Root 4.5.91 With a Mac

[szotz926]

Yeah, I've been researching pretty steadily for the last hour and come to the same conclusion, which bums me out but is no different from any other phone, really.

When it comes to rooting, how simple do you think this method is? I have a MTS3G and it has been a pain in the butt to figure out root for it on my iMac... the Atrix is going to be my backup phone in case T-mo gets bought out by AT&Evil, or in case some horrifying accident steals the MTS from my grip. I've also tried to root my NookColor but chickened out at the last minute because I was afraid of hurting it... really I don't need custom ROMs and am satisfied mostly with stock OS, but I'd love to be able to remove bloatware and customize the look of the launcher, and unfortunately I'm not too confident with root.

Any advice?

 

[slushy]

What i posted here is pretty simple by my estimation. I think the confusion you had may have been because of the terminology surrounding unlocking on Android.

Rooting on Android gives you admin privileges on the phone, getting around the limitations imposed by the application security model. This helps with things like doing comprehensive system backups or installing application software that doesn't come through official channels (android market)

We talk about unlocking the bootloader when we break the security on the phone that prevents installing a customized operating system.

And the carrier unlock is what you thought it was

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[slushy]

I don't need custom ROMs and am satisfied mostly with stock OS, but I'd love to be able to remove bloatware and customize the look of the launcher, and unfortunately I'm not too confident with root.

Any advice?

For this you only need to root. After rooting get Titanium Backup in the market, it has stuff for removing the carrier bloat.

I use Launcher Pro on mine and I love it. It doesn't require root but there are done things that root helps it do.

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[szotz926]

Awesome, thank you.

 

[szotz926]

Alright, you're gonna hate me, but similar to other users on this forum I can't proceed with this because I can't get the OTA update to install... it gets about a quarter of the way and decides to run to a black screen with my little robot and a white triangle with an exclamation point in it. I then do a battery pull, and it reboots and tells me that the update failed.

Without that, what are my options? Or, in such a case, how do I bypass this and side load it?

 

[atrix_root]

Root went fine, enabled installing a fixed battery monitor, unlock mobile hotspot access and install TiBackup etc.

Here's downstream stuff that's not working. I tried to install the CMW recovery image both using their Rom Manager and manually with fastboot (returned a 30003 error). That's not critical just now but I have no idea if the original recovery rom is still in place and eventually I'd like to get the cmw one on.

Anyone know what's busted there?

When Cyanogen gets some sort of stable I definitely want it to improve battery life (turn off 3/4G when on Wifi) etc. However I've seen that CM7 installs a replacement launcher, I tried that launcher stand-alone and prefer the gingerbread 4.5.91 launcher.

So after installing CM7 is there a simple way to restore the stock launcher? I've made backup copies of BlurHome.(apk,odex) in anticipation of the need

 

[atrix_root]

Ok I think I know what's not working for me in installing recovery roms

Thanks for your post in this, I've got my phone rooted and happy with the results.

I'd like to flash a new recovery partition and need to unlock the device first. All of the osx fastboot binaries I've been able to find don't have the 'oem unlock' function i.e.

./moto-fastboot-osx64 oem unlock
... INFOOEM unlock is not implemented

Do you know of a build of this code that has the unlock?

tia!

 

[dbldeez]

Where should i put the unzipped files? i really need help with this everytime i try to use the terminal it says command not found.