Good morning guys,
Im not even sure where to start because im just getting into programming. I just tried to root my HTC rezound last night, so I followed the tutorial to the letter. Everything went very well by all accounts, except after unlocking bootloader, pda net, installed superuser, but yet when I try to verify that I have root access the phone does not recognise the root. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be? Ill be more than happy to post whatever information you might need in helping me figure this little problem out.
Thanks in advance!
-AJ
ajstipcak said:
Good morning guys,
Im not even sure where to start because im just getting into programming. I just tried to root my HTC rezound last night, so I followed the tutorial to the letter. Everything went very well by all accounts, except after unlocking bootloader, pda net, installed superuser, but yet when I try to verify that I have root access the phone does not recognise the root. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be? Ill be more than happy to post whatever information you might need in helping me figure this little problem out.
Thanks in advance!
-AJ
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Are you on Stock rom?
What Recovery?
s-on/s-off?
What process did you you use?
kc6wke said:
Are you on Stock rom?
What Recovery?
s-on/s-off?
What process did you you use?
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I'm not sure about a stock Rom, but I did a custom recovery and haven't touched s-on or s-off yet. I did unlock the bootloader and pda net using the walkthrough found at the htcdev.com /bootloader site. I don't know if I just need to find another walkthrough to finish the rooting process or if I'm way off here. The phone itself still works as good as ever so at least I didn't brick it. I feel like I'm close or at least on the right track.
kc6wke said:
Are you on Stock rom?
What Recovery?
s-on/s-off?
What process did you you use?
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I also remember flashing an image of something, was that a Rom?
Flash this in recovery
View attachment ICS-EnableRoot.zip
kc6wke said:
Flash this in recovery
View attachment 2049995
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sorry have been working some crazy hours. Seeing as Im real new at this, I tried the command
fastboot reboot bootloader
it rebooted in bootloader, then I typed fastboot flash all the files in your zip and none wanted to flash for me?
Can you break it down noob style for me please?
ajstipcak said:
sorry have been working some crazy hours. Seeing as Im real new at this, I tried the command
fastboot reboot bootloader
it rebooted in bootloader, then I typed fastboot flash all the files in your zip and none wanted to flash for me?
Can you break it down noob style for me please?
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What recovery did you install?
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What recovery did you install?
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everything ive done was in this walkthrough so far www htcdev com /bootloader/unlock-instructions
I am pretty sure it was android 17 system image
ajstipcak said:
everything ive done was in this walkthrough so far www htcdev com /bootloader/unlock-instructions
I am pretty sure it was android 17 system image
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pull your battery and re insert it.
hold vol down button and power until you get the white bootloader screen
The top should say unlocked in pink
if you have a custom recovery it will also say tampered in pink
since you are new and not sure, to continue we need to verify this
what does it say?
kc6wke said:
pull your battery and re insert it.
hold vol down button and power until you get the white bootloader screen
The top should say unlocked in pink
if you have a custom recovery it will also say tampered in pink
since you are new and not sure, to continue we need to verify this
what does it say?
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yeah definitely says tampered in pink
ajstipcak said:
yeah definitely says tampered in pink
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Do you know what recovery you have
amon-ra, twrp,cwm?
kc6wke said:
Do you know what recovery you have
amon-ra, twrp,cwm?
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Doesnt matter what recovery. Just as long as it is a custom recovery.
@ajstipcak
Download/Flash this in recovery NOT FASTBOOT
http://download.chainfire.eu/333/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.34.zip
Then install Busybox using this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox&hl=en
Inside the app choose /system/bin at the top checkmark replace all symlinks choose install then choose smart install.
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Do you know what recovery you have
amon-ra, twrp,cwm?
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not sure, but according to the guy below it doesnt matter as long as it was a custom recovery. Thats all the tutorial said was that it was a custom recovery.
ajstipcak said:
not sure, but according to the guy below it doesnt matter as long as it was a custom recovery. Thats all the tutorial said was that it was a custom recovery.
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No, it really doesn't.
I was just trying to get you familiar with it since this is all new to you
and give you a walkthrough for the recovery you installed.
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No, it really doesn't.
I was just trying to get you familiar with it since this is all new to you
and give you a walkthrough for the recovery you installed.
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ohhh right on. anywho, how close are we to pinpointing the problem? Was I on the right track at least? Whats the next step moving forward?
ajstipcak said:
ohhh right on. anywho, how close are we to pinpointing the problem? Was I on the right track at least? Whats the next step moving forward?
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stay online for a bit and I'll help you
kc6wke said:
stay online for a bit and I'll help you
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had a dentist appointment but im done now. ill stay if you are on
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i am posting this for my father. he tried to flash a kernal from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540840 but clicked on the wrong file and this bricked his phone after a spent a long time fixing it prior to this. now it is stuck on the white htc boot screen. i can get to bootloader and recovery but every rom i try and flash i get the same results. can anyone help me unbrick my fathers phone please?
You're not bricked. Go to dev sticky section. Amaze bible thread
Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using xda premium
glacierguy said:
You're not bricked. Go to dev sticky section. Amaze bible thread
Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using xda premium
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Look for the restore to stock option, follow that.
Dark Nightmare said:
Look for the restore to stock option, follow that.
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maybe i'm just blind and i hate to sound like a noob cause i'm not if this was my phone i could have fixed this already, but i don't see anything that says restore to stock. any chance you can clarify?
fixed the phone
i fixed the phone by flashing a kernal using hansoon's one click root tool. still having wifi issues any suggestions?
What kinda wifi issues?
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What kinda wifi issues?
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The phone won't connect to wifi and also I can not get busy box to install.
mc2821 said:
The phone won't connect to wifi and also I can not get busy box to install.
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Try fixing permissions and rebooting always works for me. If it doesnt works maybe its the rom u are using cheq on its tread for buggs and fixes
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if you keep having problems you can always just flash one of the RUUs and start the unlock process over.
Busybox won't install if you don't have superuser, re-root via hasoon's tool then try installing busybox, the wifi issue on the other hand is gonna require you to most likely flash back a stock RUU, or just try flashing any rom, see if that solves it.
relock the bootloader.
Backup the microSD card
Put the stock rom on the root folder of the SD card.
reboot into bootloader and let it install the stock rom. (it will erase the SD card i think).
Then re-root/re-unlock bootloader....flash away
Dark Nightmare said:
Busybox won't install if you don't have superuser, re-root via hasoon's tool then try installing busybox, the wifi issue on the other hand is gonna require you to most likely flash back a stock RUU, or just try flashing any rom, see if that solves it.
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I have superuser and root access confirmed with a root checker. I can't get any roms to install nor can I find good directions to flashing an ruu. Does flashing an ruu bring you back to stock?
mc2821 said:
I have superuser and root access confirmed with a root checker. I can't get any roms to install nor can I find good directions to flashing an ruu. Does flashing an ruu bring you back to stock?
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Yes, flashing a ruu restores everything to complete stock, try rooting again, then install busybox, after that, get 4EXT recovery, should be able to install any rom from then.
Dark Nightmare said:
Yes, flashing a ruu restores everything to complete stock, try rooting again, then install busybox, after that, get 4EXT recovery, should be able to install any rom from then.
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I am having a lot of trouble with finding an ruu that works. I have tried several threads followed the directions to a T. the most recent i took the files from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617644 and followed these instructions for s on device http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25303667&postcount=782. anyone have any other suggestions to help me get back to stock?
mc2821 said:
I am having a lot of trouble with finding an ruu that works. I have tried several threads followed the directions to a T. the most recent i took the files from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617644 and followed these instructions for s on device http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25303667&postcount=782. anyone have any other suggestions to help me get back to stock?
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What network are you on? And what version of android are you using?
Xda member Football has them in his signature. Amaze = Ruby
I think Krook has a thread too... Just search
Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using xda premium
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What network are you on? And what version of android are you using?
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t mobile and running ginger bread 2.3.4
mc2821 said:
t mobile and running ginger bread 2.3.4
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Download this: http://d-h.st/OIC
Rename it PH85IMG, place it on your sd card.
Power off your device, hold the volume down button and power it on, when it ask if you wanna update, press the volume up button, let it install, it should reboot when it's done.
Dark Nightmare said:
Download this: http://d-h.st/OIC
Rename it PH85IMG, place it on your sd card.
Power off your device, hold the volume down button and power it on, when it ask if you wanna update, press the volume up button, let it install, it should reboot when it's done.
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do i need to be locked on unlocked? every time i re-lock the bootloader the phone wont reboot to anything other then the bootloader screen
mc2821 said:
do i need to be locked on unlocked? every time i re-lock the bootloader the phone wont reboot to anything other then the bootloader screen
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Unlocked or not doesn't matter, just leave it unlocked.
So I was flashing a new rom in CWM on my AT&T Atrix 4G, unlocked bootloader, running CM10. I was going to flash CM9 because there was a bug in CM10, and when I went to wipe my dalvik cache, I hit the wrong menu option somehow and wiped an internal partition that must've been the one that CWM was on, so now I get the screen shown in the picture. Any ideas guys? Thx.
Njl6705 said:
So I was flashing a new rom in CWM on my AT&T Atrix 4G, unlocked bootloader, running CM10. I was going to flash CM9 because there was a bug in CM10, and when I went to wipe my dalvik cache, I hit the wrong menu option somehow and wiped an internal partition that must've been the one that CWM was on, so now I get the screen shown in the picture. Any ideas guys? Thx.
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what happens if you select #9 android recovery?
barry_ said:
what happens if you select #9 android recovery?
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I should have mentioned, that doesn't work. I get the error in the following picture.
Please help me! I forgot how awful using a feature phone is! lol
are you familiar with fastboot? What happens if you select fastboot? I am just thinking that you might try reflashing the recovery (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) but I am not great with fastboot but worth a look?
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saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHaDlRFocU might be of some help?
barry_ said:
are you familiar with fastboot? What happens if you select fastboot? I am just thinking that you might try reflashing the recovery (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) but I am not great with fastboot but worth a look?
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saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHaDlRFocU might be of some help?
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I'll give it a try. Thanks man! I was looking at SBF files, which I really wanted to avoid. I'll let you know what happens.
Nothing. The fastboot command line tool couldn't see my phone. I'm going to look for another guide. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
this? http://modmymobile.com/forums/661-motorola-atrix-4g-development/560719-how-recover-soft-brick.html
barry_ said:
this? http://modmymobile.com/forums/661-motorola-atrix-4g-development/560719-how-recover-soft-brick.html
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Driver issues. When I click yes to the error on the first button, the error in the second screenshot pops up.
By the way, I just want to say I appreciate the help and the quick replies.
Found the drivers and successfully flashed RomRacers Recovery through Fastboot! Thanks guys! She lives!:victory:
It's odd though, I just flashed cm10 and I'm having frequent random reboots and the screen calibration is off.
It looks like the trick here is a pds partition fix. I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back.
The pds partition worked.
Njl6705 said:
Driver issues. When I click yes to the error on the first button, the error in the second screenshot pops up.
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Njl6705 said:
By the way, I just want to say I appreciate the help and the quick replies.
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Njl6705 said:
Found the drivers and successfully flashed RomRacers Recovery through Fastboot! Thanks guys! She lives!:victory:
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Njl6705 said:
It's odd though, I just flashed cm10 and I'm having frequent random reboots and the screen calibration is off.
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Njl6705 said:
It looks like the trick here is a pds partition fix. I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back.
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Heard about edit function?
eagleeyetom said:
Heard about edit function?
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No, I haven't. Care to elaborate?
It means posting 5 posts one after the other instead of simply editing the first one is frowned upon.
ravilov said:
It means posting 5 posts one after the other instead of simply editing the first one is frowned upon.
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Oh. Haha that edit function. I thought he was talking about something in android. N00b here. Sorry.
Njl6705 said:
Found the drivers and successfully flashed RomRacers Recovery through Fastboot! Thanks guys! She lives!:victory:
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good to see you got there in the end :good:
a little help
Njl6705 said:
Found the drivers and successfully flashed RomRacers Recovery through Fastboot! Thanks guys! She lives!:victory:
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I am a RAZR user and have it all rooted and running great so I am fairly competent but a co-worker has the ATRIX and it was in a bootloop. I offered to help and find myself practically where you were except I have no OS on the phone and can not seem to get recovery on it.
Can you share where you found the right drivers, recovery, and a good OS? Basically I need someone to hold my hand through this because I do not have the time to keep looking for the right things since I have a kitchen remodel underway and a wife who....need I say more?
Thanks
can't recover from this
Njl6705 said:
So I was flashing a new rom in CWM on my AT&T Atrix 4G, unlocked bootloader, running CM10. I was going to flash CM9 because there was a bug in CM10, and when I went to wipe my dalvik cache, I hit the wrong menu option somehow and wiped an internal partition that must've been the one that CWM was on, so now I get the screen shown in the picture. Any ideas guys? Thx.
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I got exactly what you did. But even in fastboot mode I can't get out of this screen after flashing the recovery. Actually it does not get into CWM or another recovery but each time I Vol and Power Down it gets into this screen again. Looks like flashing does not help at all. If I select Boot Android it powers up in the last ROM I flashed before all this. The problem is that I cannot operate any soft button at the bottom: the screen looks not calibrated so I need to push on areas lower than actual buttons are, and I don't know how to get out of that either. No Back, neither Home or Search buttons are unreachable.
What can I do? How to reflash this phone?
If you activate the RSD mode you can flash your stock rom with RSDLite. There is a superthread with the original firmwares, you will lose root and unlock but it will restore completely your device
I just got this in the mail today. Does anyone have any insights on how to unlock the bootloader and inject root? I had assumed 'fastboot' would work, but this has ODIN. I'm sure I could follow the steps on the original S4, but I don't know what the downstream effects will be.
Thanks!
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Edit: Please see this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44322019&postcount=70
Ok, just got done rooting my gs4 vzw dev edition. It was really pretty simple.
Steps from my win8 laptop were...
Install samsung drivers,
get adb working (android sdk doesn't seem to work on win8.. but just the adb files are all you need, google adb platform-tools or just use win7)
dl and push your superuser zip to the sdcard or external sdcard
dl odin 3.07 and extract to pc
dl and make tar.md5 of your favorite recovery. ( i personally like cwm )
Then all I did was... reboot phone in to odin mode... while phone is powered off, hold vol down + power
Start odin.exe
uncheck auto-reboot
click pda button, select the recovery file.md5
press start and let it finish, only takes a few secs...
once done.. reboot in to recovery, and flash the superuser.zip u pushed over to it.
Vol up + power to boot in to recovery. for me i just booted the phone normally... used "adb reboot recovery" then flashed superuser.zip.
reboot your phone and done.
good idea to make a backup while ur in recovery
If someone has hosting, i can send the files needed.
-r4ph
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Okay, so I couldn't wait!
I followed the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798 and was able to gain root access.
I have yet to take the plunge on a custom recovery, but I'm sure I'll do that soon.
Additionally, the boot screen now has a picture of an "unlocked" lock, and the words "Samsung" "Custom". I guess they know that this has been flashed.
How did you order this prior to it being available on the Samsung Web site?
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equake said:
How did you order this prior to it being available on the Samsung Web site?
Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2
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It became available yesterday, and I got overnight shipping.
tithefug said:
It became available yesterday, and I got overnight shipping.
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Is it full of VW blot ware?
rcb929 said:
Is it full of VW blot ware?
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Yes. The only difference is that this has an unlocked bootloader by default.
tithefug said:
Okay, so I couldn't wait!
I followed the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798 and was able to gain root access.
I have yet to take the plunge on a custom recovery, but I'm sure I'll do that soon.
Additionally, the boot screen now has a picture of an "unlocked" lock, and the words "Samsung" "Custom". I guess they know that this has been flashed.
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Mine comes tomorrow or Monday. So, despite it being unlocked, you still had to go thru that kernel replacement root method? Hmmm. I would have thought there would have been an easier way, no?
markwebb said:
Mine comes tomorrow or Monday. So, despite it being unlocked, you still had to go thru that kernel replacement root method? Hmmm. I would have thought there would have been an easier way, no?
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Probably. But, I knew that would work.
tithefug said:
Probably. But, I knew that would work.
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Couldn't you have just skipped the kernel replacement steps and just run motochopper step in that tutorial?
I think we need more insight from our all powerful devs on the best/easiest way to root a Dev Edition phone.
markwebb said:
Couldn't you have just skipped the kernel replacement steps and just run motochopper step in that tutorial?
I think we need more insight from our all powerful devs on the best/easiest way to root a Dev Edition phone.
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Maybe. Either way it worked for me.
That being said, when I flashed the latest CM10.1-Nightly, the screen went blank (no boot animation). I restored my backup, so I still have a working device.
tithefug said:
Okay, so I couldn't wait!
I followed the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798 and was able to gain root access.
I have yet to take the plunge on a custom recovery, but I'm sure I'll do that soon.
Additionally, the boot screen now has a picture of an "unlocked" lock, and the words "Samsung" "Custom". I guess they know that this has been flashed.
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I ended up doing the same as you and had to do all the steps too in order for it to work. Now I keep getting a warning message "this device has detected an unauthorized attempt..." trying to get me to reboot though. Can the master devs find something for the developer edition phones to have an easier time rooting?
And I also bought my phone and ordered it for next day shipping, so worth it!
tithefug said:
Okay, so I couldn't wait!
I followed the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798 and was able to gain root access.
I have yet to take the plunge on a custom recovery, but I'm sure I'll do that soon.
Additionally, the boot screen now has a picture of an "unlocked" lock, and the words "Samsung" "Custom". I guess they know that this has been flashed.
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The boot message you see when you power on your device means your device is rooted. I have the same exact thing when I rooted mine. I got mine from a Verizon store.
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tithefug said:
Maybe. Either way it worked for me.
That being said, when I flashed the latest CM10.1-Nightly, the screen went blank (no boot animation). I restored my backup, so I still have a working device.
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What backup method are you using: CWM or TWRP?
cmmelton2 said:
I ended up doing the same as you and had to do all the steps too in order for it to work. Now I keep getting a warning message "this device has detected an unauthorized attempt..." trying to get me to reboot though. Can the master devs find something for the developer edition phones to have an easier time rooting?
And I also bought my phone and ordered it for next day shipping, so worth it!
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Search for the phrase used in the notification. It had to so with SEAndroid. You have to delete/rename KNOXAgent.apk, KNOXAgent.odex from /system and com.sec.knox.seandroid from /data/data
Have fun!
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What backup method are you using: CWM or TWRP?
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TWRP. I installed it using the GooManager app.
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TWRP. I installed it using the GooManager app.
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OK, thanks. I am just noticing a thread on TWRP issues and am nervous about it. However, you were able to back up the stock out of the box ROM and then restore it w/o a hitch?
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OK, thanks. I am just noticing a thread on TWRP issues and am nervous about it. However, you were able to back up the stock out of the box ROM and then restore it w/o a hitch?
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Yep. I'm going to try CM again in a little while. Now that the official camera/gallery is out, I have less reasons to. But the ridiculousness that is the notification pane might just send me over the edge.
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Yep. I'm going to try CM again in a little while. Now that the official camera/gallery is out, I have less reasons to. But the ridiculousness that is the notification pane might just send me over the edge.
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Was just wondering if you tried CM yet?
markwebb said:
I think we need more insight from our all powerful devs on the best/easiest way to root a Dev Edition phone.
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I would also like to see the best/correct way to root the Developer Edition.
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Was just wondering if you tried CM yet?
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Not yet. It's going to have to wait until tomorrow. Sorry.
I've unlocked my bootloader, rooted and installed CWM custom recovery. Not surprisingly the Sense 6 update will download but it won't install. I tried to flash it manually with CWM but that won't work either. Again, no surprise.
Is there a workaround that I can use to install the Sense 6 update?
appro77 said:
I've unlocked my bootloader, rooted and installed CWM custom recovery. Not surprisingly the Sense 6 update will download but it won't install. I tried to flash it manually with CWM but that won't work either. Again, no surprise.
Is there a workaround that I can use to install the Sense 6 update?
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Yes, you need the stock recovery not custom recovery to install the ota plus stock rom installed.
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Yes, you need the stock recovery not custom recovery to install the ota plus stock rom installed.
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Ok, I flashed stock recovery and the update looked like it was going to install but it failed about a third of the way through and gave me a red triangle. I rebooted and fortunately the phone is still working. I tried installing the update a second time with the same result. Any ideas?
appro77 said:
Ok, I flashed stock recovery and the update looked like it was going to install but it failed about a third of the way through and gave me a red triangle. I rebooted and fortunately the phone is still working. I tried installing the update a second time with the same result. Any ideas?
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You have to have a pure stock rom. You may have to nandroid a stock or RUU but you have to decide that, but it have to be stock not root or any system file edits. Sorry, missed the bootloader need to be locked.
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You have to have a pure stock rom. You may have to nandroid a stock or RUU but you have to decide that, but it have to be stock not root or any system file edits. Sorry, missed the bootloader need to be locked.
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My rom is stock (Telstra Australia) but I've installed a few Xposed mods. If I do a factory reset I'm assuming that will take the rom back to stock. If I then remove root and relock the bootloader will I then be ok to flash the Sense 6 update?
Mate, I'm having same issue, Telstra Australia.
Check out his thread. I think you need to save three files that get wiped when you unlock bootloader. The update looks for them. I'm still trying to get it to work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2800140
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Mate, I'm having same issue, Telstra Australia.
Check out his thread. I think you need to save three files that get wiped when you unlock bootloader. The update looks for them. I'm still trying to get it to work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2800140
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Thanks. I tried the 3 files thing and it didn't work for me probably because the bootloader was still unlocked. I got sick of dicking around with it and decided to try to get S-off which I'd been having trouble achieving with Hboot 2.49. Finally got S-off and then flashed this.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53890999
Cheers.
appro77 said:
My rom is stock (Telstra Australia) but I've installed a few Xposed mods. If I do a factory reset I'm assuming that will take the rom back to stock. If I then remove root and relock the bootloader will I then be ok to flash the Sense 6 update?
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appro77 said:
Thanks. I tried the 3 files thing and it didn't work for me probably because the bootloader was still unlocked. I got sick of dicking around with it and decided to try to get S-off which I'd been having trouble achieving with Hboot 2.49. Finally got S-off and then flashed this.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53890999
Cheers.
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Which method did you use to gain s-off? I couldn't get it to work.
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Which method did you use to gain s-off? I couldn't get it to work.
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Nothing was working for me and I'd almost given up but I was pointed to this.... http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/
I was already rooted but for some reason the first method wouldn't work for me. ADB is very new to me so I may have done something wrong even though I tried it a couple of times. I used the second method but didn't use temproot cause I figured as I was already rooted I didn't need it. When I used the commands in the second method S-off was achieved.
The rom I mentioned above looks really good btw.
Cjohn1200 said:
Which method did you use to gain s-off? I couldn't get it to work.
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appro77 said:
Nothing was working for me and I'd almost given up but I was pointed to this.... http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/
I was already rooted but for some reason the first method wouldn't work for me. ADB is very new to me so I may have done something wrong even though I tried it a couple of times. I used the second method but didn't use temproot cause I figured as I was already rooted I didn't need it. When I used the commands in the second method S-off was achieved.
The rom I mentioned above looks really good btw.
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Yeah it does look pretty slick. Wasn't sure about the large icons through. I watched a review on youtube. Looked a little strange...
Cjohn1200 said:
Yeah it does look pretty slick. Wasn't sure about the large icons through. I watched a review on youtube. Looked a little strange...
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Not sure what you are referring to there. I didn't see anything overly large. Was that on the stock launcher? I'm using Apex.
When the OTA update fails and you get the red triangle, have you tried holding the vol up button then pushing the power button?
This should take you to stock recovery and you can see why the update failed...
Might give you a point to work from.
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When the OTA update fails and you get the red triangle, have you tried holding the vol up button then pushing the power button?
This should take you to stock recovery and you can see why the update failed...
Might give you a point to work from.
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No I didn't do that. I'm on a custom recovery and custom rom now though.
I'm all back to stock with the three files saved. Just waiting for the OTA update to download now.
I'll let you know if it works.
So what's the sense 6 camera app like? I have never really been happy with the camera on the max.
Cjohn1200 said:
So what's the sense 6 camera app like? I have never really been happy with the camera on the max.
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I haven't had a really good look at it but I don't like the fact that you have to tap a button before you choose video. On the old app both camera and video were one tap away. Now if you aren't in video already it's 2 taps.
appro77 said:
No I didn't do that. I'm on a custom recovery and custom rom now though.
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I ended up getting this to work....
When you save the three files that are missing with a root file manager, you have to save them to \data\preload NOT system\data\preload
Worked a treat after I did this:good:
How did you get firewater to work?
I keep getting a kernel error. It says that my kernel has a anti firewater patch. Very frustrating i just want to be able to lock my bootloader so my finger print scanner works properly again.
Cjohn1200 said:
I ended up getting this to work....
When you save the three files that are missing with a root file manager, you have to save them to \data\preload NOT system\data\preload
Worked a treat after I did this:good:
How did you get firewater to work?
I keep getting a kernel error. It says that my kernel has a anti firewater patch. Very frustrating i just want to be able to lock my bootloader so my finger print scanner works properly again.
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That's interesting what you say about the 3 files. Now I know why it wouldn't work for me. Regarding Firewater I just followed the instructions in the link I posted earlier.
I've actually reverted to a Nandroid of my stock Sense 5.5 rom. I like it better than Sense 6.
I did some searches and came up short. I have my bootloader unlock code. Can somebody link me to a root guide for the latest stock rom please? I don't want to install a custom rom. Just install root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68312045
First few steps?
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So just to clarify, all I have to do is fastboot to twrp? I don't need to install it? It's confusing. "Boot to recovery and had TWRP"?? Never rooted a phone before. If somebody could go into greater detail, that would be great.
To get root and TWRP.
Credit to Foltz61.
1. Boot to bootloader.
2. Fastboot boot TWRP-L.img
3. Install supersu-2.49.zip (even though I didn't lose root)
4. Reboot back to system.
5. Reboot back to bootloader.
6. fastboot flash recovery TWRP-L.img.
7. fastboot reboot.
8. Boot to recovery and had TWRP
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kgonepostl said:
So just to clarify, all I have to do is fastboot to twrp? I don't need to install it? It's confusing. "Boot to recovery and had TWRP"?? Never rooted a phone before. If somebody could go into greater detail, that would be great.
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Go to youtube search huawei mate 2 look for videos by Super Bass he will show you all you need to know.
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Go to youtube search huawei mate 2 look for videos by Super Bass he will show you all you need to know.
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I'm pretty sure that video only applies to the Jellybean stock from for the HAM2. Am I wrong? I'm on the Lollipop rom.
kgonepostl said:
I'm pretty sure that video only applies to the Jellybean stock from for the HAM2. Am I wrong? I'm on the Lollipop rom.
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Sorry, I didn't read all of your post, I can't help you..
kgonepostl said:
So just to clarify, all I have to do is fastboot to twrp? I don't need to install it? It's confusing. "Boot to recovery and had TWRP"?? Never rooted a phone before. If somebody could go into greater detail, that would be great.
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I tried to CyanogenMod my phone. I could not even install twrp. I found those instructions from a link here (supposedly everything one may need to know about the Mate 2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3149530
I tried the link on my phone and it goes to the last post. Please start with the first post....
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jzchen said:
I tried to CyanogenMod my phone. I could not even install twrp. I found those instructions from a link here (supposedly everything one may need to know about the Mate 2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3149530
I tried the link on my phone and it goes to the last post. Please start with the first post....
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You were eventually able to install twrp though right? Seems pretty straight forward and easy. Unlock bootloader, setup adb on comp, enable adb on phone, boot into twrp, flash custom recovery.
kgonepostl said:
You were eventually able to install twrp though right? Seems pretty straight forward and easy. Unlock bootloader, setup adb on comp, enable adb on phone, boot into twrp, flash custom recovery.
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Nope. I missed that the unlock part was necessary! Thank you for giving the details though!!!!
When I figured that Device Only mode gives decent GPS use for maps, directions, and Pokémon Go I just decided to leave it be. Plus all this concern with root and Pokémon Go not working. I don't play much but I keep my phone as backup when my son's battery dies.
Thanks again!
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kgonepostl said:
I did some searches and came up short. I have my bootloader unlock code. Can somebody link me to a root guide for the latest stock rom please? I don't want to install a custom rom. Just install root.
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Can you tell me how to unlock my bootloader