Hello. I'm new here and finally have an Android (a Samsung Fascinate.) I installed Z4Root yesterday, and managed to root my phone. It worked great! Later in the night I downloaded the new update for the Fascinate, and even after that the phone was still rooted.
This morning, though, the phone was no longer rooted. None of the programs I could use hours before like Titanium Backup said I did not have root access. Worse still, I could not get Z4 to work properly. It gave me the Temporary, Full, and Unroot options. Each option seemed to work fine when I tried to use them, but once it "finished" and went back to the home screen, still not rooted, and eventually caused Z4 to crash, and eventually I had to reboot the phone as well.
Any ideas? Sorry, I'm new to all of this! Thanks!
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Howdy! So my Nexy has been having some issues lately and I was going to have it replaced, but first, I had to unroot it. I used universal androot to do the dirty deed because of its supposed ease. After I reverted back to a stock rom, I unrooted, and restarted the phone. After powering up I got notification of OTA update 2.2.1, and stupidly I think "hey, I'm sending it back anyway", and so I gave the go ahead.
When I restarted the phone, I noticed that superuser was still in the tray. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to use universal androot (even tried z4) to gain root access without getting an error. Terminal emulator says I don't have access when I command "SU".
Is there anything I can do to remove superuser? I really hope so.. or else I'm pretty screwed.
How can I bring my Droid X2 from Verizon back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I rooted my phone using MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe "pete's motorolla tools"
I removed bookmarks and I removed two or three verizon stock apk like Blockbuster and Slacker. Also allowed super user permission for apps like barnicle wifi tether and a screenshot program. I have done nothing else.
I recently got the request to upgrade to 1.3.380.MB870.Verizon.en.US but I can not upgrade.
Attempt #1
I factory reset the hard way. Hold power plus volume down... The phone boots back up and I still have Superuser icon showing but everything else is different. I realized at that time I would have to unroot but I could not remember which program I used to root my phone.
Attempt #2
I ended up installing gingerbreak and used the unroot uption on that program to unroot my phone. It said successful. I tried to install the update and it failed. I factory reset the phone and it failed. IDK why but I attempted to root the phone again using gingerbreak after that... but gingerbreak would not root my phone again, it just sat there doing nothing for an hour and 30 minutes.
Attempt #2
I searched more and found the program I originally used. I loaded it up and clicked the unroot option. It unrooted my phone sucessfully. I attempted to upgrade and it failed again!
Attempt #3
I ran the temporary root that came with MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe . Thinking maybe gingerbreak messed up some files and I needed to restore them for the unroot to work properly. The temporary root was not what I had used the first time so I'm thinking maybe I should have done the permanant root... I then unrooted the phone again. After that, I factory reset again and attempted to upgrade the phone. Still fails.
I havn't removed or modified any sytem folders. I simply deleted bookmarks and Blockbuster and other useless stock apps. I've unrooted and factory reset but blockbuster and the stock applications never come back...
I can't upgrade my phone and I need some help. I can't remember what came with the phone by default so IDK how to manually set it back. Please, how can I resolve this? How can I bring my phone back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I want that ugrade.
Notherwise fully aware if we have a forum for your device but if we do....head in over to that place and look fir the "stock ROM" for your device.
First thing is first....you need ti remove root...not familiar with device so don't know is stock Rom will restore root.
Another option is to go to the first thread on this forum and ask Samuel.....he might be able to help.
Cheers and good luck mate
I don't want to restore the root. Honestly I never really used the super user features for anything other than screenshots.
I have no roms or anything. This is just 2.3.3 with the root enabled. I did lurk around and find a link to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf but I'm not sure if that is what I need to do? Will an SBF restore my phone and applications so I can upgrade again?
Update to my previous post. I searched around like I should have in the first place.
I used RSDLite 5.3 to flash my phone to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf. Which was android 2.2.2
I was then able to update the phone to version 2.3.3 and then finally 2.3.4 official OSA over wifi.
I've recently bought a LG Optimus Black aka P-970, rooted and themed the hell out of it. For rooting, i used GingerBreak. However, yesterday i tried to install a rather complex UOT Kitchen theme file, and got my phone stuck in a bootloop. Since LG cleverly enough don't offer a way to boot into recovery mode, i had no other option than to run the LG Recovery software from my computer to restore the default settings.
Now, after that procedure, all stock apps are back, but none of the 3rd party apps was gone either. However, the root access was gone, and if i try to run GingerBreak now, it apparently starts doing its thing, but nothing happens. If i let it go until the screen turns off, and then unlock it again, GingerBreak is closed as if it was never started.
I don't know why, but i suspect that there is some cache somewhere which ruins my funday. I did uninstall GingerBreak and Superuser, then reinstalled GingerBreak, but nothing changed...
Similar for me. Any advice?
Not yet. I found out that the reason was because the update process upgraded to V10E, and that version is not supported by GingerBreak. I know it is possible to root it, i've seen guides, but i haven't tried much yet. V20R is supposed to be released today with GingerBread for EU users with V10E, so i don't put any effort to it atm...
I've dug around here for about 20 minutes and don't see any successful root for the Moto G XT-1028 (Android 4.4.4). I found a way to ROOT it! The particular Moto G XT-1028 I had could not be rooted by any method I tried (that included about everything) until a couple days ago I found a version of the Kingroot App and it rooted SUCCESSFULLY! As much as I'm not a fan of Kingroot and similar root apps you can't knock it if it is the only way that works. The Kingroot that worked is version V4.5.0.803. Older versions I had tried did not work. I'll attach it here. This is really a sweet little phone and glad it finally has root. :good:
droidzer1 said:
I've dug around here for about 20 minutes and don't see any successful root for the Moto G XT-1028. I found a way to ROOT it! The particular Moto G XT-1028 I had could not be rooted by any method I tried (that included about everything) until a couple days ago I found a version of the Kingroot App and it rooted SUCCESSFULLY! As much as I'm not a fan of Kingroot and similar root apps you can't knock it if it is the only way that works. The Kingroot that worked is version V4.5.0.803. Older versions I had tried did not work. I'll attach it here. This is really a sweet little phone and glad it finally has root. :good:
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Is this for 4.4.4?
I checked for Root initially by using ROM Toolbox which will warn you if you don't have root. It will not "Freeze" and App unless it has root so I froze an App and it worked. I'll post some screen captures here in a while showing the exact build and proof of Root.
Yes it is 4.4.4 I have on this phone.
Screen cap of my exact build. Also a screen cap after Kingroot success - the actual 'Success' screen only flashed for a second and then the screen below shows root access. Weird the second screenshot keeps coming up a Zero byte file - doesn't seem to save. Working on that....
More info: This version of Kingroot seems to have it's own root and you cannot install SuperSU (not so far anyway - I haven't tried everything yet). But it does allow root access for sure. However based on what I have found so far if you reboot you may lose root. But it is a very quick and simple process to re-root. Just run the App - wait a few seconds it you have ROOT. It is also similar in how it works like SuperSU in that it asks you to Allow or Deny root access when an App or function requests root access.
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Screen cap of my exact build. Also a screen cap after Kingroot success - the actual 'Success' screen only flashed for a second and then the screen below shows root access. Weird the second screenshot keeps coming up a Zero byte file - doesn't seem to save. Working on that....
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This is awesome!!
T10NAZ said:
This is awesome!!
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I had some trouble getting screen caps as the built in OS (power button + vol down) didn't work but installed this screenshot app that shows a couple from Kingroot screens in attached pics:
Here's one from Galaxy tools ( Yes I know it's not a Galaxy but it still works on the Moto G and it shows the details like it being an XT-1028 and states it has ROOT access right on the same screen.
This has been posted about many times, especially by me. This root is temporary. And it becomes extremely unstable after a while and your phone starts to crash and you're forced to reboot, losing root. Sorry to rain on your parade, but it doesn't exactly work still
Teet1 said:
This has been posted about many times, especially by me. This root is temporary. And it becomes extremely unstable after a while and your phone starts to crash and you're forced to reboot, losing root. Sorry to rain on your parade, but it doesn't exactly work still
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I do see that it doesn't hold root if you reboot but I see it as stable about half the time now that I've played with it a bit. Sometimes apps start to crash but upon reboot and re-root sometimes it is totally stable. Apps that I have frozen when rooted stay frozen. I'm also looking at it's sister app 'Purify' which was downloaded from within Kingroot as 'Kingmaster'. It says it can keep root. I'm working on testing that. Can you give me a link to other discussions on this? This is a version of Kingroot that just came out a few days ago. In doing a search I do not get any hits here on this version of Kingroot
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I do see that it doesn't hold root if you reboot but I see it as stable about half the time now that I've played with it a bit. Sometimes apps start to crash but upon reboot and re-root sometimes it is totally stable. Apps that I have frozen when rooted stay frozen. I'm also looking at it's sister app 'Purify' which was downloaded from within Kingroot as 'Kingmaster'. It says it can keep root. I'm working on testing that. Can you give me a link to other discussions on this? This is a version of Kingroot that just came out a few days ago. In doing a search I do not get any hits here on this version of Kingroot
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Look at my threads and posts in my profile. I tested the new one. It's a root, maybe more stable. But what we all want is perm root which we haven't accomplished yet. I have high hopes future versions of kingroot give full perm stable root
Finally caught this one:
After playing with this a couple days I admit it is sometimes stable and sometimes not. I believe Kingroot tries a lot of different options to root a phone as it gets the methods online during rooting and I believe it does not always use the same method for a particular phone. So sometime it works better than other times and it has even failed to root at all a few times. It was stable for a 12 hour test but some things will quickly destabilize it - like trying to install Busybox. At best you can get root access to fiddle with some things like making a custom boot screen etc. Any reboot will remove root and phone will be stable again but I did notice Kingroot as an app is running and I normally will stop it - no need for it if you aren't running in root mode.
I've been using kingroot as well, even before the .803 release (it was like .7xx i think when it first worked for me, about 1-2 months ago)
For me, it never fails to root. However the root destabilizes after approximately 5-15 minutes every time. Its literally just enough time to run titanium backup, or some other important thing before it starts going to crap and needs a reboot.
Still its a step in the right direction. I absolutely hate the pre-installed VZW bloat: Navigator, sync, NFL.
I'd be satisfied with a locked bootloader if i could just have perm-root. However temp-root is fine for now.
Yeeeeessss this jus made my weekend. Thanks for the update 4.4.4 rooted. Well temp root but better than nothing)))))
Need some answers/help...
I was stock, rooted on 8.0....saw a pop-up box yesterday about OTA, didn't think much about since I thought being rooted wouldn't allow the OTA. Have seen the occasional pop-up over maybe the last couple weeks, but I don't normally restart my phone unless it starts to lag or freeze up/run slow. A restart usually fixed that. Was perfectly happy staying on 8.0. I did a shutdown on my phone this evening, and when I restarted it, bam, I'm unrooted on 10 now, specifically, QP1A.190711.020
The phone was bought from Google, unlocked in Oct 2017. I immediately unlocked bootloader and rooted at that time and have been running stock 8.0 since. TWRP and Magisk were used following instructions from the thread here on the forum.
No data was lost after the restart today and 10 seems to be running ok. I did download some data and pictures through my USB-c onto a flashdrive and it did seem to drain my battery FAST while doing it.
What I'd like to know now is how to get root back. I wouldn't mind staying on 10, but if I re-root, will another OTA break my root again? I haven't tried to do a shutdown and a restart again to see what would happen because I'm afraid my phone will brick.
I'm kind of a noob at this, and I don't always understand when you all get technical, but I can follow step-by-step instructions.
First off, how did an OTA actually get through, update and unroot my phone?
And second, can someone point me to step-by-step instructions to re-root my phone on 10, and how do I keep it from happening again?
Thanks for looking and I'd be very appreciative if someone could help me out.
Thank you.
Jim
same here
Same here.
I've got a retail (NON-Verizon) rooted, stock OG Pixel with 8.1 and I've been ignoring the nag to update to 10.
My wife has a retail (NON-Verizon) Pixel 2 that was also stock, rooted 8.1 except she just took the update and asked me about it later.
Both were done with TWRP and Magisk, albeit differing versions.
She's now unrooted at QP1A.191005.007.A1
TWRP v3.2.1-0-walleye is installed.
EDIT: TWRP seems to have been nuked by the OTA upgrade.
I just tried to reboot into TWRP recovery and it's gone.
Magisk Manager app version 5.4.0 (57) + "Latest Magisk Version: v16.0" (I'm pretty sure I rooted via v14.5(1456) though) are present.
"Update Magisk Manager" is nagging about updating /installing MagiskManager-v5.8.2
Root Checker Basic v6.4.6 is also installed.
I'm scared to death to update Magisk or attempt root without some guidance from you fine folks here.
Until then, I'll start having her backup everything she wants to keep in case things go sideways.
I didn't think I was the only one this happened to.
Ok...noticed another issue.
I had Titanium Backup Pro installed. I had several apps frozen before the forced upgrade to 10. Guess what? Those apps are listed as disabled in the app list with no button for re-enabling them. Titanium Backup Pro no longer works because I lost root with the forced update to 10, so I can't unfreeze with Titanium Backup.
Is there any way to unfreeze those apps without re-rooting? Not too sure I even want to attempt to root again.
Also, I haven't shutdown or restarted since the forced update. S3NTYN3L, so you're saying you didn't have any issues restarting/rebooting? Other than TWRP being gone, no other issues?
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S3NTYN3L, so you're saying you didn't have any issues restarting/rebooting? Other than TWRP being gone, no other issues?
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Correct.
As for "other issues", none that I, or she, have noticed.
Still breathlessly waiting to hear about how I go about re-rooting without data loss.