Sprint 2.1 leak

[mbell75]

Yep, it's an EXE. Do you have Parallel's or Virtual Box?

No I dont.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

mbell75

Be safe. Just root your phone and use one of the other options in the first post. That's easy to do from a Mac, and you won't get stuck with the leak in case the what-if's turn out to be true.

 

[Darth Pooh#CB]

mbell75

Be safe. Just root your phone and use one of the other options in the first post. That's easy to do from a Mac, and you won't get stuck with the leak in case the what-if's turn out to be true.

What-if's happen all the time... ask ERIS owners.

 

[mbell75]

I can download the file just fine on my Mac and if its going to my phone, it shouldnt matter right? When I had my Touch Pro, I could download and install CAB files on it although Mac doesnt read or understand CAB files.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

The RUU leak is a Windows only .exe though. You don't install it on the phone, you run it from a Windows PC.

Yes, that sucks. I'm not a Mac guy but I am a Linux guy. Forcing people to use Windows is never the right choice, but since this was a leak and not intended for the general public I'll forgive HTC.

This time.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

I don't know why you really need a PC. For reference, I'm doing this all from my Mac. You can root on a mac, and you can also transfer the files to the sd card through usb. I already have 2.1 on my phone, but if you don't use the first option, you can still put the other ones onto your phone and flash them.

Market issue, I haven't flashed it yet, just got it on there, will report back in like 10 minutes though with what I see.

Paid apps aren't showing.

 

[mbell75]

Ok, so if I am going to do that 2nd option as was suggested, what do i do? Download it, hook up my phone to my Mac and drop that file on my phone somewhere?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Are you rooted? You need root and a custom recovery first. Next, drag and drop directly into the sd card (where you see folders and misc files).
*Backup first (just in case), then
*Wipe, then
*Flash, then, most importantly...
have fun!!! 2.1 brings lots of awesome things.

 

[mbell75]

Ok, so I DO have to root first. Alot of people were saying you dont.

 

[Darth Pooh#CB]

Ok, so I DO have to root first. Alot of people were saying you dont.

Def have to root, follow gbhil's awesome post about how to root in the original post in this thread. He linked it for you as well as I did in post #14. It's a bit of a read but very easy since it's laid out STEP BY STEP.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

You will need to SDK installed (you don't need to install Eclipse) For mac.
Also, since linux and macosx are Unix based... you follow all the steps the same but no

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools\

instead you would get to the SDK folder like this:

cd /Users/NAME OF COMPUTER/SDK FOLDER NAME/tools

Unix uses forward slashes (hence while everything phone side is /// since its linux based
And you do all of this in terminal
I may create a video tutorial later.

Also instead of just typing adb devices you will need to type ./adb device and ./ before anything and it should work.

 

[edders]

Got everything correct rooting from the start. Loaded new custom ROM and phone just constantly restarts. Any help? Thanks.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Got everything correct rooting from the start. Loaded new custom ROM and phone just constantly restarts. Any help? Thanks.

Wipe everything
I mentioned ealier you don't need to wipe ext, but you do.
Wipe Data/factory reset
Wipe Dalvik
Wipe Ext
Wipe battery
Wipe rotation

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Got everything correct rooting from the start. Loaded new custom ROM and phone just constantly restarts. Any help? Thanks.

which custom ROM did you load?

Did you wipe data/factory reset from the recovery image?

 

[edders]

no I did not. I used the second option ROM. I'll give wiping a go. Thank you

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

no I did not. I used the second option ROM. I'll give wiping a go. Thank you

I got the endless boot with not wiping ext (you might not have to wipe it if you don't wipe dalvik?) i dunno clean install worked.

 

[smccloud]

can i get by with wiping my ext3 partition on my sd card and not the fat32 partition (you know, the one with my music and stuff) or do i need to back that up first?

 

[edders]

Got error wiping Ext/SD but tried to install again. Now I get an error.
E:Can't chown/mod /data/app
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 388:
set_perm 1000 1000 0771 DATA:app

Installation aborted

Am I supposed to be wiping using the phone recovery mode or is there another way?

 

[bbpinoy]

very newbie question, is this GSM or CDMA leak?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

can i get by with wiping my ext3 partition on my sd card and not the fat32 partition (you know, the one with my music and stuff) or do i need to back that up first?

you're good, everything should stay. Only necessary backup of the entire fat32 partition is if you are going to partition the sd card.