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NOTE: This is a work in progress. While I have completed this guide myself SEVERAL times to ensure accuracy, It is possible that typos or errors in understanding exist. Please use at your own risk, and expect NOTHING from me. I will do my best to update this guide and improve the formatting as I find time. Feel free to leave feedback!
I cannot stress this enough: always have backups of any important information. While we may not be able to do full image-based backups until after root, you can still make sure we aren't deleting needed data. While yes, Google should hold your most important data and allow you to sync at any time, what would you do if Google went down? And I've even had trouble using the "Offline" function for some of the Apps. Therefore, Make a copy of everything on your SD card and read this excellent guide from Lifehacker about how to backup Google Apps data: Lifehacker
You will need an SD card. I recommend AT LEAST an 8GB Class 4. Most actually recommend a Class 6 for use with apps2sd, but I just wanted to let you know that it would still work with a Class 4. For those unaware, apps2sd allows you to save internal phone memory by placing after-market applications onto your SD card. Most users notice a speed benefit from this.
If you would like to purchase a Class 6 SD card, you can get a one here with three sizes available (4GB, 8GB, 16GB):
A-DATA MicroSDHC Class 6 Turbo With SD Adapter
To ensure the best possible load, perform a factory reset, and WIPE your SD card!
Code:
Menu > Settings > Security > Factory data reset > Reset phone > Erase everything
TRUE FACTORY RESET (UN-ROOT)
If you, like me, have already rooted and are trying to perform this process over again, you will unfortunately have to download the original ROM and flash it in Windows.
Download: RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_1.29.651.1_signed_release.exe
Run in Windows (I used XP through VMWare Fusion), and this will return the phone to the TRULY factory loaded state. Any other Factory data reset will simply reload the last ROM image saved, which, if you rooted and loaded MoDaCo, would be MoDaCo. I am encouraging you to follow this process to avoid any problems that may exist while the phone is rooted or loaded with the unofficial ROM. And even if you perform this process as a first-time rooter, it certainly wont hurt!
ROOT HERO [MAC]
(This is the process that allows modifications to occur on your phone):
The guide I follow and can verify is this:
Rooting CDMA Hero [Mac]
I do not use Windows as a primary platform, so I would recommend following this guide if you are on Windows:
How to root the CDMA Hero (DETAILED Windows guide)
You should be able to return to this guide after you have successfully completed the root process on Windows. Continue from the section "NANDROID BACKUP" below.
Per the purpose of this guide, I will detail my exact steps from the "Rooting CDMA Hero [Mac]" post. Thanks ajones7279!
Plug in your phone
Download Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Unpack, Rename the extracted folder to "AndroidSDK" (This is case sensitive!), and Move it to "Applications" (I consider the Android SDK a set of applications.)
Open TextEdit, Click Format>Make Plain Text, then copy and paste the following:
Code:
export PATH=${PATH}:/Applications/AndroidSDK/tools
Save as: ".bash_profile"
On Phone: Go to Settings > Applications > Development>USB Debugging and make sure the option is checked.
On your Mac: Download asroot2: http://zenthought.org/tmp/asroot2
Save this file into: /Applications/AndroidSDK/tools
Open Terminal and run the following commands (You can copy and paste):
Code:
cd /Applications/AndroidSDK/tools
adb push asroot 2 /data/local
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
adb shell
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4775 su
exit
exit
At this point, the phone has root access.
Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/303797523/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
Save this file into: /Applications/AndroidSDK/tools
Go back to your terminal and type:
Code:
adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
exit
exit
adb shell reboot recovery
Now, the phone will reboot into recovery mode. To preserve our freshly rooted state, we will make a Nandroid backup.
NANDROID BACKUP
*NOTE: These steps assume that you have already entered Recovery Mode on the phone through Terminal "adb shell reboot recovery" or the "Quick Boot" app.*
On phone: Using the trackball, scroll down and select "Nandroid v2.2 backup". This will create a backup of the phone in its freshly rooted state to your SD card, under the nandroid directory.
After it completes the backup, we want to make sure that we have the backup "backed up" by copying it to our Mac (Just in case anything happens to the SD card!).
Select "USB Mass storage on"
After your SD Card appears, copy the contents of the "nandroid" folder to anywhere you wish on your Mac (You are using Time Machine right?)
Once the copy is complete, eject the sdcard in mac and select "USB Mass storage off" on the phone.
NOTE: Nandroid does not backup the contents of your SD card. If you don't want to lose what's on your SD card, MAKE A BACKUP COPY!
From this point forward, if you do something that seems to really mess with the phones functionality, you can simply go back to your Nandroid backup!
RESTORE NANDROID BACKUPS
Select "Nandroid v2.2 restore" *THIS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE*
Your phone will be returned to the condition it was in as of the last Nandroid backup. You can control which backup is restored by deleting the unwanted, time-stamped folders within the "nandroid" directory on your SD card. If you leave only one time-stamped backup folder, that is the backup that will be restored.
Note that this will leave the custom Recovery ROM we loaded (recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img) in place.
I actually perform a Restore after every Backup. While this takes extra time, you know your Backup is intact and not corrupted in any way!
If you are looking for a complete factory reset, you will need to scroll up to "TRUE FACTORY RESET (UN-ROOT)"
PREPARE SD CARD FOR APPS2SD (A2SD)
For those unaware, apps2sd allows you to save internal phone memory by placing after-market applications onto your SD card. Most users notice a speed benefit from this.
Select "Wipe SD: fat32+ext2+swap" *THIS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR SDCARD*
Select "USB Mass storage on"
The mounted drive should now be empty. Double-check that it was partitioned correctly by opening Disk Utility and verifying 3 partitions on the sdcard: NONAME, disk1s2, and disk1s3. Close Disk Utility.
LOAD Unofficial MoDaCo 1.2c Core ROM
Forum Post: Unofficial MoDaCo 1.2
Download: Unofficial MoDaCo 1.2c Core
Save this file into: your SD card. (the root of your SD card, probably named "NONAME" if you didn't change it. You can change it to whatever you want though.)
Save the file as: "update.zip" (Or rename it)
Eject your sdcard and Select "USB Mass storage off"
Select "Apply sdcard:update.zip"
Select "Reboot system now"
If it successfully loaded, you now have a fresh load of the Unofficial MoDaCo 1.2c ROM! Congrats!
I would recommend that you create another Nandroid backup. Scroll back up to "NANDROID BACKUP" and follow the steps over again and come back to this point.
Now you are ready for the workarounds!
Guide: Workaround Issues (Unofficial MoDaCo 1.2c)
Why'd you make another guide?
nice guide man, no need to respond why you made another guide, the more the merry, nicely detailed as well
Shhhhhh.
I was just curious because there are like six...
I made another guide because while many of the forum posts acomplish bits and pieces, my guide provides the overall picture. Root, ROM, and Backup. And my upcoming "Workarond Issues" guide will collect scattered information in a similar fashion.
I find it ironic that I thanked you for your contribution and you find this guide excessive. Would you prefer that I removed the guide?
No not at all. Yours is nice and concise. There's just a lot, that's all. That's why I said it would be nice if a moderator could have merged all the ones that were already written at the end of mine. Didn't mean any harm.
Ah, I see what you mean. To be honest, I am also making this guide for self reference. If most all of the information I need is together its easier to help myself as well as my friends and the community. Thanks again for all your contributions.
Just to raise awareness, Nandroid does NOT back up your apps if you are using AppsToSD as in MoDaCo. You must back up your apps separately.
True, thanks for the heads up. I'll work on a separate guide that details how to backup your other apps. I believe that anything after-market can be backed up and restored through ASTRO though, and this is much easier for most than adb and Terminal commands (push/pull).
The whole 1.56.651.2 Firmware update is also making me wait to post any further guides, as some of my worksarounds may prove useless. It looks like we still have the Apps Renaming and Reverting issue though, and I didn't see the Sprint admin adress such issues specfically.
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ok i did the update to the hero. and now found out about rooting(im new to all this) do i run that program you put in the beginning with windows? and then does that rom resolve the issue with battery with sms and other things the OTA update fixed? or should i get another rom or .img idk what to call it really and what does RUU stand for?
Alright,
A couple things to add to this guide, for the complete noob, as I can try to explain it a little more clear.
This should be done prior to doing anything within the guide.
First, connect your phone to your computer and mount your sd card. This can be done by connecting the usb cable, then on your phone, drop down the menu and chose, connect to p.c., Mount SD card. Make a folder and backup your entire sd card to this folder. Once done, delete everything off the card. if you don't, you will run into format and partitions errors later in the guide.
Eject the sd card on the computer, and end usb sharing on the phone. remove the USB cable from the computer.
Next, on the phone Go to Settings > Applications > Development>USB Debugging
Make sure that USB debugging is NOT CHECKED. If its checked later in the guide you will run into errors pushing the files onto the phone.
At this point you can start the guide from the beginning, under the main heading Root Hero [MAC]
I am running OSX 10.6.2 so i ran into a couple of issues.
Next. Under the part where you have to create the .bash file. This file should be saved in your user folder.
/Users/USERNAME where USERNAME is the name of your user account.
For instance my User account is Hamspiced so my user folder is:
/Users/Hamspiced/
when saving the file, uncheck "if no extension is provided, use .txt".
Next, I couldn't copy paste the code because it wasn't parsed properly. This is what i had to do.
And this should be a direct copy paste into terminal. If you don't know how to access terminal click the spyglass in the upper right hand of the screen, and type in terminal. then you should be able to directly copy paste this text.
Code:
cd /Applications/AndroidSDK/tools
./adb push asroot2 /data/local
./adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
./adb shell
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4775 su
exit
exit
As stated you should have root access on the phone. you can verify this by downloading Terminal emulator from the Market, then running the app. Once inside the app if you hold Menu, you should bring up the onscreen keyboard. if you type in "su" (stands for super user) it will change the prompt from $ to #. If yours does not change, start over, something went wrong. If it did change then you can proceed to the next part of this guide.
Next the guide is trying to put the recovery Image to your phone. This doesnt restore your phone, it just puts the recovery portion to it, and it allows you to do all the cool things to your phone, like allow you to create backups, restore backups, and load customs roms.
again i ran into issues with parsing the correct format so these are copy pastes from terminal.
Code:
./adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
./adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
exit
exit
adb shell reboot recovery
If you get an access denied error pushing the recovery image, its because you had debugging turned on prior to connecting your phone to the computer. it must be off, then turned on once the phone is connected.
This will result in headaches, and endless google searching with no results.
Follow the rest of the guide regarding the Nandroid backup this backs up the entire phone settings. you want to save the raw phone backup as well as the backup after you load the rom. both are incredibly important!
Prepare SD Card for Apps2sd….
If when you checked Disk Utility and your SD card didnt partition properly follow these steps.
You must erase everything on your sd card for these steps to work. I ran into errors creating the partition. What i had to do was in the recovery mode chose factory recovery. when the phone restarted i had to go to Settings>Security>Factory Data Reset.
This restored EVERYTHING. THe phone, Sd Card, Etc. Everything was lost, however since in the begining, we made a backup of the SD card, and then we made a backup of our phone, we are fine.
Restart the phone in recovery mode once this finishes and restarts. (Hold Home and Power to turn on)
Next chose Part SD: fat32+ext2+swap this will partition the card properly. Then choose restart phone.
Once the phone restarts, we have to go through the normal steps that we did once we first received the phone for its first bootup. connect it to the computer, transfer over the Nandroid backup that should be saved from the first time you saved it on your phone. then restart the phone again in recovery mode.
Now you need to restore the nandroid backup. since you transferred it over, its the only nandroid backup there is, it will restore the phones origional settings. from here you can load the official MoDaCO rom fine on the SD card that is now formatted properly.
These are about all the issues and resolutions i ran into. Hopefully it helps someone else.
Guess it's subjective. I think I haven't turned off USB Debugging since shortly after I got the phone and didn't run into any problems. It's always on before I plug it in and I haven't ran into any errors while pushing a file to my sd card. Also didn't erase my sd card before I formatted (did back it up though of course) and everything went smooth. Dunno. It's always good to hear from diff people though. Also just edited my thread, thanks for the heads up.
need help rooting htc hero from sprint
i have 1.5 firmware bb version is 1.04.01.09.21 kernel version 2.6.27-533ce29dhtc [email protected] build number1.56.651.2 cl85027software 1.56 cant get root on this device can someone please help me
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i have 1.5 firmware bb version is 1.04.01.09.21 kernel version 2.6.27-533ce29dhtc [email protected] build number1.56.651.2 cl85027software 1.56 cant get root on this device can someone please help me
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Try here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581686&highlight=root+mac
First, excellent guide! Personally, I used Universal Androot (snipurl.com/uaroot) to root my Hero, but this was a huge help in getting the SDK installed!
I'm running into a problem while trying to do the Nandroid backup. When I try to flash the recovery image, I get the following error message....
AJBlue98$ ./adb shell
$ cd /sdcard/
$ su
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-herocv1.6.2.img
flash_image: not found
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I even try the command with the leading "./" and I get essentially the same thing...
# ./flash_image recovery recovery-RA-herocv1.6.2.img
./flash_image: not found
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I'm running the latest official Sprint 2.1 ROM on my Hero and Terminal on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on a late-2009, 17 in. MacBook Pro. Oh, and I installed the Android SDK into another directory (had it installed before I found this tutorial), so here's my $PATH...
-bash: type: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Users/AJBlue98/soylatte/bin:/Users/AJBlue98/android-sdk-mac_86:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin: not found
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Am I missing something? I'll really appreciate the help!
—Adam
ajblue98 said:
First, excellent guide! Personally, I used Universal Androot (snipurl.com/uaroot) to root my Hero, but this was a huge help in getting the SDK installed!
I'm running into a problem while trying to do the Nandroid backup. When I try to flash the recovery image, I get the following error message....
I even try the command with the leading "./" and I get essentially the same thing...
I'm running the latest official Sprint 2.1 ROM on my Hero and Terminal on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on a late-2009, 17 in. MacBook Pro. Oh, and I installed the Android SDK into another directory (had it installed before I found this tutorial), so here's my $PATH...
Am I missing something? I'll really appreciate the help!
—Adam
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yeah, you're missing the "flash_image" binary on your phone lol search xda for it and push it to /system/bin, then try the command again.
regaw_leinad said:
yeah, you're missing the "flash_image" binary on your phone lol search xda for it and push it to /system/bin, then try the command again.
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Thanks, regaw_leinad, for the lead! I found a copy of the flash_image file and copied it to my Android SDK folder, but when I try to push it to my phone, I get this:
AJBlue98$ ./adb push flash_image /system/bin
failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/system/bin/flash_image': Permission denied
failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/system/bin/flash_image': Read-only file system
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(I rebooted the phone and tried again after my original post. The error message changed. BTW I'm connected via USB with debugging turned on and "Charge only" selected as my connection type.)
I've tried running adb as root, but I get this:
AJBlue98$ ./adb root
adbd cannot run as root in production builds
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Again, any help will be greatly appreciated!
—AJBlue98
ajblue98 said:
Thanks, regaw_leinad, for the lead! I found a copy of the flash_image file and copied it to my Android SDK folder, but when I try to push it to my phone, I get this:
(I rebooted the phone and tried again after my original post. The error message changed. BTW I'm connected via USB with debugging turned on and "Charge only" selected as my connection type.)
I've tried running adb as root, but I get this:
Again, any help will be greatly appreciated!
—AJBlue98
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ok type
adb shell
then
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
to mount it as r/w
then try the flash image command again.
Adb root or adb remount won't work, because your boot.img isn't patched yet.
regaw_leinad said:
ok type
adb shell
then
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
to mount it as r/w
then try the flash image command again.
Adb root or adb remount won't work, because your boot.img isn't patched yet.
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Okay, I did that. I'm still charge-only and debugging turned on, and here's what happened.
(N.B.: I'm on a Mac, so I have to include "./" before running an application in the current directory. Also, I'm including "AJBlue98" in front of my "$" prompts to differentiate my Mac's local prompts from the adb shell prompts.)
AJBlue98$ ./adb shell
$ mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
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So I tried these few things...
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd /sdcard/
# mv flash_image /system/bin
failed on 'flash_image' - Cross-device link
# exit
$ exit
AJBlue98$ ./adb shell su mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Permission denied
AJBlue98$ ./adb push flash_image /system/bin
failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/system/bin/flash_image': Permission denied
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Now I'm completely flummoxed. As always, please help and thanks in advance!
Update: I got frisky, so I tried this, just for the heck of it...
AJBlue98$ ./adb shell
$ su
# cd /sdcard
# ./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc_v1.2.3.img
./flash_image: permission denied
# chmod 755 ./flash_image
# ./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc_v1.2.3.img
./flash_image: permission denied
# su ./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc_v1.2.3.img
Permission denied
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Update 2:
I got some help at irc.twit.tv from a good soul in the #twitlive channel, who pointed me to ROM Manager (downloadable from the Market). That just did the whole backup, hey-presto, no flash_image BS required.
Thanks for the help anyway, all!
ajblue98 said:
Okay, I did that. I'm still charge-only and debugging turned on, and here's what happened.
(N.B.: I'm on a Mac, so I have to include "./" before running an application in the current directory. Also, I'm including "AJBlue98" in front of my "$" prompts to differentiate my Mac's local prompts from the adb shell prompts.)
So I tried these few things...
Now I'm completely flummoxed. As always, please help and thanks in advance!
Update: I got frisky, so I tried this, just for the heck of it...
Update 2:
I got some help at irc.twit.tv from a good soul in the #twitlive channel, who pointed me to ROM Manager (downloadable from the Market). That just did the whole backup, hey-presto, no flash_image BS required.
Thanks for the help anyway, all!
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sweet, glad you got it worked out
there were a few errors in what you did above, but looks like you got everything working without it, so that's good
I searched and got on IRC and can't get a fix for this. WHen i try to use the Fix permissions option in ROM Manager Premium i get the following error.
"error occurred while attempting to run privelaged commands"
I checked superuser and ROM Manager is in there so i selected "forget" then rebooted and tried "fix permissions" again. I got the promp to allow SU and then the error.
Any idea how i can fix this? Is this a bug or a isolated problem?
Not sure if it is related or not but I had to same problem until I bought the full version off of the market.
Maybe it's part of the extended functionality?
As I noted I have "Rom Manager Premium" I don't think it's related anyway.
Just found the answer to this (as I too was having this problem). See the link below:
http://androidforums.com/899973-post26.html
It has to do with busybox not installed in the correct place.
One more thing: Make sure that busbox is set to "755" so that it can execute.
Thanks
sw99 said:
Just found the answer to this (as I too was having this problem). See the link below:
http://androidforums.com/899973-post26.html
It has to do with busybox not installed in the correct place.
One more thing: Make sure that busbox is set to "755" so that it can execute.
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Thanks for the link to the fix!
I am unable to get the busybox file to copy from the /data.... directory into the /system/bin/ directory. Any ideas?
jtoole1 said:
I am unable to get the busybox file to copy from the /data.... directory into the /system/bin/ directory. Any ideas?
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did you mount the system partition prior to trying this?
I'm also having an issue moving the file using root explorer. Any other ideas?
the_grobe said:
I'm also having an issue moving the file using root explorer. Any other ideas?
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Yeah, same here. My problem is that I've never used Root Explorer before. At the top it says mounted as r/w (in the /system/bin directory) , but it won't copy the file using the Root Explorer program. When I click [Paste] it doesn't give me an error, but when I go and check the directory, the file is not there. I even tried refresh. Any ideas?
UPDATE: I have not solved the problem yet, but I did notice that the /system/bin directory that I am trying to copy to says "0K bytes available," which is probably why it won't copy. So I guess my (no copy) problem is due to my lack of understanding of the file structure of the DI.
UPDATE: I finally got it working. Here is what I did.
1. Boot phone into recovery
2. Push busybox from /sdk/tools folder to sdcard
Code:
adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
adb shell
3. Installed busybox to /system/xbin
Code:
$ su
#export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
#cd /system/xbin
# cat /sdcard/busybox > busybox
# chmod 06755 busybox
# busybox --install -s /system/xbin
# rm /sdcard/busybox
# exit
$ exit
4. Booted up phone, and ROM manager fixed permissions as per request.
Hope that helps.
Thanks. I appreciate your feedback. But it looks like I wasted my money again on a useless program like "Root Explorer." I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do all of that command line crap anymore after having rooted.
Does anyone know if there is a file manager out there that will push/pull files via cut/paste rather than using a seperate computer with a command line interface?
I don't think that there is going to be a program like that until we've got full NAND unlock.
the_grobe said:
I don't think that there is going to be a program like that until we've got full NAND unlock.
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Is someone working on that? I believe the facts are, that the Unrevoked team knows how to do it...but they won't give us the means to do it. Probably because they think we'll shoot ourselves in the foot...and blame them...and they're probably right!
I can not do the cat command it tels me Cant create busybox, read only file system.
Any ideas????????????????
when i was modding widget locker i was using linda file manager free to cut and paste out of the system folder im gonna try it right now to fix this problem ill let u know if it works
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?
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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.
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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.
I've seen that there's no topic teaching how to ROOT the phone in the forum yet, so I'm making one myself, I hope this will help users who come here looking for info.
This method was originally found by jboogie3 here http://modmymobile.com/forums/637-motorola-defy-general/557910-motorola-defy-root-droid2method.html
EDIT: If you have version 2.51 ROOT with another way, check out this topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889133
Let's get started:
1. Put the phone in Debug Mode: Go to Settings > Applications > Development and check USB debugging box.
2. Extract the files from the zip below, connect the phone via USB, and copy them to the phone via ADB like this:
Code:
adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
adb push su /sdcard/su
adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
adb push exploit.bin /data/local/tmp/exploit.bin
3. Now we enter the phone's internal shell, also using ADB:
Code:
adb shell
4. Then we take advantage of the "fake" root exploit:
Code:
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 0755 exploit.bin
./exploit.bin
5. Now after that last command you should be back to your normal console, not the phone one, so we need to connect to it again, and doing so we should now see that we have root permissions since the "#" symbol is displayed instead of "$".
Code:
adb shell
6. Now we mount the /system partition as writable and copy the necessary files there, and set them with the right permissions:
Code:
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
7. Restart the phone and check if you have ROOT in a terminal by typing the "su" command, or by installing any other app that requires ROOT, and seeing it the SuperUser app pops up.
Or, download z4root by ryan in the market. Click permanent root, done.
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Many people reported z4root to work, but somehow it didn't work for me :\, phone reboot 2 times, but root wasn't being recognized system wide. But yeah, there's no problem testing that first, if it works for you it's way simpler
Worked well for me. Almost too easy.
Thank you for the great write up though.
pedrodh said:
Many people reported z4root to work, but somehow it didn't work for me :\, phone reboot 2 times, but root wasn't being recognized system wide. But yeah, there's no problem testing that first, if it works for you it's way simpler
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Well, at least this will help people know what's going on in the background for achieving ROOT hehe
Thanks for posting and distur for the z4root tip, worked for me.
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Yep. z4root worked for me as well. Perfect.
Nice writeup! very detailed
thx !!!
thanks much
z4root worked for me as well. no issues and running for more than a week now rooted. haven't tried the unroot function yet...
I made it also with z4root...no problem so far
root
are we talking super 1 click, rooted mine 1st day i got it same method as droid no probs so far, all the crap from vodafone gone now, waiting for a nice rom
I heard that the DORoot works as well. There are also links on how to root on the Droid 2. I'd think it would be similar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782556
hi first time android newbie here-
i downloaded and install z4root - how do i confirmed the device was rooted?
After rooting, in your application drawer (middle button that brings up all your apps) you'll see the superuser app. It looks like an android skull and crossbones.
I have a Motorola Defy on T-Mobile UK, If I use z4root will this enable me to root my phone.
Exactly what does rooting achieve, Will it allow me to try another rom?
Yes, z4root will let you achieve root on this phone.
ROOT has nothing or very little to do with custom ROMs, ROOT it's the Unix super user, the administrator per say. With it certain apps that modify system properties will work (search Android Market for "root"), and also it enables you to do all sorts of crazy stuff on the phone, like literaly modify any file. So if for example there's an app that bundles with the phone, and that you normaly couldn't unistall it, with ROOT you can just delete the app, and that's it . That's and many more things, although root it's most usufull for developers or hackers than the normal user. It's not like jailbreaking an Iphone, Android it's already open enough for the regular user.
If I root the Motorola Defy and I delete some files because I not familiar with this, will I make my Motorola Defy dead.
croxley said:
If I root the Motorola Defy and I delete some files because I not familiar with this, will I make my Motorola Defy dead.
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Rooting doesn't delete files If you've rooted your phone, you won't be able to just go to the system folder and delete something. You need tools like "root exporer" for this. This is a payware. When you rooted your phone, this root explorer can ask you for more rights. These are needed to delete needed files. Also you can do it for free with the androidSDK. Have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9456771&postcount=1
but be: don't do thinks where you don't know to get it undone. You CAN brick your phone and then you'll have to spend much time to get it back working.
alt link: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-guide-stock-2-3-6-replenish.html#post1651482
REVISED TUTORIAL IN ROOTING 2.3.6 SAMSUNG REPLENISH
warning for experienced adb users!: this was made with noobs in mind. you may learn something (from me! a noob! XD) but anyways, enjoy!
this does not affect anything on the phone except for adding the ability to access root permissions. CWM is not permanent, it disappears after you use it, and nothing on the phone is affected, as far as i know, but i had just factory reset the phone, so use at your own risk...
you may need to know:
root of a drive- drives are designated C:\ or D:\ or whatever letter in windows. Just go to "computer" and double click the first item. That location is the "root" of a drive.
Note: make sure you have at least 400 mb of memory (i know, thats alot, but just in case) on your sd card so you can back up your entire phone! i reccomend doing every optional step!!! It'll save you hassle if you have problems. If you can't make room for some reason, and you still wanna try, you should skip step 8. I don't suggest it though.
1. download "odin.zip" and "su" here: https://www.box.com/shared/620b03e95cc0814fefc8 and unzip to your desktop. if you dont have the android sdk, simply copy the "adb.exe" file from "odin.zip" to the root of your primary drive for later. Just go to "computer" and double click the top icon/item. It should say something about C:/. If you're on Mac, sorry. Idk much about it. As for Linux, I have no clue how you'd even try to do this. I love Linux but, sadly, can't experiment with this in it. WINE has its limits....... And I don't think adb or Odin would work.
2. download the "su" file and put into into "platform-tools" where you installed the android sdk, if you have it, or put onto the root of your primary drive if you havent.
3. start phone while holding "spacebar" and "p". "downloading..." should appear on the screen in yellow text
4. plug into the computer and run "Odin_Multi_Downloader_v4.42.exe"
5. select SPHM580.ops for "OPS" and Replenish-CWM5.tar for "One Package" (they should be the only options) DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!
6. hit "Start" and DO NOT REMOVE PHONE FROM USB.
7. as the phone reboots, hold "u" until CWM opens and set the phone down. you should close Odin now.
8. use the volume keys to navigate to the backup and restore option and use enter to select backup. wait for it to finish completely and take you back to the the CWM main UI. backing up here creates a pure recovery, untouched by anything. CWM is NOT installed into this recovery. continue with the guide.
9. open the command prompt (type cmd.exe in search or run in the start menu, depending on your version of windows) or use some form of terminal emulator on your operating system of choice. command prompt is preferred due to the fact i know it can get the job done, but do what you will.
10. navigate to the drive your sdk is on and into "platform-tools" or to the folder you put the adb.exe and su files on. the default should be [name of drive]:\Users\[username]\. use the "cd.." command til youre at the root of the drive, and if you installed the sdk, type "cd android-sdk-windows/platform-tools" or just go to the root of the drive and go to the next step if you havent. just be sure adb.exe and su are there.
11. type this in line for line, with enters in between. the blue "~#" in the later lines is the prompt you should have. do not type this. it will be in blue. (clockworkmod should still be open on your phone at this point)
adb shell
~#mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl12 /system
~#exit
adb push su /system/bin/
adb shell
~#chmod 777 /system/bin/su
~#reboot
DO NOT CLOSE THE COMMAND PROMPT YET FOR THE SAKE OF CONVENIENCE
If you have problems with that, try using CWM to mount "/system". Some friendly people over at androidcentral pointed that out. I personally didn't have that problem, but I'm glad it's fixed.
12. when your phone has rebooted, go back to the open command prompt, which should be where it was before you typed "adb shell"
13. type "adb shell". you will see a prompt of "$." type "su." if you have a prompt of "#" rejoice! you have permanent root! now you can go on the Play Store and find "Superuser" and "Busybox" (they should be free. if you cant find it, get ahold of me and ill try to supply the newest updates) if not, and you have a backup from optional step 2, you should go through til you hit CWM and restore the backup. if not, make one now and reattempt everything aside from downloads and the moving the files around on your computer. Also, someone said something about "chmod 06755 /system/bin/su", so if you might try using that instead of "chmod 777 /system/bin/su". 777 worked for me, but maybe this works better for you.
OPTIONAL FINISH STEP: I dont know how you install CWM permanently, but you should do this so you can make backups of your rom and store them somewhere like on a box.com or mediafire.com account if you decide to mess with something on your phone. (use hjsplit to break it into pieces for uploading and reassemble after download for flashing if its too big). to use a recovery, enter CWM (either the way i have here or if you have permanently installed, just reboot and hold "u") and navigate to "backup and restore," "restore," and select the recovery you wish to use on your sd card (make sure when you take out a backup for storage, you zip up the entire folder with the name that contains the date and time of your backup.) it will overwrite everything on your phone to be exactly like it was when you backed it up.
good luck! have fun!
Note: if you rename the CWM backup file, make sure it DOESN'T HAVE A SPACE or it'll give you something about md5 or something not matching. If it says this, remove any spaces in the name and try again. I had it happen on my xperia play and freaked, thinking it was soft-bricked permanently one time, til I found out about cwm's glitch with that.
Also, I uploaded pretty much everything needed for rooting the phone, with comments pertaining to each file. This includes current (as of July 31, 2012) copies of Superuser.apk, a busybox installer, and the busybox and su binaries, as well the Odin package containing the tools to temp flash CWM.
the odin.zip file and the process of achieving CWM temp-flashing was found at http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...method-samsung-replenish-android-2-3-6-a.html and credit for that part is given to joshua.worth, although I took it a different path than he did.
Update to above info: to simplify things, I uploaded all relevant files to box so people can get them easier. The su file went missing from xda, most importantly, so I fixed that, and added an updated binary in case someone has trouble with the other one.
contact me at [email protected] if you cant pm me.
Sorry if it takes a while to respond. Life's been kinda crazy for me lately, and I am using my new phone (no service) to do this over wifi.
ahh... well, turns out unrooting cannot be done with a CWM backup... you probably have to find a nandroid or a clean version of kernel with rom. the su file dissapears, although root is still there. ill keep playing with it, i have an idea why root stays although su disappears from the system files. anyways, i will still supply a backup thats pre-rooted for anyone who is willing to have a fresh start on their replenish. it will have superuser.apk preinstalled along with busybox, and everything else will be wiped. this will be a sprint backup, so if anyone has the boost version and is willing to back up with CWM and factory reset, then follow my guide, install busybox and superuser.apk, then back it up again, id be eternally grateful to have a copy
by the way, if anyone has problems with restoring a backup due to "md5" tags or whatever it is, make sure the name of the backup has no spaces. i was freaking out til i found that tip on an obscure forum (well, to me. i dont have a Motorola. lol. just a Sony Ericsson and 2 Samsungs)
update: sorry i havent uploaded the backup. i realized it would give whoever used it the number on this phone and i have to fix that. havent had time to anyways, plus it would only work on a sprint phone. it would convert any boost mobile to sprint, so thats a no-go. sorry...
does this work for the boost mobile replenish that is 2.3.6 if so how long does it take to odin
It should work. And Odin just flashes cwm (really fast) for the duration of the next boot cycle, which it automatically initiates, so hold the recovery button (I think it's u) as it goes into it and you'll have temp root. Make sure it's in download mode before you start. Remember, it cannot be unrooted, so if you value your warranty, plz think twice before doing it. I'm just here to supply the how-to if you decide to, not to say you have to. If you do, enjoy root access!
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It should work. And Odin just flashes cwm (really fast) for the duration of the next boot cycle, which it automatically initiates, so hold up (I think it's u) as it goes into it and you'll have temp root. Make sure it's in download mode before you start. Remember, it cannot be unrooted, so if you value your warranty, plz think twice before doing it. I'm just here to supply the how-to if you decide to, not to say you have to. If you do, enjoy root access!
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Thanks. I did not know if there is a fail safe if something went wrong. so I was second guessing. Very simple to do thank you assuming with odin I made a back up. if I where to mess my system up I can use odin and restore my backup and I be back up and running again no need to sbf
i keep getting : ~ # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock3 on /system failed: Invalid argument
bscabl said:
i keep getting : ~ # mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock3 on /system failed: Invalid argument
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hmm... i am familiar with the error (ive gotten it with 3 different phones in my attempt to root it, but i have succeeded each time regardless) but are you sure you actually have clockworkmod OPEN on your phone when the error shows up? i cant actually do anything from my end, because i no longer have a computer i can use to test anything, or the replenish i rooted with the method... but i opened the cwm several times before thinking to test the adb and seeing the "~#". i actually restarted the phone and did it again before actually rooting it, seeing if i had rooted it or what, and tho i got the same prompt every time it was booted in cwm, it wouldnt show up if i allowed the phone to boot normally after using odin, i HAD to ACTUALLY boot into the cwm menu, which is completely seperate from the OS itself, although it has access to the system files.
by the way, copy and paste this directly into the command prompt when you get to the step to avoid human error. mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
or, if it wont work, try this mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
sorry bout the babbling XD. anyways, cwm should be circumnavigating the root permissions. hmm.... if you still have problems after that, try skipping to the adb push for the "su" file.
sorry i havent been on top of the thread. ill set up an email notification.
and by the way, something i found very useful on my xperia play when it went into infinite reboot, you can always just restore the system files in the advanced restore option, allowing you to keep all of your app data if, later down the line, your phone needs to be restored. hope this helps. it helped me XD thought id lose all of my messages, but nope. i decided to explore the advanced restore and yay! i got to keep them XD
UPDATE
I don't know if it matters to you anymore, but apparently, some people have trouble with this and fix it by going to the mount menu in CWM and mounting /system
Couple of corrections:
chmod 777 /system/bin/su
should be chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
and then following that command should be
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
and I saw someone say this is unrootable. Thats not correct. Simply running the unroot script would unroot. Doomlord made a nice one.
To use it do the following:
Code:
adb push unroot /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/unroot
adb shell su -c "/data/local/unroot"
adb reboot
[code]
The above will unroot almost any android device.
halfcab123 said:
Couple of corrections:
chmod 777 /system/bin/su
should be chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
and then following that command should be
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
and I saw someone say this is unrootable. Thats not correct. Simply running the unroot script would unroot. Doomlord made a nice one.
To use it do the following:
Code:
adb push unroot /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/unroot
adb shell su -c "/data/local/unroot"
adb reboot
[code]
The above will unroot almost any android device.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, Doomlord's method didn't work on it. I tried all manner of one clicks and manual versions and only this got even temporary root. It's a workaround based on forcing the phone to boot into a custom recovery. (I call it custom bc its not an "official" recovery.) And I chose the chmod by looking through many manual ways to root, and that one was popular, and it works. I had full root access afterwards. I tried to unroot afterwards, however, so I could take screenshots and stuff, but the su file would reappear, even after manual deletion or restoring to an unrooted backup. Anyways, point is, this is the only method I could get to work at all, and it does work.
But the "chmod" night help other people, so ill make note of it in the post just in case. Thanks for the info.
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Important fix----
If step 11 doesn't work, go to the "mount" menu in cwm and mount /system. Some people on androidcentral were kind enough to mention that this fixed their problem with mounting /system as rewritable
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isavegas said:
Important fix----
If step 11 doesn't work, go to the "mount" menu in cwm and mount /system. Some people on androidcentral were kind enough to mention that this fixed their problem with mounting /system as rewritable
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thats because your command is wrong
shabbypenguin said:
thats because your command is wrong
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How? Throughout my own rooting of one of the phones, I had this working perfectly. Every time I hit a snag, I found a way around it and documented it. A few other people had errors show up because the phone itself hadn't mounted the system, but the problem was resolved, and only a couple people had any other problems, and they were unrelated to that. I assure you, every command works properly, as far as I know.
exactly my point. your command to mount system is wrong.
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
lets break it down shall we?
mount - this is teh command
-o remount,rw - this is where you tell it what option you want, in this case remounting as rw.
-t yaffs2 - here you are telling mount that it should expect a yaffs2 formatted device, which is not what the samsung replenish is. the replenish uses RFS (robust file system), the best way i can describe it is like telling your windows computer that your hard drive is fat32 when its actually ntfs.
/dev/block/mtdblock3 - this is where you tell mount what you are looking to mount, the issue here is that the replenish doesnt use MTD blocks, it uses STL's and BML's.
/system here is where you are trying to mount the said device to..
out of 5 parts you did get 3 correct tho. you might wish to modify your guide to reflect the actual mount command, for your device it is the following:
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl12 /system
and that will kick out system as r/w
shabbypenguin said:
exactly my point. your command to mount system is wrong.
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
lets break it down shall we?
mount - this is teh command
-o remount,rw - this is where you tell it what option you want, in this case remounting as rw.
-t yaffs2 - here you are telling mount that it should expect a yaffs2 formatted device, which is not what the samsung replenish is. the replenish uses RFS (robust file system), the best way i can describe it is like telling your windows computer that your hard drive is fat32 when its actually ntfs.
/dev/block/mtdblock3 - this is where you tell mount what you are looking to mount, the issue here is that the replenish doesnt use MTD blocks, it uses STL's and BML's.
/system here is where you are trying to mount the said device to..
out of 5 parts you did get 3 correct tho. you might wish to modify your guide to reflect the actual mount command, for your device it is the following:
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl12 /system
and that will kick out system as r/w
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Hmmmm.... Odd..... *shrugs* I had no problem with the command, but I guess other ppl had pickier computers or phones. Hell, Vista's buginess might have worked in my favor that time XD. Thanks for the pointer. I didn't really understand the exact way the replenish was built. I just found a lil guide for making it boot into cwm and found it allowed for me to use that as an exploit to root the device. In fact, I've done the same kind of stuff to root the samsung Intercept, except I made their own software flash a pre-rooted kernel. anyways, I'll update the guide on xda and androidcentral. Thanks!
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Hmmmm.... Odd..... *shrugs* I had no problem with the command, but I guess other ppl had pickier computers or phones. Hell, Vista's buginess might have worked in my favor that time XD. Thanks for the pointer. I didn't really understand the exact way the replenish was built. I just found a lil guide for making it boot into cwm and found it allowed for me to use that as an exploit to root the device. In fact, I've done the same kind of stuff to root the samsung Intercept, except I made their own software flash a pre-rooted kernel. anyways, I'll update the guide on xda and androidcentral. Thanks!
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chances are you had system mounted in cwm without knowing it.
for future knowledge always check the devices fstab for where to mount and filesystem type
https://github.com/Shabbypenguin/android_device_replenish/blob/master/recovery/recovery.fstab
as you can see the proper mounts from the files i used to make CWM for the replenish
shabbypenguin said:
chances are you had system mounted in cwm without knowing it.
for future knowledge always check the devices fstab for where to mount and filesystem type
https://github.com/Shabbypenguin/android_device_replenish/blob/master/recovery/recovery.fstab
as you can see from the files i used to make CWM for the replenish the proper mounts
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Eh, maybe. For all I know the first thing I did was mount everything with cwm. I DID do this several months ago. I don't even have the phone anymore. The owner of the phone was gonna give it to me after upgrading, but she sold it, so I kept her 500gb laptop hard drive instead. Popped it out of the external hdd casing and stuck it in a laptop. XD. It now has Linux on it.
Anyways, I've updated the guide to have the right command and note that if it doesn't work to use cwm to mount /system. And how do you find the fstab? Just Google it? Or is it somewhere on the device?
Btw, do you know anything about cwm? It refuses to properly back up my xperia play anymore. The .android_secure folder keeps giving it errors.
isavegas said:
Eh, maybe. For all I know the first thing I did was mount everything with cwm. I DID do this several months ago. I don't even have the phone anymore. The owner of the phone was gonna give it to me after upgrading, but she sold it, so I kept her 500gb laptop hard drive instead. Popped it out of the external hdd casing and stuck it in a laptop. XD. It now has Linux on it.
Anyways, I've updated the guide to have the right command and note that if it doesn't work to use cwm to mount /system. And how do you find the fstab? Just Google it? Or is it somewhere on the device?
Btw, do you know anything about cwm? It refuses to properly back up my xperia play anymore. The .android_secure folder keeps giving it errors.
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its where the recovery is on the device. each device has their own fstab. as for your error sounds like a conflict, either with cwm itself or that folder
shabbypenguin said:
its where the recovery is on the device. each device has their own fstab. as for your error sounds like a conflict, either with cwm itself or that folder
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It HAS to he cwm, because the folder is regarded as super hidden by the device. The folder itself can be seen, but the contents can ONLY be edited by the rom or a pc, and I haven't touched it with a pc before. It's where your apps go when you move them to the sd card. I've been trying to back my phone up with cwm because I wanted to test the jelly bean alpha release for it. its the xperia play 4g. Stupid backup crashes every time I try and it ends up eating up what room is left in my sdcard.
i followed your guide and have root in shell. however i cant get root permission on any apps, the window doesnt pop up asking me for permission. i also get a toast notification saying superuser access denied for whatever app im trying to open. any ideas?
arodey said:
i followed your guide and have root in shell. however i cant get root permission on any apps, the window doesnt pop up asking me for permission. i also get a toast notification saying superuser access denied for whatever app im trying to open. any ideas?
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What does your Superuser log show?
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