So I have a ns4g that I attempted to root but got hung up and am now stuck with a unlocked bootloader but no super user. So as I see it I have 3 options (if you see others PLEASE TELL ME)
1. somehow get my bootloader locked again and go back to stock (unroot)
2. keep unlocked bootloader and eventually accept ics ota (will this be ok or will having an unlocked bootloader much things up with the ota?)
3. figure out a way to finish the root process I'm sort of in the middle of (aka get super user)
If it matters I am running 2.3.7 and using a macbook running 10.7.2
What would you guys suggest?
jmelick07 said:
So I have a ns4g that I attempted to root but got hung up and am now stuck with a unlocked bootloader but no super user. So as I see it I have 3 options (if you see others PLEASE TELL ME)
1. somehow get my bootloader locked again and go back to stock (unroot)
2. keep unlocked bootloader and eventually accept ics ota (will this be ok or will having an unlocked bootloader much things up with the ota?)
3. figure out a way to finish the root process I'm sort of in the middle of (aka get super user)
If it matters I am running 2.3.7 and using a macbook running 10.7.2
What would you guys suggest?
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flash a custom recovery(cwm or twrp) via fastboot, then flash a custom rom(and gapps). thats all you need. all the custom roms out there have root. you dont have to flash superuser.
How do I flash cwm? I think when I did this before I had the wrong version as it didn't allow for me to mount after I unlocked the bootloader
Use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250583 to root! It will recognize that your bootloader is already unlocked and skips to flashing CMW and giving you root! There's a youtube video showing it in action if you get stuck by qbking!
Will this work with osx?
jmelick07 said:
How do I flash cwm? I think when I did this before I had the wrong version as it didn't allow for me to mount after I unlocked the bootloader
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heres the latest version of cwm recovery for the nexus s(not ns4G) http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img
heres where all the cwm recoveries can be found, including the ns4g http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Ok, now how do I get that img on my phone?
The cwm for ns4g that I just downloaded that is
I'm fairly content just waiting for the google ics ota... when that comes will it mess my phone up because of my unlocked bootloader?
or even better can someone write me instructions to lock my bootloader?
I found this forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875630
But obviously there are steps before this to have the terminal put these commands towards the phone.
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Ok, now how do I get that img on my phone?
The cwm for ns4g that I just downloaded that is
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look at part 3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
only you dont need superuser, any custom rom has root.
Ok, I think I just want to relock my phone and wait for the ota...
I've tried just going into terminal and typing "fastboot oem lock" and it says that the command is not found... what did I do wrong?
You don't need to lock bootoader to get ota.
I've read before that accepting an ota with an unlocked bootloader will brick your phone... Can anyone else confirm that it's ok to accept the eventual ota with an unlocked bootloader?
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Hi Guys, as subject really! Is it possible to get the phone in a "Google" state to pull down updates, obviously meaning the impending ICS one!
B
I'm implying that you're on a custom ROM at the moment. You'll have to flash one of the stock ROM images, then you can get OTA's again.
It doesn't matter if you're rooted or have an unlocked bootloader.
Greetz
frutelaken said:
I'm implying that you're on a custom ROM at the moment. You'll have to flash one of the stock ROM images, then you can get OTA's again.
It doesn't matter if you're rooted or have an unlocked bootloader.
Greetz
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Hey mate, thankyou for helping. I've not actually received it yet, bought one off ebay and I am just pre-empting - If you flash stock does the root and unlocked bootloader become standard again??
(I'm upgrading from an old Galaxy 3, so am reasonably familiar with flashing, but want a simple life now and am going stock Google )
B
Nope, flashing a stock image will not affect your bootloader being unlocked. You'll have to run the "fastboot oem lock" command to lock the bootloader again. Check one of the turorials here
Greetz
//edit: Actually, I'm suddenly not sure of this. Sunday evenings' got me confused. Please wait for someone else to verify.
Thankyou I'll have a look round
I have been flashing several ROMs using ROM Manager and the bootloader wasn't affected by this. The stock OTAs kept unrooting the phone though.
n00bfuscator said:
I have been flashing several ROMs using ROM Manager and the bootloader wasn't affected by this. The stock OTAs kept unrooting the phone though.
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That's normal, the OTA's reset the permissions on key folders, effectively SU looses it's execute permissions, removing root. What i do now is download the OTA to the SD card, apply it, re-apply the SU.zip to keep root, modify the restore-recovery script so i can keep CWM, then reboot.
I'm not sure how it's going to go with ICS, but we shall see.
So as some of you may know, the vivid was recently unlocked. Being comfortable with root and custom roms from my nexus one, I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it...
I then wanted to install a ROM that many were reporting to work well with the ATT vivid... however I did something wrong.
I first went here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365853 which says you need to install the kernel here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359656
However I guess I have no recovery? If I click on recovery in bootloader it just shows a phone with some arrows... and if I open ADB on my computer it just scrolls through stuff quickly then closes. Am I screwed? I can get to my bootloader at least... any help would be much appreciated.
If I could somehow flash the stock kernel back I'm sure it would work, as the stock kernel source is available at htcdev However I can't figure out how to get adb to let me actually enter commands while in the bootloader.
Solved it!
I pushed the recovery using fastboot on the computer and was able to flash the ROM. Yay!
Ok so how does your rom work for you? is it better than stock? Oh and of course what rom was it?
Gary
Hey all,
I rooted my HOX (1.73, 4.0.3) with the kpenn ne-Click a few days after I got it for the Tether and to de-bloat. Since then I haven't read anything on the One X till I heard Jelly Bean coming along. Anyhoo my question is what the upside of getting the new OTA (4.0.4) would be and how I would go about it if I wanted to (I've never updated before and ATT has stopped asking me to update, also I get nothing when I try to check for an update).
I've been reading around and it seems like most people are on to 1.85 and are flashing 4.1/2.2. My primary uses of my phone are for the media applications/web browsing and I haven't noticed any real drop in performance but I have heard the new updates have sped up the HOX considerably which is something I'm always interested in.
Thanks!
DON'T flash any OTA you will lose your root and will lose your ability to re root because there is no boot loader unlock for the new base. If you want to update and flash a new ROM and want to stick to sense, look at clean rom or xi40. Both are updated on the new base and are heaps and bounds better than the original ATT software :thumbup:
Shaddy-Z. said:
DON'T flash any OTA you will lose your root and will lose your ability to re root because there is no boot loader unlock for the new base. If you want to update and flash a new ROM and want to stick to sense, look at clean rom or xi40. Both are updated on the new base and are heaps and bounds better than the original ATT software :thumbup:
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i one-clicked unrooted my phone earlier and freaked out (and the new updates didn't work out on my phone anyway). i ended up getting kpenn's one click again and putting SU back into my phone. Do you have any links that can take me on a step by step process of unlocking my phone and flashing those roms on it? I just love being able to control my phone and pushing it to its absolute limits.
Sigh. I followed the tutorial but I made a few mistakes...
1) I unlocked my phone way earlier than I should have so I wiped everything before I could make a back-up..
2) Re-locked accordingly to see if I could keep updating. I did manage to get to 1.85 like the tutorial said but.....
3) Since I didn't have a custom recovery I wasn't sure how to proceed. I couldn't get the root to flash so I tried using the 1-click 1.85 root since my phone was running 1.85.
....This ended up updating to 2.2 so now I have an unlocked HOX 2.2/4.0.4. With all the bloat.
Dumb dumb dumb. Ugh.
Pbdeng said:
Sigh. I followed the tutorial but I made a few mistakes...
1) I unlocked my phone way earlier than I should have so I wiped everything before I could make a back-up..
2) Re-locked accordingly to see if I could keep updating. I did manage to get to 1.85 like the tutorial said but.....
3) Since I didn't have a custom recovery I wasn't sure how to proceed. I couldn't get the root to flash so I tried using the 1-click 1.85 root since my phone was running 1.85.
....This ended up updating to 2.2 so now I have an unlocked HOX 2.2/4.0.4. With all the bloat.
Dumb dumb dumb. Ugh.
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it's UNLOCKED?
you're lucky then.
just push a recovery like twrp then push root. Then you can debloat.
Yep, it's still unlocked. That was around the 4-7th reset I did (I messed up a lot). Do you have a link that shows me how to do that? I'm actually not as bummed about going to 2.2 since it runs so much faster than 1.73 did.
Pbdeng said:
Yep, it's still unlocked. That was around the 4-7th reset I did (I messed up a lot). Do you have a link that shows me how to do that? I'm actually not as bummed about going to 2.2 since it runs so much faster than 1.73 did.
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make sure you have your unlock token and then go to http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-4/
and follow the directions.
after that look at this thread to install twrp http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777773
then this one to re-root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1673935
I notice one of the links is for 1.85. Does that mean that I'll go from 2.2 back to 1.85? I just wanted to make sure since my impression from the forums is that there is no 2.2 root yet unless it was flashed.
Pbdeng said:
I notice one of the links is for 1.85. Does that mean that I'll go from 2.2 back to 1.85? I just wanted to make sure since my impression from the forums is that there is no 2.2 root yet unless it was flashed.
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no those pages just tell you how to manually install root and recovery.
your bootloader is still unlockable
unlock it
then install a recovery
then install root via that recovery
Ahh, thanks a bunch man.
Sorry if this is repetitive....
So I've checked my phone and currently it states that it is
"Re-locked"
I downloaded a recovery so it's currently on my phone. Furthermore I all ready had a copy of SU sitting in my phone's download folder.
Does this mean that I'm going to...
- Unlock bootloader (that is currently relocked) and have everything erased again.
- Reboot from recovery (of the evita 2.2.img I just downloaded with TWRP)
- Then flash the SU root I all ready have on my phone?
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Sorry if this is repetitive....
So I've checked my phone and currently it states that it is
"Re-locked"
I downloaded a recovery so it's currently on my phone. Furthermore I all ready had a copy of SU sitting in my phone's download folder.
Does this mean that I'm going to...
- Unlock bootloader (that is currently relocked) and have everything erased again.
- Reboot from recovery (of the evita 2.2.img I just downloaded with TWRP)
- Then flash the SU root I all ready have on my phone?
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yeah unlock the boot loader. set up the phone again
then install the recovery then root.
to make your unlock stick, turn off fastboot in power options, then power down phone completely then restart it to the bootloader.
Hmm, so my phone is definitely unlocked now. I installed the recovery and I manually flashedthe new SuperSU in that link you posted for me. As far as I can tell nothing is happening.
Note: It says that it installs the recovery but there is no reboot that occurs. I've done this both with the android app and manually and nothing is happening.
I don't see SuperSU and rootchecker is confirming that my phone isn't rooted yet.
so you reboot to recovery, choose the superSU package to install then what happens?
I know this works I've done it quite a few times myself.
Presently I installed the latest img file with TWRP with the app. There is not reboot that occurs (unless I'm suppose to reboot on my own?). If that's the case then I've been a total idiot.
I've just been installing the openrecovery and then I press "Flash Roms" to flash the supersu. I get a little notification that says "Preparing to Flash" and then nada.
After you install twrp recovery you reboot. Then you boot to recovery and flash the super su zip manually
Wooh! I got it to work! Thank you so much!
Pbdeng said:
Wooh! I got it to work! Thank you so much!
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No problemmo.
Does this also mean that I can flash any ROMs I want on my phone now?
Yes. But you will have to flash kernels aka boot.img separately using fast boot.
What I have done so far, in order:
Installed the OTA JB upgrade on my 100% stock unrooted tablet.
Installed and configured ADB.
Downgraded to the .30 firmware.
Rooted my device (confirmed working).
So right now I have rooted ICS, but I can't choose the fastboot option anymore when I boot using the volume down+power combination. I only have the option to boot the device normally or wipe data.
How can I get fastboot back on my device? ADB is still working normally.
It's probably a simple solution I'm missing but I've been trying to get CM10 installed for about 2 hours now just trying to work my way through the steps one at a time and right now I'm a bit lost.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Octhellion said:
What I have done so far, in order:
Installed the OTA JB upgrade on my 100% stock unrooted tablet.
Installed and configured ADB.
Downgraded to the .30 firmware.
Rooted my device (confirmed working).
So right now I have rooted ICS, but I can't choose the fastboot option anymore when I boot using the volume down+power combination. I only have the option to boot the device normally or wipe data.
How can I get fastboot back on my device? ADB is still working normally.
It's probably a simple solution I'm missing but I've been trying to get CM10 installed for about 2 hours now just trying to work my way through the steps one at a time and right now I'm a bit lost.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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I have been on JB for awhile, so if my memory served me right, for ICS, you need to unlock your device to get to fastboot? On JB, you could get to fastboot without unlocked. Correct me if I'm wrong ppl.
That's correct. You need to unlock if you want fastboot on ICS. If you upgrade to JB, you can keep your root and have fastboot back.
Also, you need to be unlocked regardless if you want to install a custom ROM like CM10 or any custom recoveries. Even if you upgrade to JB and get fastboot back, it will not flash if you're not unlocked.
I forgot to mention that I already used an unlock tool and it says this device is unlocked during boot. I'm on my phone right now so if someone could provide me with a link with more information about this unlocking I would be very appreciative.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1795156
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That's the app I already tried, but the fastboot option is still missing.
Phone - Galaxy S3 I535 (Verizon)
Currently on 4.1.1
I535VRBLK3
Kernel Version 3.0.31-381038
I used this guide to root (http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-verizon-galaxy-s3-sch-i535/) and want to install this custom rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028443) as an end product.
Alright, so I had a rooted phone, wanted to get the 4.1.2 pushed update, wouldn't work, and stripped my phone to unrooted, stock ROM with a factory data wipe. So far I've gotten back to rooting my phone, downloading ROM manager, and flashing CWM recovery successfully. However, when I go to reboot into recovery mode, it won't load anything, saying "Unauthorized Software was detected blah blah blah" and then at the top it says "Secure Fail: Kernel".
I've been searching and I can't find anything that makes sense to try, and I don't want to brick my phone. I have no idea what to do from here, so does anyone have any advice or a fix? I can navigate a computer with the best of them, but these androids are throwing me for a loop.
Thanks in advance guys.
You need to make sure the bootloader is unlocked before you can boot into recovery. As long as you have functional root access you can download EZ-Unlock version 1.2 and install it. Then run it and click unlock. If it tells you that you are already unlocked, click lock and then unlock. You can find it various places here on the forums.
Haha, as soon as I ran through that, it worked like a charm thanks for the advice
Help Please!
Eroth said:
Phone - Galaxy S3 I535 (Verizon)
Currently on 4.1.1
I535VRBLK3
Kernel Version 3.0.31-381038
I used this guide to root (http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-verizon-galaxy-s3-sch-i535/) and want to install this custom rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028443) as an end product.
Alright, so I had a rooted phone, wanted to get the 4.1.2 pushed update, wouldn't work, and stripped my phone to unrooted, stock ROM with a factory data wipe. So far I've gotten back to rooting my phone, downloading ROM manager, and flashing CWM recovery successfully. However, when I go to reboot into recovery mode, it won't load anything, saying "Unauthorized Software was detected blah blah blah" and then at the top it says "Secure Fail: Kernel".
I've been searching and I can't find anything that makes sense to try, and I don't want to brick my phone. I have no idea what to do from here, so does anyone have any advice or a fix? I can navigate a computer with the best of them, but these androids are throwing me for a loop.
Thanks in advance guys.
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BigErnM said:
You need to make sure the bootloader is unlocked before you can boot into recovery. As long as you have functional root access you can download EZ-Unlock version 1.2 and install it. Then run it and click unlock. If it tells you that you are already unlocked, click lock and then unlock. You can find it various places here on the forums.
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Sorry to resurrect an older post, but I have the same exact problem as the OP, but I have 4.3 on the S3. I've read in other forums that the bootloader cannot be unlocked on 4.3, and that trying to do so will brick the phone. So what do I do? Shouldn't I still be able to boot into recovery even with a locked bootloader?
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Sorry to resurrect an older post, but I have the same exact problem as the OP, but I have 4.3 on the S3. I've read in other forums that the bootloader cannot be unlocked on 4.3, and that trying to do so will brick the phone. So what do I do? Shouldn't I still be able to boot into recovery even with a locked bootloader?
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In short you don't need to have an unlocked bootloader to enter recovery, but you do need one to install a custom recovery.