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I got the phone offa craigslist.
how can I tell if the phone is already rooted?
Menu > settings > about phone > software > build number if out says release keys at the end it's one of the leaks, if it says test keys you have root. Hope that helps
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it says release-keys, but build number 1.17.605.1
the reason I asked is because I am having problems rooting it per the instructions on this website.
this phone recently got sent back to htc for service, and they flashed it to the "latest" rom they said. dunno what that means.
What exactly are you having problems with while rooting?
it says release-keys, but build number 1.17.605.1
the reason I asked is because I am having problems rooting it per the instructions on this website.
this phone recently got sent back to htc for service, and they flashed it to the "latest" rom they said. dunno what that means.
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Im not sure htc services phones do they?
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korben dallas said:
Im not sure htc services phones do they?
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yes they do ,if u call and have issues with ur phone , they do offer to fix ur phone but not sure for any cost tho , hope this helps
I had audible crackling, and they fixed the speaker, but also reflashed the phone to 1.5, unrooted.
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yes they do ,if u call and have issues with ur phone , they do offer to fix ur phone but not sure for any cost tho , hope this helps
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shagpal said:
I had audible crackling, and they fixed the speaker, but also reflashed the phone to 1.5, unrooted.
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view my thread to help you root your phone. the link is the first one in my signature. read threw the thread and make sure you download the full version and the update.
Good to know! Thanks!
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view my thread to help you root your phone. the link is the first one in my signature. read threw the thread and make sure you download the full version and the update.
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noob question........my phone says firmware 1.5 build number 1.17.605.1 cl104882 release-key and its flashed to metropcs......if i root my phone and change to 2.1 will i have to reflash to metro........thanks
kingkat186 said:
noob question........my phone says firmware 1.5 build number 1.17.605.1 cl104882 release-key and its flashed to metropcs......if i root my phone and change to 2.1 will i have to reflash to metro........thanks
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good news is, that you are stock, so you can root your phone.
and yes, chances are you will then have to reflash it to metropcs. but since you already did that once, the next time will be easier. if you do run into trouble, then just ask us in the IRC channel at irc.wastate.net #droideris or #erisroothelp
thanks for your help
jearl75 said:
Menu > settings > about phone > software > build number if out says release keys at the end it's one of the leaks, if it says test keys you have root. Hope that helps.
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I think I have rooted my phone, but what is "leaks" also my phone has "realease" keys at he end of the build. Superuser app is on my phone and Titanium Backup seems to be working. Just entered, "su" into Terminal and got permission denied. I'm lost.
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VISION PVT SHIP S-OFF
H-BOOT-0.82.0000
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 2 2010, 17:59:38
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
MobileWon said:
I think I have rooted my phone, but what is "leaks" also my phone has "realease" keys at he end of the build. Superuser app is on my phone and Titanium Backup seems to be working. Just entered, "su" into Terminal and got permission denied. I'm lost.
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Check out this link. I think it might help answer your questions.
Also google theunlockr.com
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Check out this link. I think it might help answer your questions.
Also google theunlockr.com
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The link is not working.
Edit:Nevermind, I managed to find the information on Android Central. So, I'm rooted, but whenever I would do the g free verify I would get an error. Thanks given.
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I think that he meant this one. Basically, install a terminal app , if one is not already installed, and open it. If you see a "#" prompt, you are rooted. If you see a "$" prompt and then enter the command "su" (and grant permission to the terminal app if you get prompted to by the SuperUser app), if it changes to a "#" you are rooted.
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I think that he meant this one. Basically, install a terminal app , if one is not already installed, and open it. If you see a "#" prompt, you are rooted. If you see a "$" prompt and then enter the command "su" (and grant permission to the terminal app if you get prompted to by the SuperUser app), if it changes to a "#" you are rooted.
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That's the link, thanks doogald. Sorry for the broken one
Thanks guys thats the exact one I used. Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I do the g free verify, but I also wanted to see if I had the cid and sim unlocked.
MobileWon said:
I think I have rooted my phone, but what is "leaks" also my phone has "realease" keys at he end of the build. Superuser app is on my phone and Titanium Backup seems to be working. Just entered, "su" into Terminal and got permission denied. I'm lost.
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For the Eris, there are at least 5 different ways to "root" your phone, and the most recent & easiest methods (One Click or Dummies) don't even touch the primary OS - they just install a custom recovery boot which allow you to replace the entire OS by flashing a "rooted" OS into place (or, add a root toolkit to the existing "stock" ROM). So, running "su" may not tell you much.
For most rooted ROMs, the "su" terminal/shell program and the Superuser app act as a pair - when any other app requests superuser privileges the first time, the Superuser app will pop up on the screen and ask you whether you want to allow or deny the app requesting root privileges. There will be a check-box on that screen that will allow the Superuser app to remember your choice. If you have ever seen this pop-up, then I suppose you have a rootkit installed correctly.
Note that if you look away from your phone for too long while that pop-up is on screen, the Superuser app will time out - and decide that the requesting app should always be denied.
The Superuser app keeps a list of apps that have previously requested root - start the Superuser app directly from the launcher, and you will see the list. If there is one in there that is erroneously marked as "deny", tap on that entry and select "forget". Then, the next time you start the app in question, keep a lookout for that Superuser app pop-up.
The fact that you get a "permission denied" message when trying "su" from a terminal session means one of two things, either:
- you previously denied access to "su" (or looked away from the screen, and missed the pop-up), or
- your ROM is not correctly rooted.
HTH
PS note that this thread is extremely old - it references methods and techniques which will still work, but are quite a bit more tedious than newer methods. Also, it helps people responding to your inquiry if you mention a few tidbits about your phone : what you have done to the phone,the bootloader version, the (full) kernel version, the "Software #", etc.
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Thanks guys thats the exact one I used. Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I do the g free verify, but I also wanted to see if I had the cid and sim unlocked.
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Doesn't SIM Lock only apply to GSM phones?
ok. ive used the one click root... ive used the script root method... downloaded the correct files. but i can't seem to get root.... both methods says i have root and its good to go but no superuser icon and i even tried using the one on the market just incase i need to... nothing still and ive tried over hours and hours... i don't know what else to do... anyone?
Use the fixed superuser posted on these forums.
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i can't even get root permission to log into cwk. to flash it.
dadsterflip said:
i can't even get root permission to log into cwk. to flash it.
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i didn't do the one click root, but, in the long root version, and I am sure it is the same, you need to install SU from the market, and then if you do not get SU access right away, reboot the phone a couple times.
If you turn your phone off, and then back on while holding vol down and power, does it say MECH S-OFF at the top? If it still says S-ON or security warning, you didn't root your phone right, if it says S-OFF your rooted, and you just need to get SU working by rebooting a few times.
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i didn't do the one click root, but, in the long root version, and I am sure it is the same, you need to install SU from the market, and then if you do not get SU access right away, reboot the phone a couple times.
If you turn your phone off, and then back on while holding vol down and power, does it say MECH S-OFF at the top? If it still says S-ON or security warning, you didn't root your phone right, if it says S-OFF your rooted, and you just need to get SU working by rebooting a few times.
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Hope that works for them. I wonder if fastboot, where it doesnt shut the phone down 100% and suspends the phone in memory, could be an issue or no?
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i didn't do the one click root, but, in the long root version, and I am sure it is the same, you need to install SU from the market, and then if you do not get SU access right away, reboot the phone a couple times.
If you turn your phone off, and then back on while holding vol down and power, does it say MECH S-OFF at the top? If it still says S-ON or security warning, you didn't root your phone right, if it says S-OFF your rooted, and you just need to get SU working by rebooting a few times.
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ill redo it and do this. thx
the only problems root wise i ran into (and i did it the adb way) was super user wouldnt initially give rights. I solved this each and everytime by one reboot. (clockwork i didnt have rights) restarted phone superuser came up with the box for me to give cw rights. Then i installed Tit backup form the market. No rights again, a restart and problem solved. Dont know why it was buggy but try that.
is it normal to see. usb device not recognized? while its on the hboot loading the update through? it only says that while its updating the hboot or loading the PG05IMG.zip. otherwise i have all the right drivers for it.
update.... still not luck. i used the script root... at the end i have s-on.... on the first downgrade i have s-off but at the very end of the script to add the other update ppg05img, it turns the s-on back... sooooo whats wrong with it or what am i doing wrong?
if your having that many issues with the quick root method (ill be honest I havent looked at the instructions for it) i really would suggest doing it manually (the method that was first released). I wanted to post the links for you but i dont have enough posts yet to do so. The instructions i used are on droid-life . com. Once your there go to search and type in thunderbolt root. Another one click root method will be the first topic. Go there and youll see two hyperlinks (here) and (here) in the first paragraph.Click the second one and youll see the list of instructions and a link to a video, showing you how to do it. The original video is very fast but once it starts playing it will give you step one and step two links. This video is very helpful and very detailed. Anyway hope that helps.
Any questions leave a post.
update. finally got root... manual way. thx for the help guys.
dadsterflip said:
update. finally got root... manual way. thx for the help guys.
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no problem man hope i was a help.
dadsterflip said:
update. finally got root... manual way. thx for the help guys.
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now you can rest easy that in the future if you screw up your tbolt you understand how adb works enough to probably fix it comfortably.
Amen to that.
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alright, how bad did I screw up here? Got the OTA notification last night, read nothing but good things and most keeping root through the process. I missed an important detail of using the OTA rootkeeper. So I'm currently on the latest update and lost root. I've tried one click 1.1 to no avail so far. I am unlocked and was rooted prior, but never got around to installing a recovery (hadn't found a ROM I was quite happy with enough to lose all my data just yet)
So.. all that said, is there a root option for the latest OTA yet?
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alright, how bad did I screw up here? Got the OTA notification last night, read nothing but good things and most keeping root through the process. I missed an important detail of using the OTA rootkeeper. So I'm currently on the latest update and lost root. I've tried one click 1.1 to no avail so far. I am unlocked and was rooted prior, but never got around to installing a recovery (hadn't found a ROM I was quite happy with enough to lose all my data just yet)
So.. all that said, is there a root option for the latest OTA yet?
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Yes, all you need to do is flash Amon Ra through fastboot and reboot to recovery .. under the developer menu option on Amon Ra you have the option to install SU and superuser . Just run that and reboot you would have to unlock of course to install Amon Ra
Looks like I'm installing AmonRa today. Thanks!!!! I'm from a moto world where CWM and SPR are all we had.. the feature to install SU binary from recovery is new to me haha
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Looks like I'm installing AmonRa today. Thanks!!!! I'm from a moto world where CWM and SPR are all we had.. the feature to install SU binary from recovery is new to me haha
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Yes, I came from the OG droid so its quite a world of difference in the process to install stuff due to being S-on.
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das0527 said:
Idiot check - can someone verify the command for flashing the Amon Ra recovery through fastboot? I've already got the command prompt open and cd to the proper directory.
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Fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
for amon ra it was like amon-ra-3.13.gnm.img or something its the name of the file you downloaded just don't forget to add the .img at the end.
no luck. Got amon ra and ran the command to install su and superuser.. still no root access afterwards =/
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no luck. Got amon ra and ran the command to install su and superuser.. still no root access afterwards =/
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Odd, do you have the superuser app in your app drawer ? Otherwise , I heard to download it from the market and it will work .
I did it this way and I read about it from others that did it this was as well.
I need some help, please - I may have made a very bad assumption here...
I just got my Rezound today (upgrading from a Thunderbolt). I saw the stickied thread about how (relatively) easy it was to perm-root the phone after the bootloader was unlocked, and I assumed that this all still applied after getting the OTA update (not realizing that the OTA update was JUST released - my assumption was that it was older and already dealt with).
So I got the OTA first thing after activating the phone, THEN unlocked the bootloader, THEN tried to root via One Click - I tried both OneClickRoot_1.1 and Super OneClick 2.3.3.0, but it doesn't seem to be working.
I'm getting "Permission denied" errors on mounts and "read-only file system" errors for CHMods and file copies during the Zerg Rush process. It says "Congrats you are now perm rooted", but it doesn't seem to be true - I was able to install SuperUser from the market, but the BusyBox installer says it can't find the su binaries, so I'm not convinced SuperUser is actually working.
Considering that I never had root access to the phone prior to installing the OTA, is there anything I do besides waiting for one or more of the root tools to be updated to deal with the new OTA?
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Odd, do you have the superuser app in your app drawer ? Otherwise , I heard to download it from the market and it will work .
I did it this way and I read about it from others that did it this was as well.
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yeah, I have superuser installed. Nothing is getting SU access and as the above guy posted, all of the zergrush methods are completely failing. there is a rooted stock OTA ROM.. seriously debating that route now... =/
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yeah, I have superuser installed. Nothing is getting SU access and as the above guy posted, all of the zergrush methods are completely failing. there is a rooted stock OTA ROM.. seriously debating that route now... =/
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I would try the rooted stock rom, but just not sure why it didn't work for you . I did all the steps you did and I was rerooted afterwards. Are you getting the pop up for superuser when an app asks for permission ? Sorry, was trying to be helpful
got it.. had to attempt the SU install twice.. also reboot DIRECTLY from recovery, do NOT reboot back to bootloader. I think that's what killed it for me. And yes in the end I did have to install the superuser app from the market to get it working again.
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got it.. had to attempt the SU install twice.. also reboot DIRECTLY from recovery, do NOT reboot back to bootloader. I think that's what killed it for me. And yes in the end I did have to install the superuser app from the market to get it working again.
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Great ! I couldn't remember how I rebooted ! Sorry for making you do it so many times .
haha.. if you knew how many times I attempted one click two attempts at the SU from amon ra is nothing lmao. Thanks for the tip! Just glad to have root back LOL
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I would try the rooted stock rom, but just not sure why it didn't work for you . I did all the steps you did and I was rerooted afterwards. Are you getting the pop up for superuser when an app asks for permission ? Sorry, was trying to be helpful
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I'm having a serious issue here - for unknown reasons (I have NOT installed any ROMS or ANY non-OTA updates whatsoever), my Rezound is no longer able to connect to Verizon's network, for data or voice (it just says "no service"; WiFi works fine). As I said in my previous post on the previous page, I just got the phone today, and was trying to use OneClick to root my phone, but it isn't working because of the OTA update, and at some point I think the radio got screwed up.
So my intended remedy was to download the rooted stock rom and install that, but, naturally, it doesn't pass signature verification on the stock recovery. So I tried to follow another set of instructions to get AmonRa recovery installed, but the bootloader keeps rejecting the PH98IMG.zip file, telling me (depending on which one I try to use) that there's "no image or wrong image" or "Main Version is older! Update Fail!". Furthermore, I tried to extract the PH98IMG.zip file from the rooted stock rom file that I downloaded from the link on this site, but that zip file is corrupted (it won't open on my PC, even after I re-downloaded the rom).
Can someone help me figure out how to get AmonRa installed? From there, I can hopefully get the rooted stock rom installed. OR, at the very least, help me run a radio update so the phone will at least work until an easier root method becomes available?
Thanks.
beleynn said:
Can someone help me figure out how to get AmonRa installed? From there, I can hopefully get the rooted stock rom installed. OR, at the very least, help me run a radio update so the phone will at least work until an easier root method becomes available?
Thanks.
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Did you try flashing in fastboot? Download Amon Ra v3.13 and then use this command in fastboot:
Fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
Make sure fastboot is off, usb debugging is on
Link to most current Amon recovery....
http://205.196.123.46/507ebb4s3cqg/c...r-3.13-gnm.img
Use this tool below to flash, easiest to use....... instructions in thread...
http://www.scottsroms.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=57
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Make sure fastboot is off, usb debugging is on
Link to most current Amon recovery....
Use this tool below to flash, easiest to use....... instructions in thread...
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Perfect. Thank you.
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I got the rooted ota rom installed easily, and better yet, the root worked perfectly. The problem is, I still can't connect to any wireless networks (aside from wifi).
I used the tool linked in the previous response to flash a boot.img I got out of this thread (specifically, the stock 2.01.605.11 w/ 1/26 OTA), but still nothing.
Any thoughts?
Is your battery cover on?
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RED ZMAN said:
Is your battery cover on?
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It is now. I discovered that wonderful "feature" about 30 seconds before your reply showed up. Works perfectly, of course, though I'd been going nuts for *checks* 6 hours.
How I regained root:
Okay, with Scott's CleanFLASH, I flashed
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, then used the Development section or whatever in the Recovery to install superuser. I then rebooted twice, used CleanFLASH again to flash the
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back. After reboot, I installed superuser from market, then updated the binary.
Titanium Backup now works and I can confirm regaining root after the OTA update. To protect myself from this in the future, I have installed OTA RootKeeper. OTA RootKeeper has been confirmed to backup superuser and is a simple way of restoring superuser after an OTA.
I did not have to backup anything on the internal sdcard, as I did not lose any data through this process, but it never hurts to do it, just in case. I am running the stock Rom, and unlocked through HTC-dev.
Thanks to con247 and andybones for pointing me in the right direction.
I am not responsible for any issues with your phone, so proceed at your own risk.
greetings. i apologize in advance if my thread is not in the correct place.
damn my curiosity. i clicked the "temp unroot" in superuser and it unrooted my phone. bootloader is still unlocked, as well as recovery, but i don't have root access for apps. i can't uninstall and reinstall SU without root... am i screwed?
i'm hesitant to do another one click root process. mainly because it said it would delete all the data on the phone while unlocking the bootloader. but my bootloader is still unlocked...
also, will installing my latest nandroid backup restore root access?
thanks!
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greetings. i apologize in advance if my thread is not in the correct place.
damn my curiosity. i clicked the "temp unroot" in superuser and it unrooted my phone. bootloader is still unlocked, as well as recovery, but i don't have root access for apps. i can't uninstall and reinstall SU without root... am i screwed?
i'm hesitant to do another one click root process. mainly because it said it would delete all the data on the phone while unlocking the bootloader. but my bootloader is still unlocked...
also, will installing my latest nandroid backup restore root access?
thanks!
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What makes u think u lost root?? You can install su from the market.. I think all you need to do is installed su, or supersu from the play store and you should be good to go.. I just looked at this setting is supersu and it says clean up to unroot.. Try reinstalling su... Or restoring a backup could do it too..
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What makes u think u lost root?? You can install su from the market.. I think all you need to do is installed su, or supersu from the play store and you should be good to go.. I just looked at this setting is supersu and it says clean up to unroot.. Try reinstalling su... Or restoring a backup could do it too..
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i know i lost root because i don't have root access in any of my apps. like titanium, root explorer, busybox...
i guess i'll try my nandroid backup. i've just made a lot of changes since then and without the option of titanuim, i'll lose it.oh well
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i know i lost root because i don't have root access in any of my apps. like titanium, root explorer, busybox...
i guess i'll try my nandroid backup. i've just made a lot of changes since then and without the option of titanuim, i'll lose it.oh well
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Been there a few dozen times... I feel your pain...
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your device is rooted your rom is not. the words tossed around too much. if you have a aftermarket recovery youre good.
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your device is rooted your rom is not. the words tossed around too much. if you have a aftermarket recovery youre good.
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Only the software can be "rooted" the term refers to superuser or admin access, root access to special privledges not available to regular users. The device software itself is exploited to allow a Rom root access. The device can be exploited for soff (security off) or the bootloader is unlocked allowing for access to write to the partitions in nand memory. In the case of HTC bootloaders they only allow partial write access to partitions, unofficial/unsigned recoveries do not have access to boot or misc partitions (kernel/firmware)
In response to op in superuser temp unroot is just an option to temporarily hide root, you should be able to just open the app and re-enable. Should that fail try supersu instead, there is a flashable zip on the dev's website that is flashed from recovery and should restore root access using supersu in place of superuser
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Only the software can be "rooted" the term refers to superuser or admin access, root access to special privledges not available to regular users. The device software itself is exploited to allow a Rom root access. The device can be exploited for soff (security off) or the bootloader is unlocked allowing for access to write to the partitions in nand memory. In the case of HTC bootloaders they only allow partial write access to partitions, unofficial/unsigned recoveries do not have access to boot or misc partitions (kernel/firmware)
In response to op in superuser temp unroot is just an option to temporarily hide root, you should be able to just open the app and re-enable. Should that fail try supersu instead, there is a flashable zip on the dev's website that is flashed from recovery and should restore root access using supersu in place of superuser
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Again words tossed around a lot. He hasn't lost anything he just removed root. He's fine if his recovery is intact. My assumption is that he feared he was back to stock then again I could be wrong besides root is a folder directory. Thanks for filling the op in.
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Again its just an option to temporarily hide root, its not lost. You open the app go to settings and check temp unroot and to get it back, all that is needed is to uncheck temp unroot and restart phone. If it doesn't work which it should then reflash superuser or supersu in recovery to reenable admin access
Hello! I am new here. I have the same problem. I tried temp unroot just out of curiosity and now I think it is really permanently unrooted, because the temp-unroot checkox is no longer checked. I used the root checker and it says "Sorry! The device is not properly rooted". What does that mean? And only Titanium Backup asks for superuser permission. Whenever I use the Link2sd or Root Explorer, they don't ask for superuser permission and I get the error that my phone is not rooted.
Rini94 said:
Hello! I am new here. I have the same problem. I tried temp unroot just out of curiosity and now I think it is really permanently unrooted, because the temp-unroot checkox is no longer checked. I used the root checker and it says "Sorry! The device is not properly rooted". What does that mean? And only Titanium Backup asks for superuser permission. Whenever I use the Link2sd or Root Explorer, they don't ask for superuser permission and I get the error that my phone is not rooted.
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Latest version of twrp should be able to fix it, boot in to recovery then go immediately to reboot system and it should ask you if you want to fix root access...
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Rini94 said:
Hello! I am new here. I have the same problem. I tried temp unroot just out of curiosity and now I think it is really permanently unrooted, because the temp-unroot checkox is no longer checked. I used the root checker and it says "Sorry! The device is not properly rooted". What does that mean? And only Titanium Backup asks for superuser permission. Whenever I use the Link2sd or Root Explorer, they don't ask for superuser permission and I get the error that my phone is not rooted.
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If you haven't already tried it, you can try uninstalling the SuperSU app & reinstalling it. Just a thought......
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Latest version of twrp should be able to fix it, boot in to recovery then go immediately to reboot system and it should ask you if you want to fix root access...
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Is twrp another ROM? I am running stock ROM. I don't see any option as fix root access in the recovery mode. Will it appear only if I install twrp?
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FinZ28 said:
If you haven't already tried it, you can try uninstalling the SuperSU app & reinstalling it. Just a thought......
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I tried uninstalling the updates of SU and then installing them again. But it's still not working...
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Is twrp another ROM? I am running stock ROM. I don't see any option as fix root access in the recovery mode. Will it appear only if I install twrp?
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I tried uninstalling the updates of SU and then installing them again. But it's still not working...
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Twrp (team win recovery project) should be your recovery.
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Awesome! twrp worked! Somehow it just said the phone was not properly rooted and just updated the superSU and now its all good.
But I have both superuser and superSU. Is that a problem? I can't uninstall superuser. Just uninstall its updates...
Rini94 said:
Awesome! twrp worked! Somehow it just said the phone was not properly rooted and just updated the superSU and now its all good.
But I have both superuser and superSU. Is that a problem? I can't uninstall superuser. Just uninstall its updates...
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Use Titanium, it's a system app on your rom, with titanium you can uninstall it or freeze it... I told you a couple posts before that twrp should do the trick, glad you got it fixed!
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So I used the rooting guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996389 and found a different superuser/busybox package to use. (don't remember the link right now).
However, whenever I open SuperSU to try to update it, it says installation failed or just reboots. And if I try to use root things for AdFree, it can't find the partition or just restarts.
Is anyone else having this problem or is there a different SU package I should use? My bootloader IS unlocked.
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So I used the rooting guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996389 and found a different superuser/busybox package to use. (don't remember the link right now).
However, whenever I open SuperSU to try to update it, it says installation failed or just reboots. And if I try to use root things for AdFree, it can't find the partition or just restarts.
Is anyone else having this problem or is there a different SU package I should use? My bootloader IS unlocked.
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Ive been using ViperDNA which comes with what seems like a custom SuperUser type of all in it.
But when I origionally rooted my phone, i seem to remember having an issue with SuperSU, and the first time i rooted i said screw it and just installed Superuser without any problems. The second time i rooted, i Installed SuperSU, then had to download Superuser form the Android Market, to update the binary, which updated it for SuperSU, and that solved my problem.
When you try to open an app that needs to use root access, do you get the notification asking for permission?
perhaps the "other" superSU/busybox package that you used didn't properly do what it needed to do?
I see the link on that tutorial is broken, fortunately i have the file that i originally downloaded form that very same tutorial saved to my hard drive, and now uploaded to DropBox if you would like to download it and try flashing this zip while in recovery to see if it gives you a proper root.
I would recommend downloading the above file, and flashing that to see if it helps. I'll try to remember to check back here to see if you posted anything in reply, but let me know if it doesn't work. Ill try to help as much as I can
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I would recommend downloading the above file, and flashing that to see if it helps. I'll try to remember to check back here to see if you posted anything in reply, but let me know if it doesn't work. Ill try to help as much as I can
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I installed your package, and get the same errors before in SuperSU. It wants to upgrade but then force restarts whilst trying.
I then tried the Superuser app by Chainsdd, and I make a little progress?
First, when I try to upgrade, it asks for root from SuperSU and Superuser. Since SuperSU came with the busybox package, I can't uninstall it.
When I first go to the updater, it shows me this: (See attachment 1, I can't do links :S)
After I upgrade it, I am left with this screen: (see attachment 2)
It looks like it reverts back to su v .98 from 1.02?
Either way, as soon as I hit lets do it again, the phone restarts. Did I screw up the unlock/root somehow? In the top left of my fastboot screen it shows ***TAMPERED*** and ***UNLOCKED***
I am using CWM 6.0.2.1
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When you try to open an app that needs to use root access, do you get the notification asking for permission?
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If I do it right when I reboot my phone it usually asks correctly
Thanks again for the help so far!
xDexter said:
I installed your package, and get the same errors before in SuperSU. It wants to upgrade but then force restarts whilst trying.
I then tried the Superuser app by Chainsdd, and I make a little progress?
First, when I try to upgrade, it asks for root from SuperSU and Superuser. Since SuperSU came with the busybox package, I can't uninstall it.
When I first go to the updater, it shows me this: (See attachment 1, I can't do links :S)
After I upgrade it, I am left with this screen: (see attachment 2)
It looks like it reverts back to su v .98 from 1.02?
Either way, as soon as I hit lets do it again, the phone restarts. Did I screw up the unlock/root somehow? In the top left of my fastboot screen it shows ***TAMPERED*** and ***UNLOCKED***
I am using CWM 6.0.2.1
If I do it right when I reboot my phone it usually asks correctly
Thanks again for the help so far!
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It's difficult for me to troubleshoot when i haven't had to fix this problem since december haha.
The tampered, and unlocked is standard that is what it shows for everyone who unlocked the boot-loader.
So let me get this straight,
Do me a favor, un-install Superuser, download RootChecker from the market by JoeyKrim, And run it, what does it say?
->When you run it, did it ask for permission from SuperSU?
With just the SuperSU installed, if you run a program that requires root permission (For example, RootChecker), Nothing shows up asking if you want to Allow/Deny?
->When you open SuperSU to update the binary, it fails to update and restarts the APP?
With the SuperSU/BusyBox package flashed, when you install Superuser from the android market and try to update the binary, it *appears* to revert back to an older version of the binary?
-> After updating the binary through Superuser (despite the appparent reversion), if you un-install Superuser, and try to run RootChecker, does it work?
Sorry, i know it is a lot and i'm not much help, i'm troubleshooting blindly and from a distance haha.
xDexter said:
So I used the rooting guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996389 and found a different superuser/busybox package to use. (don't remember the link right now).
However, whenever I open SuperSU to try to update it, it says installation failed or just reboots. And if I try to use root things for AdFree, it can't find the partition or just restarts.
Is anyone else having this problem or is there a different SU package I should use? My bootloader IS unlocked.
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you need to install a kernel with /system writing enabled. Such as lk's or cubed
htc has a line wrong in their code and it makes it so that /system cant be edited while booted into android, only while in recovery. Installing a kernel that fixed this bug will let you use supersu from the play store and other apps such as adfree which need to edit system files to function
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you need to install a kernel with /system writing enabled. Such as lk's or cubed
htc has a line wrong in their code and it makes it so that /system cant be edited while booted into android, only while in recovery. Installing a kernel that fixed this bug will let you use supersu from the play store and other apps such as adfree which need to edit system files to function
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Yeah this is what I figured out too.
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Even with a writeable kernel SuperSu gives a hiccup at first. Download SuperUser, update the binary of SuperSu, then uninstall SuperUser. SuperSu will be fine after that.
orangechoochoo said:
Even with a writeable kernel SuperSu gives a hiccup at first. Download SuperUser, update the binary of SuperSu, then uninstall SuperUser. SuperSu will be fine after that.
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I never had an issue with supersu
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Bigandrewgold said:
I never had an issue with supersu
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Quite a few of us running a version of Supercharged Hatka had problems when they switched to SuperSu,but now they switched back to SuperUser and the problem hasn't reared its head.