Just finished up posting a video on rooting with the new OTA updates of Gingerbread 2.3.6. Let me know if you need help. Read the show notes first and backup everything!
Dave
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzJE...xt=C326a0c8UDOEgsToPDskJD2AQiktg6frnsdEWSNuJH
Channel:
www.youtube.com/kraisydave
Thank you for this Sir!
This will help for when I obtain root on my bro-in-law's D.C.
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Technically speaking, you don't have to load an entire OS ROM via ODIN.
All you really have to do is download the SuperUser Pack, install CWM, flash the SuperUser Pack in CWM, and then you'd be rooted.
Then, once you're rooted you would then go into Root Explorer, find a file called "install_recovery.sh" in /system/etc and then change the permissions of the file so that it doesn't have Executable permissions, and then go back to install CWM (again) and you'll have permanent CWM.
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Hey everyone. Just got the Samsung Nexus S... and I've got a question.
I've read on these forums that the OTA makes it so you have to flash CWM recovery everytime you want to reboot into recovery to flash a ROM and that it's more difficult to root.
Should I flash the OTA then root or root prior to OTA?
Thanks in advance.
m00n
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You should get the OTA before you root and it is very easy to make the root stick. I did it with root explorer but I heard you can do it without it.
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tominater12 said:
You should get the OTA before you root and it is very easy to make the root stick. I did it with root explorer but I heard you can do it without it.
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Which method did you use to root. And how did you manage to use root explore to get root access when root explorer needs root access first in order to operate? Thanks for your response.
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No after you root you can use root explorer to make the recovery stick and there are like 5 guides on how to root on every OS in the android development sub-section. (They are stickied)
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Which method did you use to root. And how did you manage to use root explore to get root access when root explorer needs root access first in order to operate? Thanks for your response.
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Thanks again for your response and for the clarification about using root explorer. I have read the stickies regarding rooting the phone, and because there are a few, I was wondering which method you used. I've read that superboot is the easiest and that you can rename a particular system file so the recovery sticks. Thanks again for your response.
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m00nshake said:
Thanks again for your response and for the clarification about using root explorer. I have read the stickies regarding rooting the phone, and because there are a few, I was wondering which method you used. I've read that superboot is the easiest and that you can rename a particular system file so the recovery sticks. Thanks again for your response.
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Get the OTA.
Apply it.
Boot up to make sure everything is ok. Then boot to bootloader
fastboot oem unlock, confirm it, wipes everything including your internal sd.
flash clockwork mod recovery.
go to clockwork mod recovery from bootloader menu.
mount "internal sd" copy the su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip you downloaded (from the guide) to your internal sd.
unmount internal sd.
mount /system
flash the su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip file.
reboot phone as normal.
login to your gmail account. go to market, download a rooted app like titanium backup free version, and also download rom manager, and buy/get root explorer.
install all those make sure super user is granted and works.
use root explorer to rename/delete the file in: /etc/recovery.sh file or whatever it's actually called.
go to rom manager, and flash the latest clockworkmod recovery (3.0.0.5)
turn off phone and boot to recovery and make sure it's clockwork mod 3.0.0.5, if it is, you're set.
Very helpful post, nxt. Thank you very much.
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Get the OTA.
Apply it.
Boot up to make sure everything is ok. Then boot to bootloader
fastboot oem unlock, confirm it, wipes everything including your internal sd.
flash clockwork mod recovery.
go to clockwork mod recovery from bootloader menu.
mount "internal sd" copy the su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip you downloaded (from the guide) to your internal sd.
unmount internal sd.
mount /system
flash the su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip file.
reboot phone as normal.
login to your gmail account. go to market, download a rooted app like titanium backup free version, and also download rom manager, and buy/get root explorer.
install all those make sure super user is granted and works.
use root explorer to rename/delete the file in: /etc/recovery.sh file or whatever it's actually called.
go to rom manager, and flash the latest clockworkmod recovery (3.0.0.5)
turn off phone and boot to recovery and make sure it's clockwork mod 3.0.0.5, if it is, you're set.
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Don't you need the android sdk?
tominater12 said:
Don't you need the android sdk?
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Yes, you need to have the Android SDK properly installed and you're able to do a 'fastboot devices' command properly and your Serial number comes up.
This may seem like a basic question to you guys.
I work in an industry where our emails our monitored.
We now have the ability to get emails on android phones instead of only being able to use blackberry.
The email is transmitted securely by an app called GOOD.
GOOD will not work on rooted phones.
Can I root & remove bloatware & then unroot ? Or does it all come back?
I assume the phone has to be rooted to run a custom ROM?
Apologies if these are basic questions
Check out this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255214
The steps to follow would be to:
1) Install clockworkmod recovery using the one-click recovery flasher that tga gunmann has posted in the development section.
2) Download the 2 zips that jboxer posted in the thread I linked to above and save them to the sdcard on your phone
3) Using clockworkmod recovery flash the root zip and then reboot into Android.
4) Use Root Explorer or some other file explorer with root access and get rid of whatever bloatware you don't want.
5) Reboot into clockworkmod recovery and flash the unroot zip.
6) Reboot phone
That will allow you root access to make any system changes and then unroot the phone to remove su privileges.
Yes u can root and remove bloat with titanium back up then unroot and then the bloat will still be gone. Also I believe u can unroot certain roms. Not sure
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thanks for your help
NP. Keep us updated? Everything work?
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I am about to get good next week hopefully , will post back.
I wonder why it wouldn't work on rooted phone's though?
It detects the presence of the su binary among other things and refuses to run.
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I wonder why it wouldn't work on rooted phone's though?
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Rooted flashed rebelrom all is fine but still cannot access root in ANY file Brower , I've install supersu, updated, uninstall and installed again still can't get root access.
Had this problem with all roms I've used.
I need root acess!
Despite being first post I'm not a noob
Use other forums just this its the best place to be.
Any help would be appreciated.
Try re flashing supersu or superuser zip in cwm.
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is it just file browser or other apps too? have you tested with titanium? whose method did you use to obtain root?
Updated SU, on the thrid go root access fully granted!!
Thanks for help, i ended up flashing from zip
Crazy stuff like this will happen when flashing roms. For the most part making sure you update the su binary before using root apps helps btw
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My wifes S3 is rooted but, stock and removed some bloat. She tried to do the OTA update and it downloaded but, failed of course. I have changed the OTA cert file name so it shouldnt allow OTA updates any longer. But, now it seems nightly it reboots into CWM to install the OTA update. What do I need to do to get that to stop?
This was the tips that someone gave me.
1. Use Titanium Backup to delete/uninstall SDM
2. Using a file explorer (e.g., Root Explorer), go to system/etc/security and change "Otacert.zip" to "Otacerts.zip.bak"
3. Using a file explorer, go to cache/fota and delete the file in there
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This was the tips that someone gave me.
1. Use Titanium Backup to delete/uninstall SDM
2. Using a file explorer (e.g., Root Explorer), go to system/etc/security and change "Otacert.zip" to "Otacerts.zip.bak"
3. Using a file explorer, go to cache/fota and delete the file in there
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I had step 2 done but, will do 1 & 3 thanks!
For me the easiest was step one haven't had another update message since
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the OTA won't install because of cwm. The OTA does not know how to use it and causes it to fail.
If you want use Odin and flash the stock recovery and it will install just fine. Otherwise just freeze the app causing the update to download. I forgot the apps name at the moment but a simple search will reveal it name.
As for the update it self, its prolly just an updated modem. You can download thos in the development section and flash them in cwm.
Hope this helps out.
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Hi, I need your help.
I have a Nexus S and it was ICS...
I rooted it to change a app-data which saves chat-logs.
But after have been upgraded to Jelly Bean, there's still the Super User App on menu but I have no permission to the system data with Root Explorer, so I can't back up the log anymore.
Is there any possibility to 'reroot' it or change the kernel so I can get to the system data folder to back the log up?
I tried to 'root again' with JB superuser.zip in Recovery Mode, but the phone broke it up at the end...
Thank you!
Just use one of the rooting guides in the dev section that works with JB.
just flash supersu from recovery.
imo its a better and simple super user app.
no offense.
here is a link from chainfire http://download.chainfire.eu/282/SuperSU/CWM-SuperSU-v0.98.zip