Hope this is the right place to post this question. I'm so curious my cat has one life left.
How would you root a droid from scratch?
What's the process?
I realize the process would fill volumes, so all i'm looking for is some pointers on where I can find this info.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=670
Assuming you mean the moto droid 1
If not just search the device and all that info is in the development section, read the first few posts or "stickies" to learn more
Hope this helps
It did help and thanks.
Please correct me where this is wrong but it seems that:
Rooting is simply the process of granting yourself superuser privileges on the phone.
If that's correct, then what, on a stock phone, is preventing me from getting root access to the phone?
How do I find whatever it is that's blocking root access?
How do I change the 'blocker' to allow root access?
A specific example on the process would be very informative.
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hi all i found out how to enable root permissions
but what is superuser request for.
also can i upgrade my firmware from 1.6 to the newest version when my phone is rooted
I will reply to this... but for future reference it says no noobs on the forums desc. That would include questions like this that you can easily find on google. Superuser privileges allow you to do things that an unrooted phone will not. Firmware roms are easily up-datable, there's even an app for that (not intentional iPod reference) if you cannot find one online for your phone.
thanks koyhoy reason for asking was that i couldnt find decent descripton of super user request but knowing this i can continue rooting my phone.
Hi all,
First post here, be gentle.
I am a linux user (pretty noob but learning) and I'm a bit confused about what I've been reading on rooting android. I'm looking at getting a Droid X and I'm just trying to understand things before I dive in (already running 1.6 as a VM to play with it).
As far as I can tell--my bash skills not being quite good enough to completely understand everything in the rooting wikis--the methods employed to gain root access to a phone (from: wiki link) use an external OS to push image files onto the phone, then remove the native rights management files (mid.txt?) and replace them with something else in the pushed files. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, cause I probably am)
When completed, this presumably allows you to run su and changes the root password or removes it (though I have no idea how that would work). If this is the case, and I root my phone does this mean that my default login to new sessions will be as root, or will I have to run su to gain privileges? And if I have to run su, what's the password?
One of the first things I learned when getting into linux was that root can be dangerous--you can kill your computer etc.--so, what does this mean for my phone? Can I just login as an admin and then sudo for the apps that need it? (Yes, I realize that I would have to install sudo and edit the list of sudoers etc.) Is it not dangerous to run as root or it it dangerous but easily ignored?
I'm just curious about this because it seems funny to me that a lot of joe shmos who have no idea what they're unleashing by running as root might suddenly hear that it's a great idea to go into a terminal and run
Code:
#rm -rf /
and I have this desperate hope that it's not as simple as that and there is some kind of rights management still in effect once a phone is "rooted." If not, and rooting a phone really does log you in as root for every session then it's much more dangerous than I had thought.
Thanks,
Bob
Is there really no one here who can answer this?
My phone is coming on Wednesday and I'd love some help with this and I can't believe that one of the brilliant people here can't answer this.
Sorry nobody replied yet. When you root there is usually a one click root app that does everything for you. After you are rooted you can install superuser from the market and it lets you choose what apps are allowed to have root access. You can search the droid forums for more info since I have an epic. If this helped please hit the thanks button below
Sent from my Epic that craves frozen yogurt
This my be a stupid question but i'm looking for a straight answer. What does rooting do? and why do i want to!
The other thread is a bit confusing
May be someone can start a wifi only and stop mixing the to
If you don't know about it then you probably don't need to do it. Rooting allows access into the areas that the normal user doesn't need access to. With root, you can delete any app or file on the xoom which again if you don't know what your doing you can brick your device. You do need root access if you want to load a custom rom. There is a thread that shows how to root with one click.
rooting will allow you to do things not normally allowed. its really up to you. for example if you root you can use an app to take screenshots, etc
First off, I want to apologize if I've put this in the wrong place or if something is not in accordance to the rules for posting. I am new to this website and have a bugger of a problem. I would like to edit something in my galaxy S5's SM-G900A settings.db file, but understand being rooted is required to do this. I decided I wanted to too late, and now lollipop and my phone model are the reason that there is not any sort of root for my phone at the moment. I am not willing to backup, downgrade, root, edit, then use a special thing to update to lollipop keep root access. I have read of ADB and JVM and was wondering if anyone could tell me of any way I could gain access to and edit my phones settings.db file on lollipop without rooting, I know JVM and ADB may be viable but I know nothing of how to. Any other methods or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading this!
I am not sure if it has been asked before, but I want to understand the root process, not a specific phone root. I want to understand how it works. Can someone point me to a primer or any sites that at least discuss the generalities of root? Thanks in advance
hongning said:
I am not sure if it has been asked before, but I want to understand the root process, not a specific phone root. I want to understand how it works. Can someone point me to a primer or any sites that at least discuss the generalities of root? Thanks in advance
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Maybe this post will help
The general approach is taking advantage of bugs in the android OS
The process works something like this
User crafts some special data that contains a "payload" (the script/executable that we want to run)
User runs a system process that has root privileges and gets it to open the special data
The bug causes the system process to get confused by the data, and ends up running the embedded script
The embedded script runs with the same privileges as the system process, and thus can stuff that normal users aren't allowed to do (e.g. installs the SU app)
I can't post any outside links in this forum area but if you google for how root works you'll get heaps of good results.