Archive for the ‘Google G2 Hero’ Category
G2: New Hero and immediate root
Bought a G2 Hero for my wife and first thinks first: Get root access. It is quit easy and here the summary:
1) Install the Android Developer Kit and get the driver installed for the ADB interface. If you have problems, here is a perfect article to solve the problems.
2) You need the Recovery-Image from Cyanogen and the 2 Superuser Files. Best to download out of the XDA Hero forum. I copied all files in the tool folder of the ADK.
3) Restart Hero into bootloader by switch on holding the back button.
4) Open command shell, navigate to tools folder of ADK and execute
fastboot devices
You should see you device there
5) Stay on command line and execute
fastboot boot cm-hero-recovery.img
to install the new recovery image
6) Install the root files on command line
adb shell mount /system
adb push su /system/bin/
adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/
adb shell reboot
7) After the reboot, download from Market “SuperUser Whitelist”
Check of you have su access on command line
adb shell
su
Done folks. But as you rooted your phone, you probably want to install the patched recovery image permanently on your hero:
a) Copy the cm-hero-recovery.img onto the sdcard
b) adb shell
c) flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-hero-recovery.img
Done.
