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Unrooting

Following the guides in the Development section, if you are to root the TF300T, would simply flashing a new blob file (whether its .17 or .26) remove your root? I am assuming the update formats the /system partition and restores all of the default files. Will this also be a way to restore anything that I remove from the /system partition manually (apks for example)?
I'm not new to Android, but haven't had to deal with blob files or the lack of a custom recovery before.

Well, I can confirm that if you need to unroot your TF300T for any reason, it is a very simple process:
1. Download your desired blob file from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642614
2. Follow method 1 of Wolf's guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
3. Factory reset/wipe data. All stock AFAIK!

Has anyone tried to hit the 'unroot' button in SparkyRoot's app?

Unroot in Sparkyroot is how I unrooted last night. It's quick, easy, and painless.

Unrooting with the sparky root works as well if your not into the ADB thing
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I must have forgotten that Sparkyroot had that button, oh well. At least we know this method works to get back to .17

So just reviving this thread... if I need to take my rooted Pad back to the shop for a replacement (the fitting round the screen seems loose in one bit), I can
1) backup with the Asus Appbackup/Titanium Pro etc
2) click Sparklyroot's unroot button, and
3) do a Factory Reset/Wipe and voila!?
Anything else I should think about?

aliaird said:
So just reviving this thread... if I need to take my rooted Pad back to the shop for a replacement (the fitting round the screen seems loose in one bit), I can
1) backup with the Asus Appbackup/Titanium Pro etc
2) click Sparklyroot's unroot button, and
3) do a Factory Reset/Wipe and voila!?
Anything else I should think about?
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Use voodoo ota root keeper to delete root backup
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ok... everytime i unroot i keep getting superuser back... is that on by default?? I use the delete su backup awith ota rookeeper and then unroot with sparkyroot but it stays rooted...

Very long boot time after root?

I rooted my Infinity a few days ago, and I changed my mind. How the heck do I unroot? I cannot find the answer anywhere...
Before root the boot time was under a minute by far, now it is 3 minutes and 45 seconds...this can't be right.
Anyone know why this is happening or how I can fix it? If not can anyone tell me how to unroot please?
Thanks.

I rooted my tf700 and the boot is like unrooted, under 1 minute.
Have you tried to make a cold reboot?
If you want to unroot, i've used the method described in this post to unroot my previous tf300 before returning it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
It had worked fine.
I've used 'Method 1 - Rooted' instructions.
You have to download the blob corresponding to your tf700 from asus and with adb write it to the tf700

Just remove /system/xbin/su (as root) and uninstall Superuser app, but this is user-based, so I doubt anything on the boot uses root privileges differently just because suddenly you have the binary there.
Are you sure you haven't installed any apps or new firmware lately?

Or just Factory Reset if your really desperate. Root gone.
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jjdevega said:
Or just Factory Reset if your really desperate. Root gone.
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I don't think that a factory reset removes root.
Don't ask me to prove it, i don't want to reinstall my Tf700

htcvidi said:
I don't think that a factory reset removes root.
Don't ask me to prove it, i don't want to reinstall my Tf700
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Correct. Factory reset means wiping the /data partition, for which there is no reason in this case. Re-flashing firmware sometimes wipes /system, sometimes just overwrites the files on it (normally leaving /data intact), which will lead to removing "su" most of the time (Superuser.apk stays in /data, but can be easily uninstalled). If someone has used RootKeeper, it can leave a copy of "su" somewhere on the system partition, too, but can be removed from within the app.

Took the update to JB, but can't get my root back

OK, need someone to tell me what I'm missing please.
Yesterday I was on stock .30 and rooted. This morning I took the JB update. My first boot was OK and I still had root, but when I rebooted, I got stuck in a loop. It kept rebooting after getting to the desktop. I assumed at least one of my apps was causing it, so I used the wipe data function with the power + vol down thing. that wiped everything, including root.
I tried to re-do the debugfs method, but that seems to fail. Strange thing is, if I use adb shell from the computer, I can su - root and get root access. That's how I was able to give read/write access to the data folder where debugfs does its' work. It's just that root check says I'm not rooted. Voodoo OTA has all boxes checked on my root check, except the one that says granted root permissions. The SU file does exist inside /system/xbin
So it's as if the tablet's user just doesn't have permission to do root. I loaded a terminal emulator on the tablet, and tried to su - root that way, and got permission denied. I would normally get the "superuser" popup when doing something like that -
So there's definitely a piece I'm missing. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

reinstall ota rootkeeper and restore root. factory reset doesnt wipe root access you just need to restore it.
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jgaf said:
reinstall ota rootkeeper and restore root. factory reset doesnt wipe root access you just need to restore it.
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Sorry, should have mentioned that I tried that. Attaching a screenshot as to what it looks like. Notice the center checkmark stating "root permission granted" is not checked, and there's no option to restore, only to remove or temp unroot, so it's like, everything is good, except for the actual root permission
Root checker shows red (no access) and root programs like root explorer do not prompt for superuser permission before running as I would expect them to the first time.

Did you run superuser? Did you reboot after running su for the first time?
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Absolutely, more times than I can count. Here's another shot showing I can't execute such but it seems to have global execute...
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Install supersu and not superuser....update the binary ...then try again
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pakure said:
Install supersu and not superuser....update the binary ...then try again
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OK, uninstalled superuser, and installed superSU as you suggested and rebooted the tablet for good measure.
Ran it, and it prompted me, saying su needed updating, said yes do it, came back to me "installation failed", which I honestly expected because for whatever reason, current tablet user cannot get to su, even though it appears permissions said it should.
One other note, earlier I tried to refollow these directions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704209
That is how I rooted when under build .30, no issues at all. This time I hit a snag when trying to push files to /data/local - said I had no permission. now I got around it via ADB by simply typing su - root....root seems to work when I'm in ADB, but it doesn't work via tablet interface. I don't know what I'm missing here....
Just a thought.. I was considering flashing back to .30 using fastboot but I wasn't sure if that would even work. I tried loading the .30 zip into the root of storage and it detected it, as a downgrade even and asked to proceed. When done I was still on 4.1.1 not the older build.
BTW, thank you for taking the time. I really don't mean to be a pain here. I've not had this much trouble before...

Well sh++ This would explain why I couldn't redo the debugfs root process...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27990303
I decided to go have a look at the nexus 7 area since that's native JB and saw that. So' for those just buying this, you might want to root before you update.
Still doesn't explain my problem but at least explains why I can't use the solution that WAS good.
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funnel71 said:
Well sh++ This would explain why I couldn't redo the debugfs root process...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27990303
I decided to go have a look at the nexus 7 area since that's native JB and saw that. So' for those just buying this, you might want to root before you update.
Still doesn't explain my problem but at least explains why I can't use the solution that WAS good.
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I was able to restore my root. See this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30481502#post30481502

I've really messed up now. Set perms wrong for the such that was on the tablet so now can't get root using adb either so unless there is a way to downgrade without root I'm screwed.
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I was so amped to grab JB, that I spaced that the OTA update would break root (i'm rooted but locked bootloader, b/c i was hoping 4.1.1 would come sooner than later!)
I had OTA rootkeeper installed, and while I was a little skeptical as to how easily it would work, it was 1-click simple and I just had to reinstall/update the binaries and reboot. I had the same check mark unchecked, but it worked, was straightforward, etc. It sounds like something got jacked in the JB flash, and I wonder if a full wipe/reset (&downgrade) to 4.04, re-root, then OTA update (using ota rootkeeper to hold root) might work for you?

thesuzukimethod said:
I was so amped to grab JB, that I spaced that the OTA update would break root (i'm rooted but locked bootloader, b/c i was hoping 4.1.1 would come sooner than later!)
I had OTA rootkeeper installed, and while I was a little skeptical as to how easily it would work, it was 1-click simple and I just had to reinstall/update the binaries and reboot. I had the same check mark unchecked, but it worked, was straightforward, etc. It sounds like something got jacked in the JB flash, and I wonder if a full wipe/reset (&downgrade) to 4.04, re-root, then OTA update (using ota rootkeeper to hold root) might work for you?
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I would love to try the downgrade approach as that's the only one left I haven't tried, primarily because I have tried and haven't found a way to do it. If you know how with a locked boot loader then I'd love to hear.
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funnel71 said:
I would love to try the downgrade approach as that's the only one left I haven't tried, primarily because I have tried and haven't found a way to do it. If you know how with a locked boot loader then I'd love to hear.
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sorry, above my pay-grade at this point. I think i was overly optimistic about the "open-ness" of the device/bootloader (my other device is a galaxy nexus, so it's easy to do just about anything). I had a factory wipe or flash/img restore in my mind, but factory wipe wouldnt help (dont thinK), and If a stock 4.04 img exists, pretty sure there is a command set in fastboot that would let you restore using that image, but also pretty (99%) sure that requires an unlocked bootloader.
It sounds like there were a few changes in folder structure in JB that are limiting the root-ability, but my guess is the brainy folks around here will figure that out pretty quick, and JB will be root-able soon.

thesuzukimethod said:
sorry, above my pay-grade at this point. I think i was overly optimistic about the "open-ness" of the device/bootloader (my other device is a galaxy nexus, so it's easy to do just about anything). I had a factory wipe or flash/img restore in my mind, but factory wipe wouldnt help (dont thinK), and If a stock 4.04 img exists, pretty sure there is a command set in fastboot that would let you restore using that image, but also pretty (99%) sure that requires an unlocked bootloader.
It sounds like there were a few changes in folder structure in JB that are limiting the root-ability, but my guess is the brainy folks around here will figure that out pretty quick, and JB will be root-able soon.
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Yes it's the /data folder where the exploit was and is causing the issue. I saw one of the commands was flash all, but I was too scared to try that. I tried the update.zip approach, but it came back with needed files weren't present in the archive.
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funnel71 said:
I would love to try the downgrade approach as that's the only one left I haven't tried, primarily because I have tried and haven't found a way to do it. If you know how with a locked boot loader then I'd love to hear.
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What did you do exactly? Details!
You can try this.... It may work... The worst case is that it just doesn't work. I have not seen a confirmation yet as to whether this method works or not yet.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jcpilpgoeta516e/QTl4TihVq0/Rooting-the-tf300.txt
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calisro said:
What did you do exactly? Details!
You can try this.... It may work... The worst case is that it just doesn't work. I have not seen a confirmation yet as to whether this method works or not yet.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jcpilpgoeta516e/QTl4TihVq0/Rooting-the-tf300.txt
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Oops. This is the whole link. Sorry about that. directions are in there.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jcpilpgoeta516e/tCB-Ep-3YQ
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thesuzukimethod said:
I was so amped to grab JB, that I spaced that the OTA update would break root (i'm rooted but locked bootloader, b/c i was hoping 4.1.1 would come sooner than later!)
I had OTA rootkeeper installed, and while I was a little skeptical as to how easily it would work, it was 1-click simple and I just had to reinstall/update the binaries and reboot. I had the same check mark unchecked, but it worked, was straightforward, etc. It sounds like something got jacked in the JB flash, and I wonder if a full wipe/reset (&downgrade) to 4.04, re-root, then OTA update (using ota rootkeeper to hold root) might work for you?
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If you have a check mark unchecked, you likely have root issues. Which check box?

calisro said:
If you have a check mark unchecked, you likely have root issues. Which check box?
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Sorry - imprecise language on my part.
When I opened up OTA rootkeeper, it showed the same unchecked box (in rootkeeper) as others have mentioned, but I had "restore root" as an option. I did, and had no problems keeping root after updating to JB 4.1.1. OTA. I was using superuser but had checked "OTA survival" in Superuser's options, so I think that's how i kept root (seems like this "survival" option is baked in to Super Su, but a (non-default) option in Superuser).

[Resolved] Understanding what Locked BL w/JB & root did

I just wanted to understand where I am and what happened.
I have a locked boot loader TF300T, it came with .30.
I rooted with the debugfs root process.
I downloaded and ran OTA root keeper,
and saved root.
Later JB was offered to me. I took the update
and lost root. I thought I had to rerun the
debugfs script again, but that doesn't work
in JB.
After a reboot, I re-downloaded and reinstalled
OTA root keeper, and it prompted me to restore
root. After another reboot, root is back.
I'm guessing whatever the debugfs script did
to get root is fixed in 4.1.1, but OTA root
keeper was successful in doing its job.
So I have root again in a locked otherwise
stock TF300T with JB 4.1.1.
Did I do it right?
Do I understand correctly?

If you have a root checker, run it to make sure. Just search for root check in the market. If you still have root, then you are lucky. Many others have lost half or all their root access.
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Results of checker
funnel71 said:
If you have a root checker, run it to make sure. Just search for root check in the market. If you still have root, then you are lucky. Many others have lost half or all their root access.
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Checker reports success

That's pretty cool that you kept it. Don't do a data wipe or you won't be able to get it back without unlocking the bootloader.
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Followup Root on TF300T & 4.1.1 OTA
I'm hoping the nice folks here will figure out
a new way to root for jelly bean eventually.
I personally do not like ASUS's approach
of blacklisting unlocked serial numbers.
Realisticly, while some issues can be
caused by bad flashes. There are still
real hardware failures that should
be covered by warranty regardless
of content.
Loose ports or other obvious deflects,
for example. They would be there stock or
not.
For the time being, I'm staying locked
& rooted. At least I can use root apps
to backup apps and data.

That's pretty good thinking. I feel the same, hence waiting for a stock and lock root solution.
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fuzzynco said:
I'm hoping the nice folks here will figure out
a new way to root for jelly bean eventually.
I personally do not like ASUS's approach
of blacklisting unlocked serial numbers.
Realisticly, while some issues can be
caused by bad flashes. There are still
real hardware failures that should
be covered by warranty regardless
of content.
Loose ports or other obvious deflects,
for example. They would be there stock or
not.
For the time being, I'm staying locked
& rooted. At least I can use root apps
to backup apps and data.
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funnel71 said:
That's pretty good thinking. I feel the same, hence waiting for a stock and lock root solution.
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+1... The desire to upgrade to JB has been eating me up but at only 3 weeks old I want to keep my tf300t locked a little while longer. And I also think the blacklist thing is a poor testament to ASUS's customer support. As a VAR I sold a lot of their product and had few issues, but their attitude toward open source is lame. If I wanted to be treated like an Ipad owner I would have bought an Ipad.
The upgrade bug had me so bad that I did put JB on my SGSII4G since I can restore that without issue. Really was not all that impressed. I agree with what others have said it is a resource hog. I know that is not as big a deal with android but it is getting kind of windoz like (every release is 33% fatter (IMHO). And Flash does have issues with the Bean.
For now I will stay with rooted ICS on the ASUS until I'm comfortable with the reliability or their is a truly safe way to run Bean. Anyone know how to get rid of this annoying upgrade nag screen, besides upgrading?

Need help rooting JB 4.1.1 v10.4.2.20, confused by many tutorials and forum posts

This is my second day at this, I just need something recent and relevant to follow, most tutorials start with having to install device drivers, which Iv done, and then installing Android SDK and fastboot, which is were the problems start, because even though some guides seem recent, once it gets to the SDK installation part, it redirects to a separate, older tutorial, that looks different from what I'm trying to do. I rooted my tf300t last year and it was was so much easier then this. I can get my tablet to boot with the RCK , Android, USB, Wipe option, but after that I'm lost, some tutorials mention unlocking the bootloader, some don't. I keep telling myself its not worth the headache, but as soon as I use my tablet, and see all the ads, pop ups, and bloated apps, I'm back online trying to figure this out.
Iv checked http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1845377 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2105949 but don't know if I'm on the right track, some assistance would be greatly appreciated.

If you are running jb then you have to unlock the bootloader first. You can download the apk from the Asus site. Once you do that, you can use the rooting guide in the general section to flash recovery, then flash root. Part 3 of this guide will help you. Its what I used and I've never looked back -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30516010
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Will that wipe all the data on my tablet? I've been playing with it all day and got quite a few apps and emulators running that I'd rather not lose. Since I'm not rooted yet I can't make a backup using CWM or Titanium Backup first...

Organized_Chaos said:
Will that wipe all the data on my tablet? I've been playing with it all day and got quite a few apps and emulators running that I'd rather not lose. Since I'm not rooted yet I can't make a backup using CWM or Titanium Backup first...
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Check this site! Item one relates to your situation.
Good Luck!

funnel71 said:
If you are running jb then you have to unlock the bootloader first. You can download the apk from the Asus site. Once you do that, you can use the rooting guide in the general section to flash recovery, then flash root. Part 3 of this guide will help you. Its what I used and I've never looked back -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30516010
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Finally got it done, seems to be working and rooted so now I'm happy, thanks for the help its very much appreciated.

Organized_Chaos said:
Will that wipe all the data on my tablet? I've been playing with it all day and got quite a few apps and emulators running that I'd rather not lose. Since I'm not rooted yet I can't make a backup using CWM or Titanium Backup first...
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It shouldn't no. Every time Asus releases an update, I flash it with twrp. I lose root and recovery, but I simply put it right back on. The data you speak of is unaffected during this process.
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