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Can't seem to find an answer to this root question. Little help please

I rooted my wife's Inspire 4g using SuperOneClick and all went well...busybox and Superuser were installed on the phone. I enabled non-market apps and even installed a few but today I dl'd Titanium backup and attempted to backup her stuff so I could proceed with modded roms and the root permission was denied and Superuser is missing. I dl's root checker and there is no root or busybox now....any help would be appreciated
Thank you !!!
P.S. Can I just use SOC again to try and re-root the phone or is there something else that im missing going on?

Not sure if this will work, but it's worth a shot. Use ROM Manager to download and install the latest Super User (Download ROM>>Extras). If ROM Manager doesn't work either, you can just download the latest SU from my dropbox here. It's a .zip file that you flash in recovery mode.

henrybravo said:
Not sure if this will work, but it's worth a shot. Use ROM Manager to download and install the latest Super User (Download ROM>>Extras). If ROM Manager doesn't work either, you can just download the latest SU from my dropbox here. It's a .zip file that you flash in recovery mode.
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OP, once you get Su on there, you may be able to get busybox on by way of titanium backup. It's my assumption that the two are separate entities... Getting Su doesn't automatically give you busybox, I don't think, but TiBU has an option for installing a "known working busybox," after you push its "problems" button, but you need to get Su on there first, I would think.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't SuperOneClick only provide temporary root? Once you reboot root is gone. Use acehack kit or bubbys simple one click for permanent root
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cdshepherd said:
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't SuperOneClick only provide temporary root? Once you reboot root is gone. Use acehack kit or bubbys simple one click for permanent root
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You are correct. SOC on;y provides temp root. No S-Off is attained so no rom can be flashed...

cdshepherd said:
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't SuperOneClick only provide temporary root? Once you reboot root is gone. Use acehack kit or bubbys simple one click for permanent root
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I can confirm this 100%. Before I rooted my phone with the ace hack kit, I used soc to enable installing from unknown sources. It temp rooted my phone, also installing busybox and su. Once I rebooted my phone, it was as stock as can be again, with bb and su gone. This is normal for soc op, since it doesn't have the ability to perma root the phone.
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just use hack kit or flash rooted rom after one click. hack kit is much better with more options and so easy now with 11

lost root after upgrading to 4.4.2

hi
this morning i have received the OTA, i ran it and it successfully updated to 4.4.2 however i no longer have root access.
so do i have to redo everything again (backup everything and reboot again) or is there any quick way to fix this?
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its like no one searches anymore...
just reflash a custom recovery and then flash supersu.zip again.

redjersey said:
hi
this morning i have received the OTA, i ran it and it successfully updated to 4.4.2 however i no longer have root access.
so do i have to redo everything again (backup everything and reboot again) or is there any quick way to fix this?
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Of course you lost root. That's normal. Just re-root. How did you root before?

jd1639 said:
Of course you lost root. That's normal. Just re-root. How did you root before?
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bet he used a toolkit.

Zepius said:
bet he used a toolkit.
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I'm guessing too.

Shoulda just flashed su zip after flashing the update then reboot
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I was using this method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3beFx-3Ic4
to root my nexus 5.

redjersey said:
I was using this method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3beFx-3Ic4
to root my nexus 5.
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Use this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47025283

installed supersu from google play, now it's fine

redjersey said:
installed supersu from google play, now it's fine
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I'm a bit surprised that installing the app from the market fixed it..... maybe I am missing something... LOL

Zepius said:
bet he used a toolkit.
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hell guys, why be snobs?
ive been around here for many years, had many, many devices, probably a hundred roms, and I use the toolkit because I find it easier...and have had no major problems.
so
After rooting with the toolkit, SuperSU was not showing up as an app. Installing it via play store worked for me too... - it asked if I wanted to update binaries, I chose normal instead of via twrp, and after doing that and a reboot, all is good...
cheers
Mark.

redjersey said:
installed supersu from google play, now it's fine
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If you accepted an OTA you will have to re-root manually or with the tool kit you originally used.
You can't simply install SuperSU from the Play Store and regain root. Sure the app will install (anyone can do this) but the binaries will be absent (i.e. no root).
You can test this by opening SuperSU. When you open it, it will tell you if it's working correctly.
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How to root 4.4.4???

Any ideas?

apeas2 said:
Any ideas?
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After I did Odin. I tried to fastboot flash recovery and it got stuck at [waiting for device] so I am stumped on what to do LOL.

Can I go back to 4.4.2 and reinstall towelroot?
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apeas2 said:
Can I go back to 4.4.2 and reinstall towelroot?
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Honestly idk. Have you tried towel root on 4.4.4?

Towelroot didn't work on 4.4.4. Just reflashed 4.4.2 and towelroot is now working again. I guess I will just wait for Lolipop before I trip knox!

I did CF root that was done on NE5. Everything went fine for me. Just to try, I flashed the NE5 4-1 boot. But it hung on Sprint screen. Ran my backup and I'm good. Just have to manually go to rrecovery. No worries. Though, not concerned about knox.
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As far as I understand CF Auto Root will work on this. Yes, it trips Knox... but it does give root.

I'm on Nk4. Will cf auto root work?

Yes ,i just root my with cf root

CF-auto root on NK4
coolman9999 said:
Yes ,i just root my with cf root
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I must be doing something wrong. It froze half way through when I tried it

twynn said:
I must be doing something wrong. It froze half way through when I tried it
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You could Odin Philz Touch recovery and then flash superSU.

Comet1966 said:
You could Odin Philz Touch recovery and then flash superSU.
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Yeah was hoping for full root

twynn said:
Yeah was hoping for full root
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What's a "full root"?

Unlocked bootloader I think

twynn said:
Unlocked bootloader I think
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Oh, you haven't done that? I forgot about that step, and forgot how to do it. I can do it to any nexus device but not Samsung.

CF-ROOT worked on NE5 but not for me on NK4.

twynn said:
CF-ROOT worked on NE5 but not for me on NK4.
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I odin tarball from Rwico finish reboot then odin CF auto root reboot and check to see my phone root wala it root then odin flash philz recovery , that what I did .

Tahde said:
I did CF root that was done on NE5. Everything went fine for me. Just to try, I flashed the NE5 4-1 boot. But it hung on Sprint screen. Ran my backup and I'm good. Just have to manually go to rrecovery. No worries. Though, not concerned about knox.
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So you got your sm-t807p rooted? If so, can you please share how I've been dying to get mine rooted!

shanda5303 said:
So you got your sm-t807p rooted? If so, can you please share how I've been dying to get mine rooted!
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No. My S5.
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Tahde said:
No. My S5.
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Oh darn it, thanks for the quick reply though.

[Q] superSu help

Whenever superSu asks for permission to run a root app my screen becomes unresponsive. Timer runs out and i am not able to apply grant permission. Help. This didnt use to happen when i was earlier rooted with towelroot. Right now also i ised towelroot

Have you tried re-flashing the supersu zip?

jameson21 said:
Have you tried re-flashing the supersu zip?
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Yes. Didnt work.
Btw by reflash the zip file you mean reinstall it from pkay store, right?

Pardon the ignorance. Just found out that flashing a zip file and installing apps from play store are 2 different things.
Well my bootloader is locked and neither do i have a custom recovery installed. So flashing doesnt seem to be an option right now.. If i am not missing anything.

Are you running 5.0? If so how the heck did you root with towelroot? AFAIK you can not root 5.0 that way. Maybe that is a problem.
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frenziedfemale said:
Are you running 5.0? If so how the heck did you root with towelroot? AFAIK you can not root 5.0 that way. Maybe that is a problem.
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No no. I am on kitkat only

Tried reinstalling it. This is what came up. I am on android 4.4.4 btw

You need to flash the supersu zip using fastboot:
teamandroid. com/2014/06/19/root-nexus-5-android-444-ktu84p-kitkat/2/ (you're going to have to fix that link because I have under 10 posts so the forum won't let me post..)
Additionally you need to have an unlocked bootloader

jameson21 said:
You need to flash the supersu zip using fastboot:
teamandroid. com/2014/06/19/root-nexus-5-android-444-ktu84p-kitkat/2/ (you're going to have to fix that link because I have under 10 posts so the forum won't let me post..)
Additionally you need to have an unlocked bootloader
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Why is it happening now? Didnt use to happen earlier..

You say you were rooted ...why did you re-root? It looks like you are no longer rooted. Did you do an update or anything?
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frenziedfemale said:
You say you were rooted ...why did you re-root? It looks like you are no longer rooted. Did you do an update or anything?
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I was rooted. I unrooted because i thought it was required to update to lollipop. But i dont have any intention to update to L for now.

rahul9five said:
I was rooted. I unrooted because i thought it was required to update to lollipop. But i dont have any intention to update to L for now.
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To get root again either flash the latest CF Auto Root in fastboot or flash the latest superSU.zip in recovery or flash a pre-rooted custom rom in a custom recovery.

cannot root my tab after hard reset!!!!!

Hello
I have recently decided to hard reset my tab. I backs up everything with titanium backup (I had root at that time). But after that I thought if I hard reset with root, then my tab will malfunction. So I UNrooted it.
After hard reset I cannot root like before. Kingroot keeps failing to root. When I looked /system/bin and /system/xbin (with es explorer) there is a file named 'su'.
But I cannot get root access. I also cannot root again.
What sholud i do. Any help would be appreciated

alnasnasu said:
Hello
I have recently decided to hard reset my tab. I backs up everything with titanium backup (I had root at that time). But after that I thought if I hard reset with root, then my tab will malfunction. So I UNrooted it.
After hard reset I cannot root like before. Kingroot keeps failing to root. When I looked /system/bin and /system/xbin (with es explorer) there is a file named 'su'.
But I cannot get root access. I also cannot root again.
What sholud i do. Any help would be appreciated
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What tab?

alnasnasu said:
Hello
I have recently decided to hard reset my tab. I backs up everything with titanium backup (I had root at that time). But after that I thought if I hard reset with root, then my tab will malfunction. So I UNrooted it.
After hard reset I cannot root like before. Kingroot keeps failing to root. When I looked /system/bin and /system/xbin (with es explorer) there is a file named 'su'.
But I cannot get root access. I also cannot root again.
What sholud i do. Any help would be appreciated
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You didn't unroot with the correct method, you left the su binaries. You still have the su binaries in system so all you should need now is the root management app, either the kinguser app or the SuperSU app, SuperSU is the better one of the two.
If you have custom recovery you can flash the SuperSU.zip in recovery, then reboot, open SuperSU and update the binaries and that should do it for you.
Or
You can search for the Kinguser APK and try installing it, I recommend SuperSU if you can it to work though, Kinguser doesn't work as well as SuperSU with some of the root apps.
If none of that works, try flashing the stock firmware and then start over from scratch with rooting the device again.
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Droidriven said:
You didn't unroot with the correct method, you left the su binaries. You still have the su binaries in system so all you should need now is the root management app, either the kinguser app or the SuperSU app, SuperSU is the better one of the two.
If you have custom recovery you can flash the SuperSU.zip in recovery, then reboot, open SuperSU and update the binaries and that should do it for you.
Or
You can search for the Kinguser APK and try installing it, I recommend SuperSU if you can it to work though, Kinguser doesn't work as well as SuperSU with some of the root apps.
If none of that works, try flashing the stock firmware and then start over from scratch with rooting the device again.
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Well I used kingroot but I havnt had much progress.
It always stops at some percentage and reboots. After that when I open kingroot, it continues with percent it had stopped and tell root failed.
After doing this some days later I got notification from kingroot "root permission exception. Recommend restore immidietly." (I don't remember correctly).
Note :- I don't have any custom recovery. It always shows my tab is not supported.
My tab is iball slide 3g q7218
Kingroot and kinguser are same. Isntit?

alnasnasu said:
Well I used kingroot but I havnt had much progress.
It always stops at some percentage and reboots. After that when I open kingroot, it continues with percent it had stopped and tell root failed.
After doing this some days later I got notification from kingroot "root permission exception. Recommend restore immidietly." (I don't remember correctly).
Note :- I don't have any custom recovery. It always shows my tab is not supported.
My tab is iball slide 3g q7218
Kingroot and kinguser are same. Isntit?
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Kingroot is the app that roots the device but you should also have an app that manages root permissions called Kinguser which serves the same purpose as Superuser/SuperSU. When you use the Kingroot app, it roots the device by injecting the su binaries in /system/xbin and then it should install Kinguser as your root permission manager.
This is similar to using the other rooting apps to inject su binaries,and then installing SuperSU to use those binaries.
What I'm telling you is using Kingroot isn't going to work because what it does is inject the su binaries in system, you already have the su binaries so Kingroot can't do what it does, that is why it fails.
What I'm telling you is that since you still have the SU binaries, you don't need Kingroot, you need the root management app that uses the su binaries, either the Kinguser(not Kingroot)app or the SuperSU app, preferably SuperSU. This will allow you to once again use your root permissions.
If you can't get Kinguser or SuperSU installed then you'll have to flash your stock firmware to remove the su binaries from system. Then you'll be able to start over with using Kingroot and it should work again.
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Droidriven said:
If you can't get Kinguser or SuperSU installed then you'll have to flash your stock firmware to remove the su binaries from system. Then you'll be able to start over with using Kingroot and it should work again.
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Does installing stock require custom recovery or root or unlocking bootloader or any such things

alnasnasu said:
Does installing stock require custom recovery or root or unlocking bootloader or any such things
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No, to simplify this.
Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
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Droidriven said:
No, to simplify this.
Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
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If I go to stock will I lose any data

alnasnasu said:
If I go to stock will I lose any data
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Probably
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Droidriven said:
Probably
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Give me step by step instructions

alnasnasu said:
Give me step by step instructions
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I just told you to do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
That will find what you need if it's out there.
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I just told you to do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
That will find what you need if it's out there.
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Google search shows nothing based on my device

alnasnasu said:
Google search shows nothing based on my device
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Then do what I said earlier.
Do a Google search for:
"Kinguser APK"
Install that
Or
Do a Google search for:
"SuperSU apk"
Install that
One of them should work, install Kinguser and then convert to SuperSU.
If you want to know how to convert to SuperSU, do a Google search for:
"Convert Kingroot to SuperSU"
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If I go to stock will I lose any data
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Probably
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Hey flashing to stock ROM worked.
I rooted successfully.
But i didnot lose any data from internal storage (although i lost my apps but fortunately i have a backup).
Is it the problem of flashing or is it normal

alnasnasu said:
Hey flashing to stock ROM worked.
I rooted successfully.
But i didnot lose any data from internal storage (although i lost my apps but fortunately i have a backup).
Is it the problem of flashing or is it normal
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It's normal, usually data doesn't get wiped when flashing stock unless the flashed file upgrades/downgrades bootloader, locking/unlocking bootloader usually wipes data also.
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Thanx for the information.
Now should I convert from kinguser to supersu or stay with kinguser itself

alnasnasu said:
Thanx for the information.
Now should I convert from kinguser to supersu or stay with kinguser itself
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Kinguser has issues with some root apps, SuperSU is what you need if you can get it successfully installed, some devices give trouble trying to convert to SuperSU, many of them bootloop after installing SuperSU.
There's a few different ways to get converted, search for them and try the methods that have worked best on your same brand(manufacture) of device.
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