Mesmerize rooted

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Has it all figured out, using rageagainstthecage and a pile of shell commands.

Then someone told me about this:
[APP]SuperOneClick v1.5.1 (Root, Unroot, Enable Non-Market App, Get UNLOCK code) - xda-developers

If you're using Windows, use the SuperOneClick. It does exactly what I did, and exactly right, has been tested on another Mesmerize. It's a full root. Don't re-invent the wheel.

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Ignore everything above this line lol.

bigbadbikernerd has verified (post #6) that the app Z4MOD from the market will root the Mez. It doesn't get any easier

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Sorry for double post, but this thread is going to also substitute as the Mesmerize Hacks section until someone decides that a real one is needed.

[ragnarokx]

Oh oh I want to be the first to say it - where are all the romz???

[namebrandon]

Originally Posted by ragnarokx

Oh oh I want to be the first to say it - where are all the romz???

[CloudStrife7]

I'll be subscribing to this thread for more motivation to root my phone.

[bigbadbikernerd]

Hey, I just rooted my Mesmerize with the Z4MOD application I downloaded on Appbrain. It worked pretty slick. It locked up the first time I tried to run it, so I rebooted the phone and tried again and it rooted it in less than one minute. It also has a built in "Unroot" button as well.

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Originally Posted by bigbadbikernerd

Hey, I just rooted my Mesmerize with the Z4MOD application I downloaded on Appbrain. It worked pretty slick. It locked up the first time I tried to run it, so I rebooted the phone and tried again and it rooted it in less than one minute. It also has a built in "Unroot" button as well.

That's great news! I'm going to edit the original post

[phidelt82]

OK, so I've rooted (even before I activated it, lol) now I've been searching everywhere on how to do a nandroid backup. We can't use Clockwork yet. I can't get Rom Manager to flash SPRecovery (or even show that any other recovery is available) and following the directions to flash SPRecovery manually keep failing. I don't to try to use any custom ROMs or even theme my stock ROM yet. I just want to back it up so I can have a bit of insurance as I play around.

Any advice out there?

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Originally Posted by phidelt82

OK, so I've rooted (even before I activated it, lol) now I've been searching everywhere on how to do a nandroid backup. We can't use Clockwork yet. I can't get Rom Manager to flash SPRecovery (or even show that any other recovery is available) and following the directions to flash SPRecovery manually keep failing. I don't to try to use any custom ROMs or even theme my stock ROM yet. I just want to back it up so I can have a bit of insurance as I play around.

Any advice out there?

There isn't a custom recovery written for the mez just yet, and I don;t recommend you keep trying ones for other phones -- better safe than sorry.

Titanium backup from the market will backup all you apps, app data, and system settings to the SD card, and the pro version will back it all up to dropbox. Best solution I can think of for now.

[phidelt82]

Originally Posted by gbhil

There isn't a custom recovery written for the mez just yet, and I don;t recommend you keep trying ones for other phones -- better safe than sorry.

Titanium backup from the market will backup all you apps, app data, and system settings to the SD card, and the pro version will back it all up to dropbox. Best solution I can think of for now.

I'm not trying to use custom recoveries written for other phones. At least I don't think I am. If it says anything about a specific phone, like clockworkmod, I'm not using it. SPRecovery hadn't said anything about being phone specific anywhere. Since I wasn't trying to flash a new ROM, just trying to take a backup of mine, I thought it would be an ok choice. I guess I just need to wait it out or brush up on my coding.

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OK, now that I look deeper into things I think I see where I was mistaken. Looking deeper into the recovery and some of the ROMs, I'm (kinda) seeing how these things are all put together now. Even the sister ROMs (like Fascinate and Mesmerize) aren't put together even close to the same and recovery files aren't in the same directories. So luckily most of the times trying to flashing a new recovery tool like SPRecovery would just fail. If it did work, you would probably be screwed anyway because things would be in the wrong place.

Anyway, I'm learning.