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How to root the CDMA Hero

Ok everyone. First off do not update your phone if Sprint offers an upate. I don't think they are going to but if they do anytime soon and you update this exploit could likely be fixed. When updates are released the devs will make updates that keep root so do not update!
That said, this is a very newbie guide. This is meant for Windows but I will post instructions for linux as well (Ubuntu). I just need to warn you that I can't adb into my phone from Ubuntu so I have to do it through Windows. Don't know why it doesnt work but it doesnt. Mac users you can always (assuming you can get it to work in Ubuntu) download a live cd and boot into Ubuntu to try this. I don't have a mac (nor do I want one) so I can't give instructions (though I assume they should be relatively the same).
Step 1:
First you need to download the Android SDK. It may soumd confusing but it's not. There are tools in here that we need. You can get it from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. This is a modular SDK and all the tools we need are in this download. Once downloaded you just need to extract it in a directory of choice.
The next thing we download is asroot2. This is a script that was developed that runs an exploit in Android's linux that allows us to run root. The link for that is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=244212&d=1257621154. Unzip that file and place it in a directory of your choice. Also download http://www.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img and place that into the same directory you extracted asroot2.
Step 2:
Connect the phone to the USB port.
Ubuntu is easy for this (again assuming it works for you). Simply open a terminal and cd into the directory that you extracted the sdk into. Then cd into the tools directory. Then run the following commands:
sudo ./adb push /directory_you_placed_asroot2/asroot2 /data/local/
sudo ./adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
If all goes well you should be presented with a new prompt. This is the linux terminal built into Android. This will allow us to execute all the commands we need to execute because the asroot2 script gave us root access.
In Windows it is a little more difficult. You have to first install the driver for the phone. When Windows asks you for the drivers direct Windows to the directory you extracted the SDK into. You should see a folder called usb_driver. If you are running the 32 bit version of Windows select the x86 folder. If you are using a 64 bit version then select the x64 folder. Then select the android_usb.inf file. This should install the drivers.
If running XP or lower you will need to go to the start menu and click run, then you enter cmd and press enter. If Vista or higher you will press the start button and type cmd and press enter. When you are at the command prompt you cd to the directory you extracted the sdk into. Then cd into the tools directory. Then execute the following commands:
adb push /directory_you_placed_asroot2/asroot2 /data/local/
adb shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
Now your phone is officially rooted! We arent done yet though. Now you need to flash the recovery image. If you are still in adb shell type in exit until you are out. You should be in the directory where you extracted the recovery image. If not go there. Type in the following:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
Once that is done, type in adb shell (or sudo ./adb shell in ubuntu). If your command prompt is a dollar sign then type in su and press enter. If it is a pound sign you are good. Then type in the following:
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
Once that is finished you are done. To reboot into recovery type in adb shell reboot recovery. You should reboot into recovery mode. Right now there is not a lot you can do but once we have some devs who make some roms then we will be well on our way to an even more awesome phone. Any questions please ask away. Also, I am sorry if this tutorial is hard to understand or badly laid out. My daughter is crawling all over me so it's hard to type or think. Good luck all and thanks to everyone who rooted this phone and made the recovery and did such a great job!

chuckhriczko said:
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
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Is this the right command, every time I try I get : "adb: not found"
The transfer to the sd card seemed to go fine, and I am @ root (#).
Am I missing something?

You beat me to it!!!! I was planning on laying out the steps to make sure I had my head on straight.
To continue with your guide: (The following are questions, not procedures)
1. We run a Nandroid back up to lock in our stock ROM so if we ever do something stupid, aka brick the phone, we can push this back on?
2. What comes on the SD card? Is it needing to be backed up when I go to a 16GB class 6 card?
3. Insert the new SDcard and use the ext2/swap/fat32 script
4. convert ext2 to ext3, (now ready for apps2SD?)
Anything else you can add would be nice.
Again thanks for the steps! They are clear for me.

rockcrawler said:
Is this the right command, every time I try I get : "adb: not found"
The transfer to the sd card seemed to go fine, and I am @ root (#).
Am I missing something?
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Sounds like you need to add the directory where you have adb to be added to he path. is your adb in the same dir as the image?

rockcrawler said:
Is this the right command, every time I try I get : "adb: not found"
The transfer to the sd card seemed to go fine, and I am @ root (#).
Am I missing something?
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You may currently be in adb shell already. If you are showing the pound sign this is likely. The command is supposed to be run outside of adb shell. Try the command below:
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img

Treefallingquietly said:
Sounds like you need to add the directory where you have adb to be added to he path. is your adb in the same dir as the image?
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I apologize, but that went right over my head.
I have used this command to copy the image to the sd card.
Code:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
I got this output:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /s
dcard/
1640 KB/s (3352576 bytes in 1.996s)
I then do the following with the noted result:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
$ su
su
# adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
adb: not found
Any help as to where I making my mistake would be greatly appreciated.

Treefallingquietly said:
You beat me to it!!!! I was planning on laying out the steps to make sure I had my head on straight.
To continue with your guide: (The following are questions, not procedures)
1. We run a Nandroid back up to lock in our stock ROM so if we ever do something stupid, aka brick the phone, we can push this back on?
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Yes. A nandroid backup completely backs up every piece of information on your phone. It is a complete image of your phone and if it needs to be restored for whatever reason you just load up recovery and can restore it the way it was before.
Treefallingquietly said:
2. What comes on the SD card? Is it needing to be backed up when I go to a 16GB class 6 card?
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What do you mean exactly? The only thing that gets copied to an sd card is the nandroid backup so yes, when switching to an sd card just do another backup. Or you can also copy the nandroid folder from your existing sd card to your new one.
Treefallingquietly said:
3. Insert the new SDcard and use the ext2/swap/fat32 script
4. convert ext2 to ext3, (now ready for apps2SD?)
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Yes and no. Just run the ext2/swap/fat32 script and it should be ready for apps2sd. You can convert to ext3 if you want. Generally on normal hard drives ext3 is faster, however there has been some controversy with that on android phones. As for converting to apps2sd, right now the best way is probably the manual method which I can write up a tutorial on as well. The dream forum has some good tutorials on it as they were the first to do it. I actually need to go back and re read some of those because it's been so long since I did it. I tried the apps2sd apk but that didnt seem to work for me.

rockcrawler said:
I apologize, but that went right over my head.
I have used this command to copy the image to the sd card.
Code:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
I got this output:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /s
dcard/
1640 KB/s (3352576 bytes in 1.996s)
I then do the following with the noted result:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
$ su
su
# adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
adb: not found
Any help as to where I making my mistake would be greatly appreciated.
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Yeah. The problem is that you are trying to adb shell twice. After you adb push then just run the command adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img. That should work.

chuckhriczko said:
You may currently be in adb shell already. If you are showing the pound sign this is likely. The command is supposed to be run outside of adb shell. Try the command below:
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
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Now I get the Following:
Code:
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
error opening recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img: No such file or directory
#
And this outside adb shell, in the same directory where I did the push:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-
RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
error opening recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img: No such file or directory
Ideas?

rockcrawler said:
Is this the right command, every time I try I get : "adb: not found"
The transfer to the sd card seemed to go fine, and I am @ root (#).
Am I missing something?
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yes he left out the /sdcard/in the path and if you are in teh shell you don't need the adb portion of the command.

rockcrawler said:
Now I get the Following:
Code:
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
error opening recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img: No such file or directory
#
And this outside adb shell, in the same directory where I did the push:
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-
RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
error opening recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img: No such file or directory
Ideas?
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Ok. Most likely you dont have the recovery image in the directory. Try this. Copy the recovery image to the tools directory of the sdk. Then, outside of adb shell, (making sure you are in the tools directory of the sdk) execute the following command:
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
This should work as long as you have the recovery image in the correct directory.

can i use the rom from modaco? or at least the themes?

magicalan said:
can i use the rom from modaco? or at least the themes?
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No way! This rom is a GSM rom and if it works at all and does not brick your phone then it wont have the right software to make your phone work. A dev has to create a rom specially for the CDMA Hero that has the right drivers.

chuckhriczko said:
Ok. Most likely you dont have the recovery image in the directory. Try this. Copy the recovery image to the tools directory of the sdk. Then, outside of adb shell, (making sure you are in the tools directory of the sdk) execute the following command:
adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
This should work as long as you have the recovery image in the correct directory.
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I am feeling really special, not being able to make this work, but that is the folder that it has been in all this time. I have even downloaded and pushed it several times. Proof:
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So I am not sure where I am messing up.
Thanks for all the help and hard work on this BTW!

rockcrawler said:
I am feeling really special, not being able to make this work, but that is the folder that it has been in all this time. I have even downloaded and pushed it several times. Proof:
So I am not sure where I am messing up.
Thanks for all the help and hard work on this BTW!
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Meh. Not hard work. Just experience. The hard work is what the rom devs do. And it is difficult at first but once you get it trust me, you get it.Okay let's try this. Go into the command prompt (not adb shell) into the folder where adb and the recovery image is. Try to execute the following command and see if it works.
Code:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
This will put the recovery image on the sdcard. If this works then we will continue.

chuckhriczko said:
Meh. Not hard work. Just experience. The hard work is what the rom devs do. And it is difficult at first but once you get it trust me, you get it.Okay let's try this. Go into the command prompt (not adb shell) into the folder where adb and the recovery image is. Try to execute the following command and see if it works.
Code:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
This will put the recovery image on the sdcard. If this works then we will continue.
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Done.
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /s
dcard/
1747 KB/s (3352576 bytes in 1.873s)
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>

rockcrawler said:
Done.
Code:
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /s
dcard/
1747 KB/s (3352576 bytes in 1.873s)
C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>
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Sweetness. Ok. Now type in the following:
Code:
$ adb shell
$ cd /sdcard/
$ su
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
That should work. Note, don't type in the $ or the #. Those are just there to show what the command prompt should look like.

THANK YOU!!!!!
chuckhriczko said:
Sweetness. Ok. Now type in the following:
Code:
$ adb shell
$ cd /sdcard/
$ su
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
That should work. Note, don't type in the $ or the #. Those are just there to show what the command prompt should look like.
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Worked Like a charm, THANK YOU!!! Just booted to the recovery image and all is well.
p.s. Might want to edit the origional instructions, one your daughter goes to bed, to include the cd to the sd card, that is where my problem was.

rockcrawler said:
Worked Like a charm, THANK YOU!!! Just booted to the recovery image and all is well.
p.s. Might want to edit the origional instructions, one your daughter goes to bed, to include the cd to the sd card, that is where my problem was.
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If I am able to I will. I understand that the instructions were a little hard to follow for beginners which was what I wanted to avoid. Glad you got it working though. Welcome to the world of Android hacking and please enjoy your stay

I'm getting suck trying to push the recovery img out to my sdcard
Code:
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
cannot stat 'recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img': No such file or directory
I believe I have root access:
Code:
C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell
$ su
su
#

[HOW TO] Fix Quickboot as well as reboot into recovery from ROM Manager.

For those of you who want to use Quickboot
OR
Have ROM Manager from market and want to "Reboot into recovery" directly, do this
Extract Reboot from Reboot.zip and place it in \androidsdk\tools folder
Then
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
exit
adb push reboot /system/bin
adb shell
cd /system/bin/
ls
chmod 755 reboot
chmod 755 /system/bin/reboot
And of course, this can't be done in Android system. You would have to boot to toast's recovery.
Also, i didn't know the command to push from shell, therefore the redundant adb shell. =)

so this takes out the HBoot? and goes straight to Recovery Rom?

unfortunately no,
but it lets you skip the step "Vol up+power" and go straight to stock recovery.
From there you can use the "fake-flash"

awesome...Thanks for sharing, i will try this

I would recommend "rm /system/bin/reboot" before pushing the new one.

Great job! Works like a charm!

I guess TheBiles and I were posting in the wrong sub-forum?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695978

wcasdf said:
For those of you who want to use Quickboot
OR
Have ROM Manager from market and want to "Reboot into recovery" directly, do this
Extract Reboot from Reboot.zip and place it in \androidsdk\tools folder
Then
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
exit
adb push reboot /system/bin
adb shell
cd /system/bin/
ls
chmod 755 reboot
chmod 755 /system/bin/reboot
And of course, this can't be done in Android system. You would have to boot to toast's recovery.
Also, i didn't know the command to push from shell, therefore the redundant adb shell. =)
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C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>adb shell
# mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
# exit
what am i doing wrong??

worked great, we are only one step away now

Help......
Hi Sorry to bother..
Have started the process got to push the file to the system bin. However when then attempting the next command adb shell, i recieve the following error:-
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Not a directory (20) -
Any advice????
Cheers
Andy
.....Extract Reboot from Reboot.zip and place it in \androidsdk\tools folder
Then
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
exit
adb push reboot /system/bin
adb shell
cd /system/bin/
ls
chmod 755 reboot
chmod 755 /system/bin/reboot

wcasdf this will also useful for desire user, i have pushed reboot into /system/bin but didnt sames to work
desire /system is /dev/block/mtdblock3, this is the problem?

Sorted....
Kali- said:
wcasdf this will also useful for desire user, i have pushed reboot into /system/bin but didnt sames to work
desire /system is /dev/block/mtdblock3, this is the problem?
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Absolutely right Kali........the mtdblock3 resolved the issue.....now able to enter recovery mode and also back up rom.....
Brilliant....many thanks......

watzone69 said:
I guess TheBiles and I were posting in the wrong sub-forum?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695978
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I was just afraid the thread would get moved with these super-strict mods in this board.
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Worked great. Now the reboot commands in ROM Manager and Quick Boot work.

tells me reboot file is not there its in the androidsdk\tools folder

Sporkman said:
tells me reboot file is not there its in the androidsdk\tools folder
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adb push is pretty versatile, you can give it absolute paths. if you downloaded the reboot file to a different directory, example:
adb push c:\downloads\reboot /system/bin/reboot
hope that helps!
OP: where did this reboot binary come from?
im running PC36IMG.zip and reboot recovery and reboot bootloader both work in normal android mode ...

joeykrim said:
adb push is pretty versatile, you can give it absolute paths. if you downloaded the reboot file to a different directory, example:
adb push c:\downloads\reboot /system/bin/reboot
hope that helps!
OP: where did this reboot binary come from?
im running PC36IMG.zip and reboot recovery and reboot bootloader both work in normal android mode ...
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i dropped the file in C:\androidsdk\tools WHERE it needs to be

trying to figure this for my desire i understand block needs to be 3 and the rest the same but
keep getting device or resource busy when trying the mount command?

fixed it..you need to be in recovery before doing the above-otherwise you get a resource busy message
dont forget to change to block3 not 4 if using desire- rom manger now works as it should !! thanks

joeykrim said:
...OP: where did this reboot binary come from?
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I'm not the OP but I originally got mine from the Hero sub-forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5356050&postcount=623

How to root the Droid 2

All credit for the binary goes to Sebastian Krahmer at http://c-skills.blogspot.com/. Please see fit to donate via Paypal to [email protected]
If you want a simpler 'one-click' process, go to this thread: Easier 1-2-3 Droid 2 Root for Windows / Linux / Mac
***NOTE: Proceed at your own risk. I and the providers of this code are not responsible for anything you do to your phone!***
Setup:
- Install adb (here) and Motorola drivers for windows(32-bit or 64-bit)
- Download attached archive
- Extract to a directory, I used c:\Droid2Root
- Make sure you have USB degugging enabled
- Change connection to PC Mode
Process:
- Open command prompt
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- cd c:/Droid2Root
- adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
- adb push su /sdcard/su
- adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
- adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- adb shell
- cd data/local/tmp
- chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- let the process run until it 'kicks' you out (may take a minute or two) to c:/Droid2Root
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb kill-server
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- adb shell (you should now have a # prompt, if not return to ./rage step above)
- mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
- cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
- cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
- mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- exit
- exit
I'm sure there are certain steps that could be streamlined or eliminated, so please feel free to make a suggestion and I'll edit the post.
Additional thanks to @rainabba and AllDroid.org for their excellent Droid X rooting tutorial, which assisted me greatly in this process.

waiting for a recovery, glad to see its rooted

Android n00b here, I can remove the Verizon crapware with this right? And tether?

thelolotov said:
Android n00b here, I can remove the Verizon crapware with this right? And tether?
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yes and yes

thelolotov said:
Android n00b here, I can remove the Verizon crapware with this right? And tether?
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I wouldn't remove anything yet since we don't have a sbf file to recover from partial bricks. However, tethering and any other apps that require root can be used now.

I'm new to doing this all the adb way.
When you say extract to a directory what do you mean to extract. After it downloads the achive files its done.....
i understand the rest of the commands but im lost there

Hmm, alright, that's still worth it, will I lose my data/have to hard reset to root?

Right click the downloaded archive and "extract files". You need to do this so adb can push them to the phone.

thelolotov said:
Hmm, alright, that's still worth it, will I lose my data/have to hard reset to root?
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Nope, it just gives you access. Nothing deleted.

I'm retarded i didnt realize it was attached to the post, i thought it was what adb downloaded when i first opened it cause it called them archives.

cannot access
I got as far as pushing super user su and busy box onto my phone but it says that system in read only.. how do i fix this?

Anybody actually try this?

Hello,
I am following your directions and when I get to the "adb push Superuser.apk" step I receive the following error:
"failed to copy 'Superuser.apk' to '/system/app/Superuser.apk': Read-only file system"
I get this same error for the other adb push steps that follow.
Edit: To verify, I get a # shell.
Edit 2: I tried pushing the Superuser.apk to /data/local/tmp then cp to /system/app/, this also popped up a read-only file system error.

I'm currently trying it.
I have a 64 bit driver on my computer that i used to use for my D1 but it doesn't recognize my D2 when doing adb devices and i cant install the 32 bit driver

GSletta said:
I got as far as pushing super user su and busy box onto my phone but it says that system in read only.. how do i fix this?
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Did you verify you have the # prompt three steps before that?

Yeah i get the # but it wont let me push superuser su and busybox

GSletta said:
Yeah i get the # but it wont let me push superuser su and busybox
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Weird.. I didn't need to mount the system manually, but let me if there's a step I left out.

and some more screens (feel free to use in first post):
http://i.imgur.com/nPllt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/COTEA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/open3.jpg

djh816 said:
and some more screens (feel free to use in first post):
http://i.imgur.com/nPllt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/COTEA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/open3.jpg
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Did you add any steps to mount the system? I don't believe I did, but it seems others are finding it to be read-only.

jerseyh22accord said:
I'm currently trying it.
I have a 64 bit driver on my computer that i used to use for my D1 but it doesn't recognize my D2 when doing adb devices and i cant install the 32 bit driver
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Don't know if it will help you, but if it's anything like the DInc, you could just use the SDK's drivers and add a few device identifier lines to the INF file before installing them.

[Q] How to deodex my phone?

Hi guys,
i got one question to ask - how to deodex my phone?
I used xUltimate and deodexed the apps but the commands to coppy it to the phone seems not to work at all.
So how to copy done_app and done_framework to phone? I tried to use cmd in windows and adb shell but it says that cd command is not valid.

cube7 said:
Hi guys,
i got one question to ask - how to deodex my phone?
I used xUltimate and deodexed the apps but the commands to coppy it to the phone seems not to work at all.
So how to copy done_app and done_framework to phone? I tried to use cmd in windows and adb shell but it says that cd command is not valid.
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FOLLOW THIS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068027
Deodex
Advantages or disadvantages
- Odexed ROMs are slightly faster, deodexed ROMs are slightly slower
+ You can make custom themes for your ROM
+ Performance los is negligible.
Requirements:
Download XUltimate
Busybox installed
Root
1. Connect phone to computer
2. Start xUltimate, we will now get the required files from our phone to deodex and zipalign it which we will describe in the 3rd step.
3. On the main menu of xUltimate, choose option 5 (Pull and deodex all). Everything will be done for you here. Don't worry. You will see all your finished files in the folders 'done_app' and 'done_frame' which are located in the installation directory of xUltimate.
4. move folders 'done_app' and 'done_frame' folders to your sdcard, you can find these folders in the directory of xUltimate as described in the previous step.
5. Make sure the sdcard is not mounted to pc anymore
6. Open Windows Command Prompt and type the following commands.
adb shell
su
stop
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl12 /system
rm /system/app/*.odex
rm /system/framework/*.odex
busybox cp /sdcard/done_app/* /system/app/
busybox cp /sdcard/done_frame/* /system/framework/
chmod 644 /system/app/*
chmod 644 /system/framework/*
mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/stl12 /system
sync
reboot recovery
7. Now data and cache reset in the recovery menu...
8. reboot
If one of the commands, for example 'cp' is not found, try putting busybox in front of the command:
eg: busybox cp /sdcard/done_frame/* /system/framework/

both ways don't work. The program seems not to recognize this commands. Can i do it via root explorer?

cube7 said:
both ways don't work. The program seems not to recognize this commands. Can i do it via root explorer?
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Explain me the exact scenario.
This given method should work by all means. There is no escape.
Check the USB drivers.
Check the connectivity.
Then do it again.

drivers must be right 2 days ago i've flashed the phone. maybe it's adb, i copied it from one click folder.
i will copy the text from cmd as soon as i will be home.
btw, the process is ok till 6th point of the instruction. then it fails at cp command (busybox cp also).

cube7 said:
drivers must be right 2 days ago i've flashed the phone. maybe it's adb, i copied it from one click folder.
i will copy the text from cmd as soon as i will be home.
btw, the process is ok till 6th point of the instruction. then it fails at cp command (busybox cp also).
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Try booting linux on ur pc as sometimes adb doesnt work for me on windows but for linux users it worked perfectly
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New root metod for NEW version : Sprint US 7.7.1Q-6_SPR-125_ASA-14

This is a work metod for root your not unlocked phone !
I find a solution after update to last new version
Download this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143437
After download and share fail with samba windows or mac sharing, you need to mount from file manage > remote storage
After fix permission go to adb folder and type :
"adb shell"
"cd /mnt/rfs0"
"./su"
"cd /"
"ln -s /mnt /storage"
Next step go to console and type :
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next : Install apk package from phone , Reboot Phone and now your phone is rooted!
Update from Play Market SuperSu and go.
Best regards,
m.

micron said:
This is a work metod for root your not unlocked phone !
I find a solution after update to last new version
Download this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143437
After download and share fail with samba windows or mac sharing, you need to mount from file manage > remote storage
After fix permission go to adb folder and type :
"adb shell"
"cd /mnt/rfs0"
"./su"
"cd /"
"ln -s /mnt /storage"
Next step go to console and type :
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next : Install apk package from phone , Reboot Phone and now your phone is rooted!
Update from Play Market SuperSu and go.
Best regards,
m.
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lol if i saw this earlier i might not have unlocked my boot loader today. =) hope someone can try this

I gave this a try earlier today. I scoured through the forum to find that the new Ubuntu doesn't install ADB drivers by default, so you need to do this manually.
Anyway, I attempted to do it and got all the way to ./su. It then prompted me with the message "./su cannot execute - Permission denied". Obviously from there I can't link /mnt to /storage and I can't run pwn because it looks for the /storage folder.
If you have any suggestions how to get ./su running, let me know.

rykin said:
I gave this a try earlier today. I scoured through the forum to find that the new Ubuntu doesn't install ADB drivers by default, so you need to do this manually.
Anyway, I attempted to do it and got all the way to ./su. It then prompted me with the message "./su cannot execute - Permission denied". Obviously from there I can't link /mnt to /storage and I can't run pwn because it looks for the /storage folder.
If you have any suggestions how to get ./su running, let me know.
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This method works but not all intructions are here.
First, you need to change permissions of su:
chown root:root su
chmod 6755 su
then run adb shell and remount / filesystem ro rw:
mount -o rw,remount /
now you can create symbolic link and run the exploit.
You can also perform rooting manually (without creating symlink and running pwn):
remount /system partition to rw: mount -o rw,remount /system
and copy su to /system/xbin, make sure that it has correct permissions (rwsr-sr-x) and that's it.
Now you can remount partitions back to ro.
Install supersu or superuser (whatever makes you happy, just check if it works correctly, superuser didn't work for me, it didn't prompt about root permission for any app, it just gave it, no matter how configured it was), Then install busybox, if you need one.
And you're done.

YES! Glad I waited!
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ujoty said:
This method works but not all intructions are here.
First, you need to change permissions of su:
chown root:root su
chmod 6755 su
then run adb shell and remount / filesystem ro rw:
mount -o rw,remount /
now you can create symbolic link and run the exploit.
You can also perform rooting manually (without creating symlink and running pwn):
remount /system partition to rw: mount -o rw,remount /system
and copy su to /system/xbin, make sure that it has correct permissions (rwsr-sr-x) and that's it.
Now you can remount partitions back to ro.
Install supersu or superuser (whatever makes you happy, just check if it works correctly, superuser didn't work for me, it didn't prompt about root permission for any app, it just gave it, no matter how configured it was), Then install busybox, if you need one.
And you're done.
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Thank you. I just tried this and it worked. Confirmed with Root Checker. :>

micron said:
This is a work metod for root your not unlocked phone !
I find a solution after update to last new version
Download this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143437
After download and share fail with samba windows or mac sharing, you need to mount from file manage > remote storage
After fix permission go to adb folder and type :
"adb shell"
"cd /mnt/rfs0"
"./su"
"cd /"
"ln -s /mnt /storage"
Next step go to console and type :
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next : Install apk package from phone , Reboot Phone and now your phone is rooted!
Update from Play Market SuperSu and go.
Best regards,
m.
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Thanks, I think this is exactly what I am looking for per this thread. Unfortunately, I don't quite have the knowledge (yet) to completely understand what you mean. I've rooted several phones, but never had to use ADB before so am unfamiliar with it. Also, what do you mean by this: "After download and share fail with samba windows..."?

cscotti said:
Thanks, I think this is exactly what I am looking for per this thread. Unfortunately, I don't quite have the knowledge (yet) to completely understand what you mean. I've rooted several phones, but never had to use ADB before so am unfamiliar with it. Also, what do you mean by this: "After download and share fail with samba windows..."?
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By reading this link you will know hot to setup samba installation on a UBUNTU live cd. After doing that on your phone you should go to your FILE MANAGER --> remote storage and add the samba share to your phone. On the UBUNTU live cd, on your samba folder you should do this:
Code:
cd /path/to/share
wget http://vulnfactory.org/public/motoshare.tgz
tar xvf motoshare.tgz
sudo chown root:root pwn
sudo chmod 6755 pwn
After that you should put your phone in USB debugging mode and connect it to your PC. On your PC your should download the platform-tools folder of the Android SDK. The platform-tools folder contains adb (MAC) adb.exe (Windows) file. After you have adb, on your WIndows/MAC PC you should type:
Code:
./adb shell
cd /mnt/rfs0
./su
mount -o rw,remount /
cd /
ln -s /mnt /storage
exit (to exit the ADB shell)
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next you should copy eu.chainfire.supersu.apk on your phone storage and install it with file manager.
Reboot your device! Congratulations, your phone is rooted

desyncron said:
By reading this link you will know hot to setup samba installation on a UBUNTU live cd. After doing that on your phone you should go to your FILE MANAGER --> remote storage and add the samba share to your phone. On the UBUNTU live cd, on your samba folder you should do this:
Code:
cd /path/to/share
wget http://vulnfactory.org/public/motoshare.tgz
tar xvf motoshare.tgz
sudo chown root:root pwn
sudo chmod 6755 pwn
After that you should put your phone in USB debugging mode and connect it to your PC. On your PC your should download the platform-tools folder of the Android SDK. The platform-tools folder contains adb (MAC) adb.exe (Windows) file. After you have adb, on your WIndows/MAC PC you should type:
Code:
./adb shell
cd /mnt/rfs0
./su
mount -o rw,remount /
cd /
ln -s /mnt /storage
exit (to exit the ADB shell)
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next you should copy eu.chainfire.supersu.apk on your phone storage and install it with file manager.
Reboot your device! Congratulations, your phone is rooted
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Wow, thanks for this. I was considering trying to condense down the instructions myself before I did this, but you beat me to it, and did a better job than I would have, considering I'm a novice at this stuff.
So your method uses a linux boot for samba, but then the rest is done on windows. Question: could you do the adb stuff on Linux? Seemed like some of the posts in the atrix threads were doing it that way, and I was just curious. I have mint 14-64 bit on a couple of my machines, as well windows, and was thinking this would be an opportunity to learn it a little better.
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Hello,
and what if I have unlocked bootloader? Is there any other way to root this phone?

desyncron said:
By reading this link you will know hot to setup samba installation on a UBUNTU live cd. After doing that on your phone you should go to your FILE MANAGER --> remote storage and add the samba share to your phone. On the UBUNTU live cd, on your samba folder you should do this:
Code:
cd /path/to/share
wget http://vulnfactory.org/public/motoshare.tgz
tar xvf motoshare.tgz
sudo chown root:root pwn
sudo chmod 6755 pwn
After that you should put your phone in USB debugging mode and connect it to your PC. On your PC your should download the platform-tools folder of the Android SDK. The platform-tools folder contains adb (MAC) adb.exe (Windows) file. After you have adb, on your WIndows/MAC PC you should type:
Code:
./adb shell
cd /mnt/rfs0
./su
mount -o rw,remount /
cd /
ln -s /mnt /storage
exit (to exit the ADB shell)
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next you should copy eu.chainfire.supersu.apk on your phone storage and install it with file manager.
Reboot your device! Congratulations, your phone is rooted
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well that sounds a bit intimidating but thanks for spelling it out. I'll try to work up the nerve and make some time to give this a try.
Just curious, but why can't this be compressed into a one click batch file like before?

vangelm said:
Hello,
and what if I have unlocked bootloader? Is there any other way to root this phone?
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If your bootloader is unlocked, you can easily root. You don't need any exploits etc.
Install TWRP, it will automatically root the device. Or, install CWM and then install SuperSU afterwards, which will root the device.

arrrghhh said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can easily root. You don't need any exploits etc.
Install TWRP, it will automatically root the device. Or, install CWM and then install SuperSU afterwards, which will root the device.
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It works, thank you, have a nice day.

vangelm said:
It works, thank you, have a nice day.
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Can you share what you did? Instructions seem to say that I need to install GooManager? The summary of GooManager says I need root to use it. TIA.

micron said:
This is a work metod for root your not unlocked phone !
I find a solution after update to last new version
Download this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143437
After download and share fail with samba windows or mac sharing, you need to mount from file manage > remote storage
After fix permission go to adb folder and type :
"adb shell"
"cd /mnt/rfs0"
"./su"
"cd /"
"ln -s /mnt /storage"
Next step go to console and type :
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next : Install apk package from phone , Reboot Phone and now your phone is rooted!
Update from Play Market SuperSu and go.
Best regards,
m.
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**** I wish I saw this before i went to Motorola for my warranty voiding unlock code
---------- Post added at 05:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:50 PM ----------
arrrghhh said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can easily root. You don't need any exploits etc.
Install TWRP, it will automatically root the device. Or, install CWM and then install SuperSU afterwards, which will root the device.
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I like TWRP but CWM in my opinion is better (more supported).

amateurhack said:
Question: could you do the adb stuff on Linux? Seemed like some of the posts in the atrix threads were doing it that way, and I was just curious. I have mint 14-64 bit on a couple of my machines, as well windows, and was thinking this would be an opportunity to learn it a little better.
Sent from my XT897 using xda premium
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Yes. This can be done in Linux. I did it entirely with a LIVE USB. However, adb might not be installed by default (on mine it was not). To install it, do the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
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This will prevent you from running into errors when you start typing: adb shell

swintec said:
Can you share what you did? Instructions seem to say that I need to install GooManager? The summary of GooManager says I need root to use it. TIA.
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Either use GooManager or the fastboot flash method. I think you do need to be rooted in order for GooManager to get the permissions it requires to flash recovery... So in that case, the only way initially to flash might be fastboot flash... Sorry.
alexwoellhaf said:
I like TWRP but CWM in my opinion is better (more supported).
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Not even sure what this means. Any zip you can flash with CWM, you should be able to flash with TWRP. No?
They're both recoveries. One is touch-based, one isn't.

Having trouble with abd
Im running Ubuntu 12.04 full install (not live CD)
When I connect my phone, dmesg see the new device, and so does lsusb
dmesg
Code:
[ 290.617377] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 295.476023] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 295.611624] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[ 296.610626] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access motorola XT897 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 296.611152] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 296.613548] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
lsusb:
Code:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 22b8:2e36 Motorola PCS
However no matter what, when I run "adb devices", the phone does not show up.
51-android.rules
Code:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="22b8", MODE="0666"
This is what I get with adb
Code:
[email protected]:/tmp/share# adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
[email protected]:/tmp/share#
What else can I do???

desyncron said:
By reading this link you will know hot to setup samba installation on a UBUNTU live cd. After doing that on your phone you should go to your FILE MANAGER --> remote storage and add the samba share to your phone. On the UBUNTU live cd, on your samba folder you should do this:
Code:
cd /path/to/share
wget http://vulnfactory.org/public/motoshare.tgz
tar xvf motoshare.tgz
sudo chown root:root pwn
sudo chmod 6755 pwn
After that you should put your phone in USB debugging mode and connect it to your PC. On your PC your should download the platform-tools folder of the Android SDK. The platform-tools folder contains adb (MAC) adb.exe (Windows) file. After you have adb, on your WIndows/MAC PC you should type:
Code:
./adb shell
cd /mnt/rfs0
./su
mount -o rw,remount /
cd /
ln -s /mnt /storage
exit (to exit the ADB shell)
adb kill-server
adb shell /storage/rfs0/pwn
Next you should copy eu.chainfire.supersu.apk on your phone storage and install it with file manager.
Reboot your device! Congratulations, your phone is rooted
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I am trying to run through these steps. For starters, when I enter the 'adp shell' I do not have a /mnt/rfs0 directory. The shared samba directory actually mounts at /storage/rfs0. No biggie. I go to that directory to run ./su. The su command runs, and I can see a pop up notification on my phone indicating the adb shell has been granted admin rights. The problem is that the ./su command never returns. As a matter of fact, if I just left it sit there, I get the admin rights pop up notification on my phone about once per minute so it seems like the su command is in some loop.
At this point I am stuck. I cant remount my file system as read/write without SU. I can run the ./su command in a different process, either in another adb shell or with the ./su& command but that does me no good as I cant execute any root commands in that same process.
Is there something that needs to change with the su command for the newer version my phone is running? I am running 9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-5.
Thanks.

Use 'motochopper', search for it on xda then root is just one click away
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