so i recently used superoneclick to root my phone. The program said my phone is rooted yet when my kernels etc are the same as stock. I have superuser on my phone but how do i change the kernels etc so that i can use non market apps like wireless tether?
Kernels can be changed with new ROMS. Rooting means you get superuser permission on the terminals so things can be changed.
i dont understand what you asking about non market apps? But you can use apps that required root.
Hope i helped.
mithusingh32 said:
Kernels can be changed with new ROMS. Rooting means you get superuser permission on the terminals so things can be changed.
i dont understand what you asking about non market apps? But you can use apps that required root.
Hope i helped.
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thanks, sorry let me clarify.
I downloaded wireless tether and titanium backup to remove sprint ID. The issue is when i try to run either, they dont work. Wireless says the kernel is the issue. What else should I do to be able to use these apps?
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atros1 said:
thanks, sorry let me clarify.
I downloaded wireless tether and titanium backup to remove sprint ID. The issue is when i try to run either, they dont work. Wireless says the kernel is the issue. What else should I do to be able to use these apps?
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Try barnacle(it's in the market) for wifi tether and you need to download and install busybox in order to use titanium backup, and be careful what you remove because you could brick your phone...
joenathane said:
Try barnacle(it's in the market) for wifi tether and you need to download and install busybox in order to use titanium backup, and be careful what you remove because you could brick your phone...
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Thank you for the barnacle thing, i havn't removed anything im having issues using anything that requires root access, just unrooted my phone.
Can anyone give me a step by step to rooting it? I simply want to remove sprint ID and have my phone run faster. Cant think of any apps i would really need.
Download z4root here http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=446145&d=1290341328 transfer it to your sdcard and use a file manager to open it(if you don't have one download astro) install and run it, choose permanent root, and let it do it's thing...
did that, still isnt working, thank you though.
it appears anytime i try to run an app it says something along the lines of not having root access, even though it is rooted
Weird. Hmmmm. I meant i dont know much about your phone. I know that when my root got effed, i just did a factory reset and re-rooted and it worked.
Sorry couldnt help
have you tried this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkOp2Q2AM4 ?
mithusingh32 said:
Weird. Hmmmm. I meant i dont know much about your phone. I know that when my root got effed, i just did a factory reset and re-rooted and it worked.
Sorry couldnt help
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thanks for trying either way
joenathane said:
have you tried this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkOp2Q2AM4 ?
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going to try this now, just didnt want to since it seems a bit more complicated and im really weak when it comes to linux
You could try installing Rom Manager from the market. If it works you will be able to flash a custom recovery, backup your device and flash a custom ROM.
Give it a go and let us know if it works.
cool so i followed the video, then it wasnt rooted, so i used z4root apparently it took two things to fully root my phone. Not sure why, some sort of sprint failsafe?
Although i forgot to set a backup to sprint features, so im a bit screwed down the road.
You prolly can find a sprint ROM somewhere. Or you could do a factory reset, not sure of that will bring back the sprint apps. Dont they have the sprint apps on the Android market?
atros1 said:
cool so i followed the video, then it wasnt rooted, so i used z4root apparently it took two things to fully root my phone. Not sure why, some sort of sprint failsafe?
Although i forgot to set a backup to sprint features, so im a bit screwed down the road.
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That would be my video. AND no, you are NOT rooted if you flashed that tar. All that tar does, is make your phone STOCK with custom recovery, to ensure a nice clean platform to work with. You would hold down volume down, voice button, and power. let go when you see samsung, and then apply an update.zip for the kernel. i do have a video on how to root the Android 2.2.2 and it's a proper root video. Sorry for the confusion.
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still dont understand how to root mt3g or any of the lingo used in these forums? why do ya have to root phone just to change themes
Start here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=579328
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529062
Lots of reading here, you might need to take your Ritalin.
can i always go back to factory settings if i decide to root phone and doesnt work and will i have to redownload all apps i already have
nurk said:
can i always go back to factory settings if i decide to root phone and doesnt work and will i have to redownload all apps i already have
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nearly all apps work without root
okay so i rooted my captivate installed titanium backup and deleted a bunch of the bloatware but somewhere in the process i deleted a file that goes along with the market i can still use the market however when i try to download and install apps it gives me an error message and they just constantly say downloading i tried using odin and have tried factory resetting the phone and nothing is working can anyone help me fix my phone?
jedens said:
okay so i rooted my captivate installed titanium backup and deleted a bunch of the bloatware but somewhere in the process i deleted a file that goes along with the market i can still use the market however when i try to download and install apps it gives me an error message and they just constantly say downloading i tried using odin and have tried factory resetting the phone and nothing is working can anyone help me fix my phone?
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Install the drivers from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
try odin again
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i messed with odin for like 3 hours and it didnt do me any good so i ran a program to unroot my device and i restored the factory data and that didnt help me a bit i guess i'm just going to root it again is there any way possible that i could just reinstall the market.apk file? i downloaded one but it wont let me install it on my phone something about it my phone not being allowed to do it or are there any captivate roms that are available i dont even care if they give me all the bloatware back or is the i9000 rom usable on the captivate?
jedens said:
i messed with odin for like 3 hours and it didnt do me any good so i ran a program to unroot my device and i restored the factory data and that didnt help me a bit i guess i'm just going to root it again is there any way possible that i could just reinstall the market.apk file? i downloaded one but it wont let me install it on my phone something about it my phone not being allowed to do it or are there any captivate roms that are available i dont even care if they give me all the bloatware back or is the i9000 rom usable on the captivate?
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Did you use the Odin one-click download to re-install the Original OS? There is no file to load - just one big 300MB Odin file.
If you can't get this done, then I doubt you will be able to put the i9000 firmware on - it requires you to use Odin and is more complicated.
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i messed with odin for like 3 hours and it didnt do me any good so i ran a program to unroot my device and i restored the factory data and that didnt help me a bit i guess i'm just going to root it again is there any way possible that i could just reinstall the market.apk file? i downloaded one but it wont let me install it on my phone something about it my phone not being allowed to do it or are there any captivate roms that are available i dont even care if they give me all the bloatware back or is the i9000 rom usable on the captivate?
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How did you try to install the market.apk? Am guessing it would have to be sideloaded as I doubt it's a standard market app, and of course AT&T cripples the ability to load non-market apps natively.
alphadog00 said:
Did you use the Odin one-click download to re-install the Original OS? There is no file to load - just one big 300MB Odin file.
If you can't get this done, then I doubt you will be able to put the i9000 firmware on - it requires you to use Odin and is more complicated.
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yes i used the one click downloader and i follow all the directions it has on the thread but when i go through the process my phone doesnt show up and i've tried it may different ways and when it does show up nothing has worked it always goes to file analysis then after a few seconds it says fail
could you possibly tell me or show me a walk through of how you use it because i may be doing something wrong that the odin thread isn't telling me
plus do you use the .exe .rar or .zip? not that i think it would matter
startngate said:
How did you try to install the market.apk? Am guessing it would have to be sideloaded as I doubt it's a standard market app, and of course AT&T cripples the ability to load non-market apps natively.
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i found a market.apk file searching online and put it on my sd card and tried to run it from there because thats what i used to do with my pure and .cab files so i figured i would give it a shot on the captivate
have a question for a rooted g2x i want to take off apps that are not needed and already installed. but im afraid to take off apps and dont know what to take off any help??? what not to delete or take off?? thank you just give me a list what i can uninstall
The last people recommended that you search for a reason...This has been covered a few times.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059421
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050534&highlight=data+throttling
Oh, when you uninstall some of the t-mobile apps, you'll get an endless fc message about something, just reboot.
can i uninstall t mobile tv??? google talk?? and browser?
nystatus23 said:
can i uninstall t mobile tv??? google talk?? and browser?
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Yes, yes, and yes.
thank you very much.. one other question i dont have recovery on so i will be fine???
nystatus23 said:
can i uninstall t mobile tv??? google talk?? and browser?
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you do plan on installing an alternate browser,correct?
yes i got dolphin hd. so i will be fine deleting those apps without the recovery right??
I'm certainly not the final authority on this. But my understanding is that it is better to use Titanium backup to "freeze" the unwanted apps. They then are put somewhere else and can't be seen in the app drawer.Out of site out of mind
If you freeze unwanted apps, you can always "thaw" them
if you find that you deleted the wrong thing or if you need the apps back to unroot the phone and return it.
nystatus23 said:
yes i got dolphin hd. so i will be fine deleting those apps without the recovery right??
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Yeah, you'll be fine. But if you do remove something that screws up your system you will have to do a system reset and then start over. Why not install a recovery image via NVflash? It's really easy now that there is a 1-click method. It can also restore the stock recovery if you are worried about having to return your phone. Would make life way easier for you. But I've uninstalled all the t-mobile crap, the stock browser (I use mozilla), launcher2 (I use Launcher Pro), and the LG logmein crap. Phone is running just fine.
wewoapsiak said:
Yeah, you'll be fine. But if you do remove something that screws up your system you will have to do a system reset and then start over. Why not install a recovery image via NVflash? It's really easy now that there is a 1-click method. It can also restore the stock recovery if you are worried about having to return your phone. Would make life way easier for you. But I've uninstalled all the t-mobile crap, the stock browser (I use mozilla), launcher2 (I use Launcher Pro), and the LG logmein crap. Phone is running just fine.
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I want to keep close to stock as possible.
If I root, use Titanium Backup or Root Uninstaller to remove bloatware and power off G2x, press Vol/Down + Power to do factory reset will that load factory bloatware back on or does that just reset settings to factory?
wewoapsiak said:
Yeah, you'll be fine. But if you do remove something that screws up your system you will have to do a system reset and then start over. Why not install a recovery image via NVflash? It's really easy now that there is a 1-click method. It can also restore the stock recovery if you are worried about having to return your phone. Would make life way easier for you. But I've uninstalled all the t-mobile crap, the stock browser (I use mozilla), launcher2 (I use Launcher Pro), and the LG logmein crap. Phone is running just fine.
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yea man thxs i was afraid to do the recovery cause of the tegra 2 new **** even tho im use to do root and recovery on recent devices i had like samsung galaxy s 4g and other devices, but i finally did the recovery with no problem thank god im good now just waitting for my 32gb micro sd in the mail **** is flying now thxs everyone
Ok so one day my phone is all nice and dandy, rooted as a tree, and then I go to Advence Freeze an app, and Rom Toolbox Pro tells me I no longer have root access. So I go into Titanium backup and it says the same thing. For total verification, I go to Terminal Emulator, and the "su" command gives me a "not granted" response. So while I had root yesterday, for some reason I don't have it today. The thing I'm worried about most is that I did absolutely nothing in the meantime. The phone hadn't restarted in 3 days so that wasn't it. And all I did before it unrooted itself iis use the Inkpad Notepad app, and the Boat Browser app. I didn't touch a single thing that could possibly mess something up. Root hasn't always been very "observable" on my phone. After about a week after rooting it, Superuser stopped asking me if I wanted to allow or deny new apps. But all my root apps still worked. I run no special rom, just stock 4.1.2. I have SafeStrap Bootloader installed for backups as well. I downloaded Motochopper to try to reroot my phone just a few minutes ago and the exploit ran flawlessly. No errors whatsoever. When it booted up, still no root access. To be more specific, Voodoo OTA Root Keeper tells me the device is rooted, but without root access. I also have a root backup made with that program. Can someone please tell me how to fix this because the thought of a "normal" phone is making me depressed :crying:.
Try updating your SU and see if that does anything.
RikRong said:
Try updating your SU and see if that does anything.
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The only way I could think of doing that is from the superuser app (if you mean update the binaries) and I already tried. It fails at "gettingroot access".
miapuffia said:
The only way I could think of doing that is from the superuser app (if you mean update the binaries) and I already tried. It fails at "gettingroot access".
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Yeah, that's what I meant. Hmmm...
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Yeah, that's what I meant. Hmmm...
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Perhaps I could backup my data using SafeStrap TWRP, download stock rooted 4.3 (which I wanted since it came out), install it to rom slot 2 using SafeStrap, and then restore my data! Where's my nobel prize? lol Would that work?
miapuffia said:
Perhaps I could backup my data using SafeStrap TWRP, download stock rooted 4.3 (which I wanted since it came out), install it to rom slot 2 using SafeStrap, and then restore my data! Where's my nobel prize? lol Would that work?
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There is no stock 4.3 ROM for us. The highest stock version would be 4.1.2. You can get CM10.2 that is vanilla AOSP, but I don't know if it would boot on SS.
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There is no stock 4.3 ROM for us. The highest stock version would be 4.1.2. You can get CM10.2 that is vanilla AOSP, but I don't know if it would boot on SS.
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I see. That's why my rooted 4.3 search came up.blank. I don't mind trying CM. I tried to SS install it previously but it failed (kinda). But now that I think about it I definitely installed the wrong version. As long as I can restore my data to CM I don't mind trying it. Can I get 4.1.2, root it, and then restore data? But wait, I know my bro has 4.3 rooted he used temp unroot -> update -> restore root. Can I do that? In case you didn't notice I'm new to this :/
Hello everyone,
I rooted my Razr HD a while ago, don't remember why. Anyway, I ended up getting a new phone and switching with a friend. And now I need to unroot it so my Mom can use it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I know there was an automated tool somewhere but I can't locate it.
Btw, it's rooted with Safestrap. I don't know if that changes anything.
I suggest u to use universal unroot utility by MattGroff and u can uninstall safestrap normally
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I would uninstall SS prior to un-rooting because you'll still need to get into the app to uninstall the recovery. It might not let you in if you don't have root access.
RikRong said:
I would uninstall SS prior to un-rooting because you'll still need to get into the app to uninstall the recovery. It might not let you in if you don't have root access.
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Can you give me like a little bit more detail ? I know Android but I know nothing about the back end of it.
dontsayhate said:
Can you give me like a little bit more detail ? I know Android but I know nothing about the back end of it.
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If you go into the actual SS app on your phone, you can uninstall recovery. Do this, prior to deleting the app. If you delete the app first, you'll never be able to delete the installed SS recovery because you need the app to do it. Uninstall recovery through the app, then delete the app, and then delete all the SS folders and backups on your internal to get you some memory space back. As for the root access thing, I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you'll be able to open the SS app if you don't still have root access. It's a root access app but I'm not sure how that would work.
Well it looks like the phone has been set to factory..I turned it on just now, and I think my mom or dad may have done it. It works fine. But there is no SU or SS apps on the phone, I just checked. But when I boot the phone, I still get the bootloader unlocked message. Which means its something in the SD card correct? Any idea how to clean that up?
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Well it looks like the phone has been set to factory..I turned it on just now, and I think my mom or dad may have done it. It works fine. But there is no SU or SS apps on the phone, I just checked. But when I boot the phone, I still get the bootloader unlocked message. Which means its something in the SD card correct? Any idea how to clean that up?
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If your BL is unlocked, there's no way to relock it. However, I know there are some flashable boot logos running around somewhere in this forum. Just find one and flash it in recovery.
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If your BL is unlocked, there's no way to relock it. However, I know there are some flashable boot logos running around somewhere in this forum. Just find one and flash it in recovery.
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I want to clean the SD card out too though. The message is whatever. Can I do that without screwing up the phone?
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I want to clean the SD card out too though. The message is whatever. Can I do that without screwing up the phone?
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you can go to settings/storage and erase the sd card but that wont get rid of the warning. also, if it was rooted, it still is even though the su app may have been removed.