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[Q] Cannot Root/Unlock Bootloader Rogers HTC One XL Rogers SW# 1.94.631.3

I cannot for the life of my get root access to this phone, its a refurb shipped to me as a warranty replacement, so its basically new, with all the OTA updates already applied, I have tried all the links to root, like the One Clicks etc, even tried the One_X_ATT_All-In-One_Kit_v1.1, when I try to do it manually, I used ADB Shell, and it connects ok, I can see files etc on the system partition, but when I type SU, it says file not found, when I copied SU files to the SD card and tried to run it from there, it says permission denied. This phone seems to be locked right down!
Android Version : 4.0.3 Full build number is 1.94.631.3 CL76063 release-keys
I have tried everything I could think of, and have searched the forums, I just cannot find a solution... Any help would be appreciated...
-NS

n8dog89 said:
I cannot for the life of my get root access to this phone, its a refurb shipped to me as a warranty replacement, so its basically new, with all the OTA updates already applied, I have tried all the links to root, like the One Clicks etc, even tried the One_X_ATT_All-In-One_Kit_v1.1, when I try to do it manually, I used ADB Shell, and it connects ok, I can see files etc on the system partition, but when I type SU, it says file not found, when I copied SU files to the SD card and tried to run it from there, it says permission denied. This phone seems to be locked right down!
Android Version : 4.0.3 Full build number is 1.94.631.3 CL76063 release-keys
I have tried everything I could think of, and have searched the forums, I just cannot find a solution... Any help would be appreciated...
-NS
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unlock your bootloader through HTC-Dev (all other models)
flash twrp
flash superuser from recovery downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip

None of the AT&T root solutions apply to you, or any other carrier version of the One X/XL except AT&T. For the AT&T version, we need to have root in order to spoof the CID and get bootloader unlock via HTCDev.com. This is because AT&T is blocking HTC for allowing the bootloader to be unlocked (and the only carrier to do so).
You can skip all that and just unlock the bootloader via HTCDev.com (as mentioned in the reply above). Then install custom recovery (TWRP) and flash SU to achieve root. Or alternately, flash a rooted ROM.

absolutelygrim said:
unlock your bootloader through HTC-Dev (all other models)
flash twrp
flash superuser from recovery downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
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So what you are saying is that I do not have to change my CID or root before unlocking boot loader?
I got my identifier token and am going to submit it... I just saw another response, looks like I have it easy and was looking way too hard... the first time I rooted my phone I DID have to spoof my CID etc, thus the confusion...
Thanks guys!

n8dog89 said:
So what you are saying is that I do not have to change my CID or root before unlocking boot loader?
I got my identifier token and am going to submit it... I just saw another response, looks like I have it easy and was looking way too hard... the first time I rooted my phone I DID have to spoof my CID etc, thus the confusion...
Thanks guys!
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Unfortunately like it has been for days, HTCDev.com/bootloader site is just not working... :crying:
Thanks again guys.

n8dog89 said:
Unfortunately like it has been for days, HTCDev.com/bootloader site is just not working... :crying:
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I can confirm that, this site still not working.
Edited at 15:10 :
At last! Web site awake and I can unlock bootloader.

Bumping. Would unlocking bootloader and flashing superuser from recovery work on the new OTA JB update?

[Q] How to root TF700 Jelly Bean from Linux without unlocking?

Hi all, I have been looking all over the place and have not yet found a solution.
I have a TF700 that I have upgraded to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.1 Build number JRO03C.WW_epad-10.4.4.25-20121228) and would like to root it so that it can use LinuxOnAndroid. There are two constraints: (1) I do not want to unlock the boot loader if I can avoid doing so; (2) I do not have any computers that run Microsoft Windows, I just have openSUSE 12.2 and Kubuntu 12.04 on various machines.
What do I need to do to achieve root? I can install and run the Android SDK on any of my Linux machines, but what am I supposed to do next?

The existing root exploits work only for ICS - so you need to do the following:
- downgrade to firmware 9.4.5.30 (ICS)
- use the debugfs exploit to root it. If you find only a Windows version, then read the batch file and do the steps manually - it is not complicated.
- install and use OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root.
- upgrade to JB by applying "dlpkgfile" incremental updates one by one until you are back at 10.4.4.25.
You will find detailed info about these steps in the sticky threads in the General and Development subforums.

_that said:
The existing root exploits work only for ICS - so you need to do the following:
- downgrade to firmware 9.4.5.30 (ICS)
- use the debugfs exploit to root it. If you find only a Windows version, then read the batch file and do the steps manually - it is not complicated.
- install and use OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root.
- upgrade to JB by applying "dlpkgfile" incremental updates one by one until you are back at 10.4.4.25.
You will find detailed info about these steps in the sticky threads in the General and Development subforums.
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Thanks! Before I search through the sticky posts in both subforums for detailed info, can you please quickly tell me two things:
(1) At any of the 4 steps you have listed above, will I lose all the data on my TF700? In other words, will I need to perform some sort of backup before I start?
(2) Do any of the 4 steps you have listed above unlock the bootloader, or require the bootloader to be unlocked?
Thanks!

penguian said:
(1) At any of the 4 steps you have listed above, will I lose all the data on my TF700? In other words, will I need to perform some sort of backup before I start?
(2) Do any of the 4 steps you have listed above unlock the bootloader, or require the bootloader to be unlocked?
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1. A backup is always recommended. I don't know if downgrading from JB to ICS requires you to wipe data.
2. No. If you want to unlock the bootloader, rooting is easier, but you lose warranty. The "downgrade - debugfs - dlpkgfile" method works without unlocking.

[Q] HTC sensation XE, ROOT problem..

Hi.
I recently started to see if I could root my phone, but no succes..
I can't seem to unlock my phone using the HTCDev site. When the CMD program try's to load the unlock.bin I get a error that the installation failed.
I would love some help here on how to bypass that!
I currently run the latest android that came with the phone, this would be my first time rooting.
It's not bought with a provider so that should't be a problem..
I would like preferably run Android 4.3.
Is there ANY good RECENT tutorial showing how to unlock my phone and root to 4.3? All other tutorials I found were not very well understandable..

Basxt said:
Hi.
I recently started to see if I could root my phone, but no succes..
I can't seem to unlock my phone using the HTCDev site. When the CMD program try's to load the unlock.bin I get a error that the installation failed.
I would love some help here on how to bypass that!
I currently run the latest android that came with the phone, this would be my first time rooting.
It's not bought with a provider so that should't be a problem..
I would like preferably run Android 4.3.
Is there ANY good RECENT tutorial showing how to unlock my phone and root to 4.3? All other tutorials I found were not very well understandable..
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I have to check firstly, do you have fastboot and adb installed on your computer and working properly? If not follow this guide: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/
Unfortunately you cannot proceed any further without unlocking your phone. The instructions given in the HTC Dev website are very clear and precise (because you are trying to unlock an OEM phone, you MUST follow the instructions given in the HTC Dev website). If you follow the instructions correctly, you will be able to unlock your phone. Installing customs ROMs and Kernels only come after unlocking (and there are a lot of tutorials online that teach you).

Mandatory unlocked bootloader for rooting?

Hi everyone.
I'm thinking in buying a phone from CAT (CAT S42) and I'm not sure if I can unlock its bootloader. But I've seen on another forum that the CAT S31 has root available for it through Magisk, and I didn't see anyone mentioning having unlocked the bootloader. S42 has a MediaTek chipset and S31 has a Qualcomm chipset, if that helps.
So my question is: is unlocking bootloader MANDATORY to root a device? Can I just run a custom recovery, root the phone with that, and then the recovery gets overwritten on system boot? Or can I root through USB debugging without even needing custom recovery?
The CAT S31 I mentioned was rooted with Magisk, and as I said, I didn't see anyone talking about unlocked bootloader. But I also read Magisk changes the boot partition and the bootloader checks if it was modified. So I'm a bit confused with this too. It's also written that MiracleBox was used and I'm not sure that's the reason that I'm getting confused or not (I had never heard of this tool until now).
A set of software for obtaining ROOT privileges.
Driver_Qualcom_m.7z (9.27 MB) [link]
Enter HS QDSLoad 9008 mode from Vol + and Vol- off state and connect without releasing to USB
MiracleBox [link]
The Boot image is processed on the phone by the Magisk manager, then uploaded to the phone using Miracle again from the computer.
MagiskManager-v7.3.2.apk (2.71 MB) [link]
Just in case,
Backup firmware without / Data partition
Attached files
XposedInstaller_3.1.5-Magisk.apk (2.96 MB) [link]
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How may they have done that?
I'm sorry, I don't understand a lot of the root requirements part, since I was lucky and my 1st phone had the bootloader unlocked alreaedy for some reason and the second was as easy as writting a single command. But about this phone there's almost nothing and I'd like to know the general about this. If it's really necessary to have the bootloader unlocked, for example. And if it's not, then what methods can I use with it still locked?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello DADi590,
Unfortunately I can't answer all of your questions about S42. I have one of them and I am also looking for and confused with root procedures. But I can tell you that unlock boot loader was just a matter of get developer options on (tapping version # 10 times), and inside you can toogle lock/unlock bootloader...
How to root it safely is what I do not know yet.
good luck!

@DADi590
Rooting the Android OS of a device in practice is nothing more than adding the su cmdlet known from Linux OS to the Android OS. To root Android OS in no case requires device's bootloader must get unlocked to do so.
FYI: The bootloader of an Android device is comparable to the BIOS of a Windows computer.

Actually, after some time I decided to leave CAT alone and buy a Blackview one. If I'd break the phone, at least it wouldn't be as expensive as the CAT S42 (I bought a BV9500 - not Pro or Plus, the normal one).
Since then (with help of adventures with a tablet of mine) I've learned some more things. One of them I was suspecting and was now confirmed (thank you @jwoegerbauer) which is to root the device, just a binary file is needed to be on the correct place: su. I didn't know it was on other Linux OSes though. Interesting!
So the idea is that just a recovery must be installed to root a device. That's it and nothing else, I believe. To install the recovery is the part where one might need to unlock the bootloader - or not, if the chipset manufacturer left a tool to write partitions directly, like MediaTek or Rockchip. On these 2 it's possible to write partitions directly with a locked bootloader (this means the bootloader on my 1st phone was and still is probably locked - like my BV9500 one is, and I flashed various partitions on it already, one of them, a TWRP recovery).
This explanation is for anyone else like me who would have this question. Bootloader is just to flash partitions and I think run modified ROMs too, but not too sure about that (I never use custom ROMs). [Btw, if I said something wrong, I'm happy to be corrected!]
armandrix said:
Hello DADi590,
Unfortunately I can't answer all of your questions about S42. I have one of them and I am also looking for and confused with root procedures. But I can tell you that unlock boot loader was just a matter of get developer options on (tapping version # 10 times), and inside you can toogle lock/unlock bootloader...
How to root it safely is what I do not know yet.
good luck!
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I believe I asked this because I prefer that it's not required to unlock a bootloader to do stuff. If you screw the phone somehow with the bootloader locked and there's no tool to flash partitions on it and you must be on fastboot with an unlocked bootloader or whatever, you just bricked the phone. And I'd prefer that not to happen. That's why I chose to buy phones that don't need me to unlock the bootloader to do anything on them. That might mean I can't ever brick them (at least I never bricked my 1st phone with the various things I did on it which I later found out not being recommended at all XD).

I've unlocked the bootloader on my Cat S42. Can be done.

Can we get help rooting a VLE5 Poblano Hot Pepper

Hello. Looking at different forums for answers on this subject, I've found many people who also want to root their Hot Pepper VLE5 devices. I really want to root this thing, and in most forums instead of answering the question, people point out that this device is cheap and not worth rooting. I have tried ADB root, which returns with something like "cannot root production builds", and so I went to see how to change that. Spoiler, that also requires root. Then I saw the push/pull command and SuperSU tutorial, but once again you need root to do that, and to be honest, why would you put that on your device if you already have root?? I'm not exactly sure about how the twrp and magisk stuff works but from what I've seen those also require some kind of super user access or something. I have unlocked the bootloader with ADB, which is one problem out of the way, but I'm running out of options and need some help with it, if anyone wants to help, that is. I need root on this because it is currently the only device I have, besides a laptop made for Windows Vista running 7 Ultimate on it (I have a better PC, just not with me), and I want to do WiFi pentesting and other things because I'm very interested in cyber security and such and it's becoming difficult to find anymore help with this. I really am not concerned with the specs limiting the usage of the device, I just want a solution and there's many others I have found with the same issue.
Thank you for your time.

Only devices running Android of build type ENG and/or USERDEBUG can get rooted, AFAIK.
Only devices running a properly rooted Android can apply command "adb root" what allows you to write to device's /system partition.
To unlock device's bootloader you have to apply the appropriate Fastboot commands: You can't unlock the bootloader via ADB. At least I never have heard or read that this would be possible.

jwoegerbauer said:
Only devices running Android of build type ENG and/or USERDEBUG can get rooted, AFAIK.
Only devices running a properly rooted Android can apply command "adb root" what allows you to write to device's /system partition.
To unlock device's bootloader you have to apply the appropriate Fastboot commands: You can't unlock the bootloader via ADB. At least I never have heard or read that this would be possible.
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It allowed me to unlock it with ADB or Fastboot or something I forget, it was something via the command line

PulseJaymes said:
It allowed me to unlock it with ADB or Fastboot or something I forget, it was something via the command line
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1. https://android.tutorials.how/adb-fastboot-installation/
2.
Unrelated, i just sent a DM to user diplomatic asking/offering a low bounty for sharing their mediatek temp-root exploit... They has already posted for other CPU architectures (incl armv8), but not the armv71, which iiuc is what the VLE5 runs on.
Idk diplomatic hasnt been active in a couple months so we'll see if they respond.

jwoegerbauer said:
Only devices running Android of build type ENG and/or USERDEBUG can get rooted, AFAIK.
Only devices running a properly rooted Android can apply command "adb root" what allows you to write to device's /system partition.
To unlock device's bootloader you have to apply the appropriate Fastboot commands: You can't unlock the bootloader via ADB. At least I never have heard or read that this would be possible.
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@jwoegerbauer
Thanks for the info.
Sounds like the OP did use Fastboot commands.
Their OP question was on rooting... I have the exact same device, so am wondering:
If I unlocked the bootloader (via Fastboot tool commandline),
Can i then break the stock boot image to either:
A.) replace it (eg. with Lineage OS), and/or
B.) extract and patch the existing stock ROM?
(Note, the mgfr oem does not provide any updates nor firmware images, neither ota nor otherwise of any kind.
So i have to work strictly w what is on the device.
Another Q:
If i replace the stock rom w lineage and cannot backup the stock rom first.... Will i need to worry about drivers for Android (eg. wifi/bluetooth chips, GPU, etc.) ? I'm used to working w windows or linux, is why i ask..)

while I have no experiance with qualcomm devices, the procedure is near identical to mediatek devices, so to back up your system partition just boot into EDL mode and read the flash using a qualcomm flashing tool. Then, unpack the system image throw in a su binary under /system/sbin/ repack it and flash it!
it's optional to then install magisk or supersu for a root manager for security.
That's atleast how I mangled my cellphone and did unspeakable things to the system!

I just got this phone using it as a backup right now till I can fix my other phone so I'm assuming nobody got it rooted?

I found this VLE5 if this helps anybody I haven't tried it yet but I see the VLE5 on there