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the dreaded process of rooting Rogers Dream

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This is not as smooth as [rooting the G1]{rooting-g1}, and comes no where close as [my second attempt at rooting the G1]{simple-rooting-g1} (ie the easy way).

WARNING: I’ve said it before, but this time I want to stress it… this may brick your phone! Until I figured things out and found the right pages I had a non-booting phone.

Some background info #

Also… I assume you have the fastboot executable. Having adb is handy, but not required. Google for instructions if you don’t.

Installing CM recovery #

In case you don’t know Android phones have a bunch of boot modes (5, I think). Anyway, one of them lets you upgrade software using update.zip files. This mode comes up when you boot with the HOME button held. We will overwrite the recovery partition with one that will do more for you, and you will need it to upgrade to community firmware in the future.

Preping for root #

Next you need to download Haykuro’s rooting files. These were hard to find, because the service he uploaded them to has a 10k download limit… and I came in too late.

I initially started with this write up: Rogers, heres your real root, but it didn’t work for me. I ended up with a phone that booted to the ROGERS screen and never went further. Sounds like the kernel wasn’t getting to init. Maybe a timing issue or the kernel was just wrong. Anyway…

I had previously found this write up: All the technical details you’d like - Rooting the Rogers Dream, but like I said, the link provided there – http://drop.io/ii4t2ax – had already expired it’s download quota.

I will give you the new link I found for this file: http://drop.io/081mnjs, linked off this forum post. In case it’s gone again, you can always google for “rogers_root_unzipme.zip” and maybe you’ll get another mirror.

The steps #

Here are the steps I took while the phone was in recovery mode:

Yey!

Resources #

As always, here are the links that I found useful in my adventures…

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