I recently rooted my galaxy s3 (carried by telus) and today I decided to try to install a linux distro onto it. I downloaded linux deploy, gave it permission with super su and attempted to install debian. I got the message "updating environment ...fail" and the install wouldn't work. I tried several other distros too and had the same issue. Afterward, I went into the supersu log and it said the error was "tmp-mksh: <stdin>[1]: /data/local/linux/bin/linuxdeploy: not found".
I'd really like to find a fix for this and any help is appreciated. Also I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this sort of thing so try to keep it simple please.
Thanks in advance.
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So, here's my story. I am trying to gain root access to my Galaxy S II Skyrocket. I see a lot of posts/replies of other people having success with SuperOneClick 2.2 using the zerg exploit but for some reason mine just hangs and doesn't go any further. To kind of backtrack, I was able to root my first Galaxy S II Skyrocket, but then I had charging issues so I exchanged it for a replacement. Now, the replacement will not root. And even with the first one I had a hard time gaining root. It took me several, several attempts to get it working. I don't understand what I'm missing. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Few things...
- Samsung Galaxy S II is currently on stock 2.3.5 with firmware UCKJ2
- USB debugging has been turned on
- Samsung USB drivers have been successfully installed on PC
- Using Windows XP
- Using SuperOneClick 2.2 with zerg exploit
- Tried uninstalling USB drivers and reinstalling
The status one the SuperOneClick is as follows...
Killing ADB server
Starting ADB server
Waiting for device...
That's it. Nothing else beyond that. And on the right hand side it indicates this...
It's keep stating that 'daemon not running... starting in now on port 5037' and it keeps looping and eventually does not move.
I've tried using different methods of rooting this such as Skyrocket-Easy-Root and Doom's EasyRoot 1.0 and the 'daemon not running... starting it now on port 5037' message occurs on those as well.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON because the regular Samsung Galaxy S II and other devices go through just fine. I know it can be done because obviously other users are successful with root and I was too with my first Skyrocket.
is the sdk installed under admin and your running the tools as a user or vice versa? they have to be equal. you could try killing adb and running it again if it is not a permissions thing.
shansmi said:
is the sdk installed under admin and your running the tools as a user or vice versa? they have to be equal. you could try killing adb and running it again if it is not a permissions thing.
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I have not changed anything since the first success of my Skyrocket root. It's weird that it would root the first Skyrocket but not the second one.
I used this one.
http://androidadvices.com/root-samsung-galaxy-s2-sky-rocket-4g-sgh-i727-tutorial/
Solution for "Files not found" and "permission" when trying to run ZergRush
Usually, I do not have a habit of writing on discussion board. But out of sense of gratitude for makers of ZergRush, I felt obliged to share way to get your phone rooted..
My phone is Samsung Galaxy SkyRocket (Android 2.3.5)
Steps:
1. Get instructions and Samsung driver from following site
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...s-ii-skyrocket-on-gingerbread-with-one-click/
2. I used ZergRush root from following location
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sb2HAg&usg=AFQjCNFU6uftUB2XRt8Q0rZC8faCn1PfBA
Now the most important thing of running the Root
1. For windows 7, do NOT double click on the root.bat or any exe file.
2. Open Windows Command prompt in ADMINISTRATIVE MODE, navigate to the batch file.. for example:
D:\Android\DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su>runme.bat
and your root process will start.
Most of the people when try to double click do not have required or correct Environment path settings hence they see the error for files not found!!
Hope this resolves the issue.. Goood luck !!
trying to root
ashque01 said:
Usually, I do not have a habit of writing on discussion board. But out of sense of gratitude for makers of ZergRush, I felt obliged to share way to get your phone rooted..
My phone is Samsung Galaxy SkyRocket (Android 2.3.5)
Steps:
1. Get instructions and Samsung driver from following site
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...s-ii-skyrocket-on-gingerbread-with-one-click/
2. I used ZergRush root from following location
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sb2HAg&usg=AFQjCNFU6uftUB2XRt8Q0rZC8faCn1PfBA
Now the most important thing of running the Root
1. For windows 7, do NOT double click on the root.bat or any exe file.
2. Open Windows Command prompt in ADMINISTRATIVE MODE, navigate to the batch file.. for example:
D:\Android\DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su>runme.bat
and your root process will start.
Most of the people when try to double click do not have required or correct Environment path settings hence they see the error for files not found!!
Hope this resolves the issue.. Goood luck !!
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I still get errors "system cannot find the path specified" and it doesn't work.
ashque01 you put "D:\Android\DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su>runme.bat"
I didn't get that to work until I switch the > to a \ the arrow instead of a backslash makes a difference, beg pardon but I don't know dos very well and I did use the arrow with no success, lol...
Once in the command prompt (you get there by typing exactly that "command prompt" in search bar, after clicking the start button in windows 7) Right click on command prompt to run as administrator.
I put D:\DooMLoRD_v3_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su\runme.bat because that's where I used 7zip to extract it to, in the root of hard drive partition. It ran but with errors and announced done! press any key to continue.
I tried it again by creating a subfolder on the D: partition named android like you did, tried it again, same thing,
Still hoping to get a superuser icon so I can download my root explorer app from the market.
YAY!
I got root.
I told all of about it in that thread I started titled s#%rocket. I did admire what Entrophy remarked about it's hardware being disagreeable, but that was in the i777 thread. I had no business there (mod moved my thread, thank you) as my handset is i727.
I coulda swore that's what about phone said before I started but sure enough when you pull the battery it says i727 right there, can't argue with that, I was just being "elevator up, but door not open"
Beg pardon
androiduser1 said:
So, here's my story. I am trying to gain root access to my Galaxy S II Skyrocket. I see a lot of posts/replies of other people having success with SuperOneClick 2.2 using the zerg exploit but for some reason mine just hangs and doesn't go any further. To kind of backtrack, I was able to root my first Galaxy S II Skyrocket, but then I had charging issues so I exchanged it for a replacement. Now, the replacement will not root. And even with the first one I had a hard time gaining root. It took me several, several attempts to get it working. I don't understand what I'm missing. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Few things...
- Samsung Galaxy S II is currently on stock 2.3.5 with firmware UCKJ2
- USB debugging has been turned on
- Samsung USB drivers have been successfully installed on PC
- Using Windows XP
- Using SuperOneClick 2.2 with zerg exploit
- Tried uninstalling USB drivers and reinstalling
The status one the SuperOneClick is as follows...
Killing ADB server
Starting ADB server
Waiting for device...
That's it. Nothing else beyond that. And on the right hand side it indicates this...
It's keep stating that 'daemon not running... starting in now on port 5037' and it keeps looping and eventually does not move.
I've tried using different methods of rooting this such as Skyrocket-Easy-Root and Doom's EasyRoot 1.0 and the 'daemon not running... starting it now on port 5037' message occurs on those as well.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON because the regular Samsung Galaxy S II and other devices go through just fine. I know it can be done because obviously other users are successful with root and I was too with my first Skyrocket.
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use 2.3 not 2.2
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
I just purchased a Galaxy Tab 8.9 and would like to root it. I have been reading for the past couple of days on how to get my device rooted. I have found instructions on how to root through a PC. I am wondering if the same instructions would work on a Mac. All of the instructions point towards connecting the tab via USB and my mac won't allow it to go into mass storage mode. I have also tried downloading a zip file from another post and when trying to flash it says "signature verification failed." Do I have to use a PC or is there a way that I can use my Mac? I'm super new with Android so any help would be nice. Thanks in advance.
You can install vmware or bootcamp and run Windows to do everything you need.
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moonzbabysh said:
You can install vmware or bootcamp and run Windows to do everything you need.
MoPhoACTV Initiative
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Worked like a champ. Thanks!
Hey guys,
I searched the forum and did not really find an answer, it is probably even a Linux question, but even in the Linux forums i havent found a fix yet;
I installed lilstevies OLife Premium Dualboot on my TF101, everything went well. At the Login screen I can only log on with the "Guest Session" option though, since I never created an user during the installation.
Since I cant do sudo operations with the guest user ("sudo: unable to change sudoers gid: Operation not permitted") I cannot use Ubuntu, since i don't have the root password (because Ubuntu has none?). I already tried a lot of "standard" username/password combinations. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you all in advance!
greg388 said:
Hey guys,
I searched the forum and did not really find an answer, it is probably even a Linux question, but even in the Linux forums i havent found a fix yet;
I installed lilstevies OLife Premium Dualboot on my TF101, everything went well. At the Login screen I can only log on with the "Guest Session" option though, since I never created an user during the installation.
Since I cant do sudo operations with the guest user ("sudo: unable to change sudoers gid: Operation not permitted") I cannot use Ubuntu, since i don't have the root password (because Ubuntu has none?). I already tried a lot of "standard" username/password combinations. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you all in advance!
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during the install when you set up you
Someone with a bit more experience with ubuntu might be able to help more but without root permissions/ access to the recovery console, i dont think your able to create an admin user(might be an exploit or something but i would doubt it). might have to bite the bullet and reinstall(as a last resort)
I'm 99% sure there's no single user mode but there are dirty ways of doing it though... You can try to mount the ubuntu partition in android (mmcblk0p8 if I remember correctly), and manually edit the passwd/shadow (make sure to back up first). I'm not that familiar with ubuntu's way of handling users through sudo but you should be able to chroot to your ubuntu partition then adduser/usermod/whatever or just modify sudoers directly from android to allow guests, boot into it, login, add a normal user etc.. then remove guest from sudoers.
I'm sure there's other ways to do it, just nothing "clean" per say like a single user mode or a rescue mode.
Hi, I have successfully installed Kali Linux on my LG G3 using Linux Deploy and VNC viewer. I am successfully able to use everything, but I am relatively new to Linux. Still, I was able to switch to root in the terminal. I also tried creating a new account, giving it root access, and then switching to it, which I was able to do, again only in the terminal. However, even if I had root access in the terminal (confirmed by "whoami"), it seemed that I did not have any other root privileges. For example, everything, including the desktop, was read only. I tried switching users using the gui and that did not work at all. I also tried to open the root folder under computer and I wasn't able to do that either. I have tried changing the preferences in linux deploy to log me in as username "root," but I think even then I am logged in as a user that is named root... not the actual root administrator. If anyone could offer some guidance with this situation that would be great. I have spent a lot of time searching google and more to find the solution to this problem, but I haven't had any success. Thanks in advance.
I'd also like to add that some normal commands were not accessible in the terminal even though it said that I had root privileges. Therefore, I could not get done what I would like to even if I were to do everything in the terminal .
jackfitz5 said:
Hi, I have successfully installed Kali Linux on my LG G3 using Linux Deploy and VNC viewer. I am successfully able to use everything, but I am relatively new to Linux. Still, I was able to switch to root in the terminal. I also tried creating a new account, giving it root access, and then switching to it, which I was able to do, again only in the terminal. However, even if I had root access in the terminal (confirmed by "whoami"), it seemed that I did not have any other root privileges. For example, everything, including the desktop, was read only. I tried switching users using the gui and that did not work at all. I also tried to open the root folder under computer and I wasn't able to do that either. I have tried changing the preferences in linux deploy to log me in as username "root," but I think even then I am logged in as a user that is named root... not the actual root administrator. If anyone could offer some guidance with this situation that would be great. I have spent a lot of time searching google and more to find the solution to this problem, but I haven't had any success. Thanks in advance.
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There is not a specific XDA forum for Kali Linux.
You might find some help in Ubuntu Touch General
or [APP] Linux Deploy by AbuYahya
Which S3? SGH-I747 or I9300, I9305 ...
Good day everyone, have been trying to run linux on this device for some time now without luck , for some reason it wont let me launch any of these options. Read that I needed a permissive kernel and used Civz kernel for lollipop 5 and when using complete linux installer it just brings a gray screen with a message saying that theres no d-bus, and when I try to run linux deploy for ubuntu it fails on Vnc and ssh.
Any help really appreciated, thanks a lot.