Rooted Android phone HTC Desire Z
2012-Jun-25, Monday 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chebeHTC Desire Z (aka Vision, G2) is now well and truly rooted. I'm indebted to xda-developers, here are some posts I found really helpful;
I then found a close-to-stock version of 2.3.5 and loaded that up. It works pretty well, only a couple of very minor bugs. One was apps like Twitter force-closing constantly. But apparently that has more to do with the HTC Market becoming Google Play, so I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it's all working fine now. But sadly, it still doesn't have the USB-drivers I want! Upon closer reading turns out it was optional in 2.3.4 (default in 4.0.x), and seeing as how HTC isn't doing anything new for this model, I'm going to have to look at other, messier, options.
- Using adb
- Gaining temporary root, changing the version number, and downgrading to 2.2
- Getting temp root (again), replacing the boot-loader, and changing some settings to keep root permanently
I then found a close-to-stock version of 2.3.5 and loaded that up. It works pretty well, only a couple of very minor bugs. One was apps like Twitter force-closing constantly. But apparently that has more to do with the HTC Market becoming Google Play, so I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it's all working fine now. But sadly, it still doesn't have the USB-drivers I want! Upon closer reading turns out it was optional in 2.3.4 (default in 4.0.x), and seeing as how HTC isn't doing anything new for this model, I'm going to have to look at other, messier, options.
