Rooting Android cell help

Hi Randy, This question might be better posed to an Android tech support
forum, rather than an Ubuntu one... Maybe try here:
http://androidforums.com/android-phones/

Cheers,
Randall

P.S. Once the Ubuntu Phone comes out, that will be a whole new story ;)

Thanks for that Randall, but the source of my difficulty is within Ubuntu itself as I am unable to make my way through the Ubuntu errors I keep getting in terminal. That's why I thought to post here. So for me it's an ubuntu question in how do I get past the file not found errors. I can clearly see the files in Nautilus. So perhaps it's simply syntax errors in Terminal.

I have found lots of online support in that other OS which I am reluctant to use.

I'll certainly have a look at the link you provided.

So yes, I follow the android link you provided, and EVERYTHING there leads to using that other OS and .exe files.
SAD.

Would they run in WINE on Ubuntu? That might be a good trick ;)

Cheers,
Randall.

Hi Randy,

The process looks fairly straightforward to me, but I don't have a Rogers Sony Ericsson phone so I can't try the process, but I can try to help. First thing, what command gives you the errors and what (exactly, character by character) are the errors.

Kim

Hey Randy, have you looked at this <http://esausilva.com/2010/05/13/setting-up-adbusb-drivers-for-android-devices-in-linux-ubuntu/> tutorial on how to get the USB link setup so that adb works?

Kim

Hey Kim,
It appears the adb is perhaps the problem. So I'll check out that link.
Thanks

Well this just seems to be beyond my level of experience. So I'm giving up.
As much as I don't want to, I think I may have to just do a factory restore on the phone and reload everything and hopefully not run into the same situation.
It's frustrating because I can't even get past the necessary Ubuntu config necessary to even begin the process of starting to root the phone. I can follow along so far and then...deep end of the pool!

Thanks for trying to help

randy@randy-VPCF119GS:~$ cd zergRush_automated_Linux_root/
randy@randy-VPCF119GS:~/zergRush_automated_Linux_root$ ./runme-linux
--Starting---
---Killing the adb server to make sure that there are no problems---
./runme-linux: line 12: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Waiting for Device---
./runme-linux: line 15: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Cleaning out any previous zergRush attempts---
./runme-linux: line 18: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Creating temp folder for zergRush---
./runme-linux: line 21: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Pushing zergRush---
./runme-linux: line 24: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Fixing permissions for zergRush---
./runme-linux: line 27: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Running zergRush---
./runme-linux: line 30: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Device found!---
./runme-linux: line 37: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Pushing busybox---
./runme-linux: line 40: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Fixing busybox permissions---
./runme-linux: line 43: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---remounting system---
./runme-linux: line 46: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---copying busybox to /system/xbin---
./runme-linux: line 49: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---fixing ownership and permissions---
./runme-linux: line 52: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
./runme-linux: line 53: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---installing busybox---
./runme-linux: line 56: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---cleaning up---
./runme-linux: line 59: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---pushing SU binary---
./runme-linux: line 62: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---correcting ownership and permissions for SU---
./runme-linux: line 65: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
./runme-linux: line 66: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---correcting symlinks---
./runme-linux: line 69: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
./runme-linux: line 70: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---Pushing Superuser app---
./runme-linux: line 73: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
--cleaning---
./runme-linux: line 76: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---rebooting---
./runme-linux: line 79: ./files/adb: No such file or directory
---All done, your Xperia Play has been rooted by DooMLoRD---
---This script has been ported by paxchristos!!---
---If have any questions, feel free to email me @ <email address hidden>---

Yes, adb is definitely the root of your problem. Here is what I have after unzipping the files:

kim@kim-Lenovo-G555:~/test$ cd zergRush_automated_Linux_root/
kim@kim-Lenovo-G555:~/test/zergRush_automated_Linux_root$ ls -l files
total 2004
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kim kim 159620 Oct 26 2011 adb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kim kim 1075144 Aug 14 2011 busybox
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kim kim 22228 Feb 29 2008 su
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kim kim 762010 Feb 29 2008 Superuser.apk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kim kim 23052 Oct 21 2011 zergRush

For some reason the runme-linux script can't find the adb program file on your system.

yes, I just got the same thing. adb shows up in green