...
Pushing temporary root exploint (psneuter) to device...
1262 KB/s (585731 bytes in 0.453s)
Running psneuter on device...
property service neutered.
killing adbd. (should restart in a second or two)
Waiting for device...
Remounting /system read/write...
remount succeeded
Pushing su to /system/bin/su...
635 KB/s (26324 bytes in 0.040s)
Pushing busybox to /system/bin/busybox...
1253 KB/s (1062992 bytes in 0.827s)
Installing Superuser.apk android application...
1283 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.149s)
Removing psneuter from device...
Rebooting device...
Once device has rebooted you should be rooted.
Press Enter when you're ready to quit:
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/G2xRootMacLinux_v0.5$
And that was it. Phone is rooted.
Many Thanks to jnichols959 for the scripts!
Next up CyanogenMod Nightly
So... I was just looking back and I never posted that I bought the G2x when it came out!
Whats up with that... I mean... I really love the phone... and I haven't even root' it yet! I will more than likely... waiting for the gingerbread release to come out for it before I jump ship to another custom rom... Wanting to make sure I can always go back to stock. And I know I said it had to have a keyboard... but a dual core phone with a really good screen... and stock android... I went for it. and while at times I miss the keyboard... i'm getting used to swype. I find me avoiding replying to email with my phone however... so I guess it is telling... All and all tho... I don't miss the cliq in the slightest it was a horrible phone. The G2x however, is great. Only thing that I would change in it... a keyboard!
