[Video Tutorial] How To Properly Root Your Inspire 4G

Shad0w26 · 06:05 PM

The HTC Inspire 4G is the first Android phone I've ever owned, and this is my first phone I've ever rooted and have installed a custom ROM on it.

I followed this video: [Only registered users can view links. ] to root my phone with absolutely no problem.

When rooting, make sure you type MMC0 when using the adb shell /sys/.... command on the CMD window! Don't do the same mistake I did by using MMC2!

You can also follow this video: [Only registered users can view links. ] to install a custom ROM on your phone!

Happy Rooting!

PS - I would also like to add that after rooting and installing a custom ROM, I'm getting the follow upload and download speeds:

p4174w · 02-21-2011, 09:36 PM

What were your speeds before?

Shad0w26 · 02-21-2011, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by p4174w

What were your speeds before?

Around 900kbs up and 400kbs down

p4174w · 02-21-2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Shad0w26

Around 900kbs up and 400kbs down

I get about 2.2mb down and .35 up stock. Can't wait till I root it so see how fast it will go

ooolalacey · 02-21-2011, 11:34 PM

oh it was so much easier to jailbreak iphone. sigh.

mrro82 · 02-22-2011, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ooolalacey

oh it was so much easier to jailbreak iphone. sigh.

Someone on the xda site is developing a noob-friendly way of rooting this sucker. He's speeding right along with it too.

ooolalacey · 02-22-2011, 10:14 AM

awesome because I am so lost. can it be done on OSX?

mrro82 · 02-22-2011, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ooolalacey

awesome because I am so lost. can it be done on OSX?

That I don't know. I would head over to [Only registered users can view links. ] and dig through the development secion for the Inspire. The answer will be there. I'm on Windows so I don't want to say one way of the other and be wrong.

From what I've seen so far, rooting is a lot to absorb and I won't lie, I was really nervous doing it to my new phone but the upside is that you can remove all the crappy bloatware off of it and install custom ROM's. The community over there (and here for that matter) is really helpful so if you get stuck or have an issue they can sort it out rather quickly. I know this from experience.